On 30 Jan, 14:16, Tom Anderson wrote:

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Mizter T wrote:
What will be the case is that those who regularly make use of the Kent
high-speed service to get into London will find that it won't be running
at all during that fortnight (or however long i will be).

Hang on, hang on. There will be nothing but Javelins stopping at Stratford
North, we know that, but is it the case that there won't be anything else
just passing through? Is it not the case that the Kentstars will be
running non-stop from Ebbsfleet to St Pancras? Do we know this for sure?


Eurostars will be passing through non-stop, of course. The
'Kentstars' [1] aka the class 395 train sets for the Kent high-speed
service are all going to be busy being employed to run the very high-
frequency Olympic Javelin service between St. Pancras - Stratford
Int'l - Ebbsfleet. This was *always* the plan - there will be no Kent
high-speed service for this time. Appropriate high-speed trains cannot
be magicked out of thin air.


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[1] 'Kentstars' are potentially a horrendously misleading moniker
given the existence of Bombardier's Electrostar and Turbostar family
of trains and also the (apparently informal) nickname that's given to
the new class 378 Electrostar trains for London Overground of
'Capitalstar'.