In message , at 17:54:01 on
Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Paul Scott remarked:
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!

Good opportunity to raise questions about through journeys then.

Arriving at St Pancras clutching your Tamworth to Canterbury via London
ticket.
Will it still be marked 'any permitted'? Probably, until December.

Wander over to the Kent platforms looking to pay a single supplement,

No supplement should be required for an "any permitted" ticket, although
perhaps HS1 isn't in the routing guide yet, so maybe it's a lacuna.

intention to walk from Ebbsfleet for a connection (assuming there is one).
Will there be yet another ticket office at St P? That has never been
categorically answered, to my mind.

There's no floorspace for one, as far as anyone can tell. Maybe it'll
share the strangely named "UK Rail" one operated by EMT.

Will there be a refund of the part of your fare that pays for that cross
London transfer by tube, now that you don't need it?

No, because there never has been before. All it does is add a leg on the
tube *if* your route needs one.

Probably not, but eventually a through ticket by HS1 shouldn't need
it,

Although last time I looked Tamworth services didn't arrive at St
Pancras, or was the OP travelling via Leicester?

so there could be a slight reduction - but then it would have to be
marked 'not underground'

I think you mean "without a Maltese Cross".
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Roland Perry