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Hey London tube travellers, Here's a song for you. Only listen to it if you like lots and lots of swearing, and weak b3ta style graphics over a tune you've heard before mind. I'm not really that arsed about the tube strike today as, HEY, I'm well ou...

Fun of London Transport

Cacky journey in today, missed the train, then a passenger alarm shut the Victoria line, a signal failure the Picadilly. AND, there was a drunk guy at the station ticket office, leaning on the counter like it's a bar, bit intimidating really, he seem...

ABC1

Well this new channel looks good doesn't it... all dated American comedy shows and soaps, that's just the sort of new channel we needed! It's an opportunity to see Moonlighting again from the start I suppose.243 was held up today by another motorbike...

Folkestone train times

Folkestone trains are a bit messed up for the whole summer (2005), possibly the next six months. To travel at about the same time, and not have to change trains at Ashford or anything we have to get trains to / from Cannon Street instead of Charing C...

Rugby weekend

JOYOUS journey to Twickenham on Saturday morning, looks like being on the 09.30 from Folkestone, change at Ashford, on the 09.54 to Waterloo and then on the 11.28 to Twickenham, arriving 11.51... Hmm, boring yeah, this is for my calendar though.UPDAT...

This week's transport rubbishness

This week's bad thing was her train from Charing Cross being cancelled last night, so she was 40 mins late home. Poor flower! My journey was fine, except that I was concerned that I was on the wrong train when she didn't meet me at Ashford. I even sp...

I'm a morning person!!!!

Who was that clown on the train this morning - was it you? He was muttering to himself when there was no-one to talk to, and as soon as anyone sat near him hi gibbered and chattered and got them talking too... this disturbed my sleep. If you're on th...

Off to Twickenham today

It's going to take a while to get there (gotta get a bus to Ashford), but not this long I don't think - half hour to walk from Waterloo East to Waterloo?Sure to be that sort of pace on the way home though... Look out for us on the TV!...

Folkestone on popbitch

Not real popbitch (ie the popbitch newsletter), just something someone just posted on the board. I repeat it here for your delectation and delight:Meanwhile, on the last train out of Charing Cross on Saturday night...Your actual Cheryl Baker out of B...

Transport updates

Journey times have been much better since Monday. If I race out of the door here at six, I get a train at Cannon Street that gets me home without changing for eight fifteen. Bit boring travelling on my own, but I'm plodding on with these book, and re...

Quad bike jet ski

Be master of the land and the water with one of these:Kev, this is what you should get, perfect for Miami, or any place where you might want to switch from driving on the road to the water:...

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...

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...

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...

Do you really think DeHaan has made any money on this yet?

He's spent money but is unlikely to have anything other than humungous losses so far I'd have thought.Are you a homeowner in the area? I am, I'm hoping to make some money, damn this property slump, roll on the high speed rail link and the hordes of l...

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...

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...

RE: Anyone care to leave a message in English?

Ok.. the Orient Express trundled into the Harbour station this afternoon, which was a surprise as I was led to believe the final visit was in November 2007?On that subject, the penultimate visit(?) of the Golden Arrow steam train will take place this...

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...

Lost!

Not Lost the TV show, I haven't actually thought about that since watching the fairly rubbish end of series four and writing that subject line. No, actually lost, some people I met yesterday who did not know where they were.My walk from work to the s...

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...

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...

We got snow this morning

Wasn't expecting that at all, looks lovely but not so helpful for our first day back at work of the year. Just seen Clare off to the station, she's shuffling carefully towards her train right now and hoping it's on time. It's apparently not going to ...

Knock on effects of the high speed rail link

853blog talks about knock on effects of the high speed rail link, how when our trains start flying up to Kings Cross instead of their regular old slow route it will free up some track time to enable a reorganisation of the timetable around South Lond...

High Speed Rail Link services from Chartham to London

There will be... none. Chartham is not far from Canterbury, and the existing peak services will continue. It's not so important to us now, a village location would have its own benefits, but here's a round up. Currently there's a choice of three trai...

Heading to London in a bit

Luckily driving as all our trains are cancelled "icy rails" apparently. Got a SCARE when I friend on twitter asked if we were snowed in, wondered how it would affect our journey. But all good, off in a bit, full report on our return.UPDATE: 25 respon...

Rome if you want to

Rome was very nice. As previously mentioned, we had a bit of a time of it getting there, a couple of hours delay caused by problems with a vacuum pump on the plane. Couldn't be fixed (to be fair, I didn't even actually try) so we had to switch trains...

High speed rail link timetables out

New high speed rail timetable released today, slight repost from folkestonegerald.com. Still claiming under an hour from Folkestone to London on the new trains, which are due in December. ...

Transport means from gatwick airport

Hi all!

I am travelling to Folkestone in August, so Iwas wondering which is the cheapest way to get there from Gatwick Airport.
Thanxxxxx in advance!!!

Gloria

RE: Transport means from gatwick airport

We generally do the train, I think coaches might be tricky... train up to London Bridge (not the express, that will be more expensive) and then down to Folkestone, OR you can go via Redhill and Tonbridge - might be cheaper as you are avoiding London....