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Something to push my desperate ticket touting from the top of the blog

Terrible day of trains yesteray, have been training it in most of the week as my friend and neighbour who gives me a lift in has been off. Yesterday, morning train in CANCELLED! Started walking to look for a bus with a fellow commuter, and luckily we...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

Trains and IPODs

Our train ground to a halt this morning at Orpington, and had to be rebooted. That's the most interesting non-TV thing to have happened so far this week. I am still aching a bit from Sunday's gardening. Looking forward to a restful weekend... OH NO!J...

Trains, tubes, and flats.

Turd of a journey in this morning, the Victoria line is out completely, which meant the train in was rammed, then Liverpool Street was closed for overcrowding as also the Central line was out... also because the Northern line is now "fixed" the journ...

Trains are not so good today...

Heading down to Folkestone after work, will skip lunch to get out early...Been sent details for a dead cheap flat, surely too small, and a modern town house type affair, probably also too small, but it has an integral garage, might be worth a look......

`Tommy' from Trainspotting

He was strolling along looking all actorly and ginger. Not exatcly a world beating celeb spot, but hey, if `the fat ginger out of the phones for you ad' qualifies, then the smack addicted ginger from Edinborough qualifies too...Edited by eggnog (1168...

I Like Trains and The Death of Liberal England

I Like Trains

i liKE TRAiNS

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I Like Trains

Ramp, i liKE TRAiNS, Electric Guilt Trip, LUNA RAI, Simon Fagan, Joe Sparks

Suede

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.
Rated 5.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald