David Hansen wrote:

AOL. The difference in journey times will be dramatic. It seems to
take all day to get from London to Ashford by trains to Dover, but
it is a different thing altogether by trains going to Paris and
Brussels. I imagine lots of people will pay the premium, including
people who didn't use the train before. The difference in running
time caused by 140mph running seems to be less than 10 minutes from
a quick skim of the press release.

As someone who used to regularly travel by train from Canterbury to the
Midlands (Tamworth), the much easier (i.e. Tube-free!) walk from St
Pancras to Euston would have been a godsend. And if it was raining then
I could just as easily have changed at St Pancras to Derby and thence to
Tamworth.

I guess with a 60-minute service from Canterbury to St Pancras and using
one of the few 60-minute services to Tamworth, it could be possible to
do the whole journey in 2.5 hours at a push!

Jonathan