On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at 16:01:51
on Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Tom Anderson remarked:
Brentwood is the first station in Essex on that line, as I recall.

Correct. And as the only station in Essex which wouldn't have fast trains
to Stratford [1], they would be particularly hard done by.

That's the current situation I think.

[1] This is probably not true.

Wildly untrue. None of the stations between Shenfield and Southend have
fast trains to London, for example.

Really? The next train to leave Prittlewell, the 2048, calls all stops to
Shenfield, then Romford, Stratford and Liverpool Street, taking 16 minutes
to get from Shenfield to Stratford - which i'd consider fast. Would you
not? Perhaps you'd call this semi-fast? This illustrates the
terminological difficulties we recently touched on in another thread!

tom

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