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More camera strangeness

I had a burst of five emails in a row from the camera, not sure if it's when I'd tweaked with the settings or not so no idea if it's working or not. Might try turning off the video attachment see if that's any easier on the email. Found lots of stuff...

Bullet train does London to Ashford in 32 minutes

rail news has the details, that's nice, but when you think about it that's not really all that impressive - the current trains could do it in not much more than that if they didn't stop at all the stations in between. Still, looking forward to it, ho...

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...

Weekend! Curry! Spazzy twitches! Everything!

Great weekend, bailed out of work slightly early and got the train to Mum and Dad's, for a nice long relaxing weekend. As previously mentioned, Clare was in London drinking and dancing with her friends, and definitely not lighting fires, and I was he...

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RE: West is best right now too

well i think generally speaking, the victoria trains tend to go from East - that's the line that goes through faversham. still anyway, it's prob much of a muchness until that high speed link goes in. it's a nice train journey as well - some good sce...

West is best right now too

The wife ideally wants to go to Victoria, but just about anywhere in London is good, and that's good from West. Also the proposed (and I think actually due within the next two years) high speed rail link will be using Canterbury West so that'll shave...

Ooh, we got snow already

Should be quite a slippy slide home tonight. I'm GLAD, Clare is off work sick today, this is sure to affect the trains... If I go out and make a snowman tonight, I'll be sure and post up a picture.

Festive Fun

Welcome back after the christmas break, hope you had a good one. We did, felt a bit quiet though, no big late nights or anything. Kind of handy really, as I'm back in work today, I volunteered to be in on these (hopefully) quiet days between christma...

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Folkestone bullet train trial

A micro-writeup and picture here in the Evening SubStandard on the high speed rail link. Yeah baby, we'll soon be only 63 minutes away from the stinking metropolis.yourshepway.co.uk also has the story here, The site of the Hitachi High Speed Rail dep...

Ooh lightning strike!

No trains from Folkestone for the forseeable, because of a lighting strike over night, we do get all the action here don't we. They can't put on any replacement busses until after the school run as they're all in use. I'm getting a lift in today so I...

I love the smell of salami in the morning

The office is liberally decorated with german sausage this morning, the company just launched a new service selling Europa Parks, tickets and hotels and all that and to celebrate we have a smorgasbord of German food, if that's not a contradiction. Th...

Passengers to be weighed before getting on trains

From This Is London:Train operator Southeastern is linking the suspension of its carriages to a computer system that works out the weight of passengers getting on at each station. Other rail firms are installing laser beams across carriage doors to c...

Hot weekend

Weekend was ace wasn't it? We started with a lunchtime pint with work at a nice pub called The Drum, then a few drinks just the wife and me. Saturday we headed to The Whole World Cafe, and what do you know it was actually open this time? We were a bi...

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Some shopping

Just went to Bluewater to try and get a telly for the kitchen (but no-one wanted to swap, hoho) and a new coat for Clare. BUT, the telly we had seen online didn't look nearly as good in the flesh, and all the others that did were more than we were th...

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"We call those first carriages up the �ghost train� as there is hardly anyone on it this far down the line"

Some stuff about frozen commuter trains... that ghost carriage is the one we normally sit in...

Snow today

Snow overnight, enough to cancel all trains heading out of Folkestone, so Clare had to work from home today. Apart from watching TV and shopping, I seem to have spent most of the day cooking a black bean and sweet potato chilli. And it's not very goo...

Blowin' in the wind

Copy and paste from a chum who made it into London today. I did not, high winds and other adverse weather conditions cancelled all our trains.we're on the 10th floor and the wind up here is nuts! the noise is incredible. I saw several people knocked ...

Happy actual new year

Ours was very good, all went according to plan.Back at work today, seemingly for a one off so got a regular day ticket, that's thirty seven pounds fifty I won't see again. Happy new price rises South Eastern Trains! Plus I needed two goes on the tube...

Party season

It was the christmas party last night of the place I'm freelancing at, and so far nobody's made it in. Couldbe a very quiet day here... I was a bit early today, this morning's train was early, which was freakish. In other freakishly good train relate...

I thought things looked funny from the train last night

Looking out of my window I could see lots of lorries queued up in the dark, I thought it was the entrance to the tunnel but wondered why I'd not noticed it before... Seems the M20 was closed last night, Operation Stack came into effect:Motorists were...

Bonus travel update

Sevenoaks turned into some sort of no go area yesterday, no trains allowed to pass through it at all, this caused carnage on the network from teh afternoon onward. Some people were held up for hours, I was only half an hour late home, but still not t...

Good weekend

Rain seemed to play quite a part... Friday, raced out of work not quite in time to go to the Andrew Davies talk, part of the literary festival, but in good time to get some chips, and eat them in the rain on my way to The Grand Hotel where the talk ...

First day of school

So, my first day back at work after a nice summer off. So far it is just great, there's a free canteen in the building, today I had Chinese vegetables and rice and things, there was also a meaty option of red Thai curry. Now to the downside, they don...

Quiet night in Folkestone

Saturday we went on a bit of tour of Folkestone, just to remind us and our visitor Emma of some of the less salubrious joints in town. We were originally going to head into Hythe and get a curry, but Emma already had a dinner lined up, so decided to ...

History in my day

Another bright and breezy morning, just cool enough to stop me walking down town in just a t-shirt, but warm enough not to stop me walking down town at all. I headed the usual route past the courts and the DSS (all the nice scenic points), to what I�...

Weird traininess thing going on

Got on the train at stupid o'clock as usual this morning to hear an announcement apologising for the late running of the service. Assumed the announcement was the mistake, but NO! Our train had been replaced by a late running earlier number that was ...

Train fun

Got diverted today and had to change trains at Orpington. I really could have done with the sleep as I had a rare London night out and am extra tired today. Drinking in the week confused me, I thought it would be a good idea to stay up and watch the ...

It's hard to tell

Might not be a change of trains, might be like it is now coming from Charing Cross to Folkestone (as I do every day), there's a long wait at Ashford for a connecting service, though no actual changing or splitting of the train.

RE: Including a change of trains

Which means that the HSR isn't coming to Folkestone then, only as far as Ashford? Confusing innit!

Including a change of trains

And a short wait to meet up with another service I reckon... a lot of these numbers are guesses on the part of the journo's I think.

Astoria

Last gig ever! Played some great sets, the gig seemingly got chopped short, we left to the ghostly strains of "We'll Meet Again"... I hope we do.
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