On Jan 23, 4:01*pm, Mizter T wrote:
On 23 Jan, 14:59, Andy wrote:





On Jan 23, 2:22*pm, Mizter T wrote:

On Jan 23, 10:50*am, Andy wrote:
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The past goes back to the early - mid 1990s, when there were Down
trains sent that way as well as Up. I don't know the last year that
scheduled services used the Down route.

See my reply to MIG - a couple of trains were I believe scheduled to
do this until recently, but apparently hardly ever actually did do so
in reality.

They were much more reliable when the conflicting trains were
Eurostars (the 19.13 and 19.43 from Waterloo), but once the Eurostars
disappeared in November 2007, there was less need. Most of the reports
on gensheet were after Eurostar finished.

I don't understand that - if the (theoretical) need for them to use
the Down Stewarts Lane line was conflicting Eurostars, why were there
more reports of trains actually it after Nov '07 when the Eurostars
weren't around any more?


PSUL also listed conflicts with the 19.18 and 19.48 Victoria - Ashford
International services which continued after Eurostar ended. Of course
these South Eastern trains would cause much less of a conflict, being
considerably shorter, but there would still be the potential depending
on which platforms and tracks were used by the relevant services.