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Folkestone Central and Folkestone West to get high speed trains (but not Sandling)

This info from this week's KM Extra free sheet, but has been made public by Southeastern Trains. I did wonder just how fast the high speed service could be if it stopped at all the little stations along the way.No mention of the services from Central...

Short weekend

Where did that go then? I'm sure I was only at work an hour or so ago and now it's time to go back again... Tired today, had quite an action packed weekend that just went too fast. Started off with work drinks in Trashford, a couple in the Phoenix (S...

Folkestone on TV

Well, Sandgate anyway. Shornecliffe Redoubt was on this week's Time Team, and they found precisely none of what they were looking for... they did stop for a pint in The Ship though.Grand weekend, after the rugby and an early dinner we went on a bit o...

Rated 6.03/10 on Folkestone Gerald

All information seems to be it will stop at both

The mock up timetable that was distributed showed it stopping at Central, West, Sandling and Ashford, with Folkestone West renamed as "Folkestone Parkway". Not sure who would have a definitive answer though...

Last thing we heard

was from a leaflet given out at the station, a mockup of a timetable that listed Folkestone Central, Folkestone West (renamed Folkestone Parkway), Sandling, Ashford, then on to somewhere like Ebbsfleet, Stratford and London Kings Cross... I posted th...

Weddingtastic weekender

Might mighty wedding fun at the weekend, but I'm KNACKERED now... Headed back in to London Saturday morning for the wedding of Ralph and Linda at The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA for short), just off The S...

Too hungover to weblog yesterday

Feeling fresher today just about, let me get my gripe of the day out of the way first though. Today's train had the most annoying conductor on it, he just LOVED the sound of his own voice and I think he thought he was Bruce Forsyth, he announced ever...

What was I going to say?

Was busy when I came in this morning so I have forgotten the things I had lined up for today's "entry". Perhaps it was a gripe about the quality of signal from our new sky freesat box - it was far worse than the signal we're getting via the inbuilt f...

High speed rail link confirmed (again)

I thought this high speed link to Folkestone was already confirmed? A chum in the world of news just sent this:The SRA announced that the following stations will be served by high-speed CTRL domestic services: Ramsgate, Minster, Sturry, Canterbury We...

No more 106

In an attempt to make this less boring, I'll not be mentioning the 106 bus for at least a week. I was going to post up a picture of how someone had hacksawed away a part of the luggage rack on a train, but I think that would only have reinforced the ...

Rated 6.02/10 on Folkestone Gerald