On 14 Aug, 10:51, TimB wrote:
On Aug 13, 11:13 pm, "REDSKINS" wrote:





"tim....." wrote in message

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"plcd1" wrote in message
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South Eastern have bitten the bullet and are expanding the HS service.
There are extra peak trips and limited services beyond Ashford
commence on 7th September 2009. There's also one off peak return to
Ashford which doesn't look terribly useful. No weekend services :-(

I wonder if when they do introduce the weekend service they ought to drop
the premium fare for a while to encourage the locals to try it!

tim

The problem is there are too many engineering works on at the weekends to
enable a robust service to be put into place

L

I seem to recall that some of this engineering is in fact provision
for the HS service eg making it possible to evacuate in tunnels etc.
* Tim

But that work (in the tunnels between Folkestone and Dover) is
underway at the moment with the line closed 25th July - 30th August.
Without this, the expanded HS preview service wouldn't be able to
reach Dover and the timing for the completion of the work is almost
certainly the reason that the Dover trains start on 7th September!!