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    The current timetabled journey from Dover during the peak is 68 minutes -this includes

    stopping at Folkestone Central and waiting there for a minimum of 3 minutes
    stopping at Folkestone West and waiting for at least 2 minutes
    stopping at Ashford and waiting for a minimum of 8 minutes
    the journey from Ashford to St Pancras takes 36 minutes yet on the test runs they were able to complete this in 22 minutes


    clearly there is plenty of slack in the timetable

    There is no reason that they could not get the Dover to London journey time down below the magic hour if they wanted to - to be fair southeastern have agreed to reduce the lay times at intermediate stations and take account of the track layout improvements at Dover (this has doubled the speed limit round the old Harbour Station curve) in the next timetable which should reduce the journey time to around 63 minutes

    Dropping one of the Folkestone stops would then get the journey time down to 60 minutes or alternatively increasing the speed they run the trains at from Ashford would achieve the same thing

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