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    A little bit in advance, but
    http://www.southeasternrailway.co.uk/news/latest-news/southeastern-consults-on-changes-to-timetable-in-december-2014/

    Southeastern has released its draft proposal for the service specification throughout the London Bridge station rebuild from January 2015.

    The London Bridge rebuild is the final stage of the £6.5 billion Thameslink Programme which will also see new brand new track layout and signalling leading to the station. To allow the work to take place, from January 2015, Charing Cross services will not be able to stop at London Bridge until August 2016, and then Cannon Street services won't stop until early 2018

    see link & pdf at the end of the link for the rest.

    Some local references:

    An off-peak all day high speed service from Deal, Sandwich, Martin Mill and Walmer as part of a circular service connecting Faversham, Ramsgate and Dover Priory. This gives faster journey times to London, direct services via Faversham and Dover to London and gives Birchington-on-Sea, Herne Bay and Whitstable an all-day high speed service.

    This service will replace the existing lightly-used off-peak mainline service, meaning passengers from Martin Mill, Walmer, Deal and Sandwich wishing to travel to London and not wanting to go to St. Pancras will need to change at Ashford (for Charing Cross) or Rochester (for Victoria).

    In order to moderate the financial impact of replacing a classic service with Highspeed, we have proposed to create a route-based price mechanism which will ensure that passengers from these four stations will not pay a premium when travelling to St Pancras via Faversham in the off-peak. This change in fares structure would be subject to approval from the Department for Transport.

    Mainline trains will no longer be 'coupled' (splitting and joining) at Faversham and Ashford.

    Reduction in off-peak services to Westenhanger and Sandling to one train per hour as per the current Saturday service.

    Victoria to Gillingham services are extended to Dover Priory.

    There will no longer be a fast service from Dover to Victoria. One train will be all stations to Faversham then semi fast to Victoria, the other service will be fast to Faversham (calling at Canterbury East) then a slow service to Victoria.


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