High Speed Rail plans - cause for concern?

• Guest 664

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  11 March 2014     12:11262074
  #1      
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-26520138
  
  How long will this loop from Dover to Faversham take? If it is a shuttle, great - if journeys from here to London are taking that route then it will not be much shorter than the classic service.
  
  At a rough estimate it must take at least 50 minutes from Dover to Faversham, even by High Speed, and then over an hour from Faversham to London.
  
  Not a minute on the journey I say - and in fact we should be doing all we can to drive it down below an hour.
• Karlos

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 1 Oct 2012
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  11 March 2014     13:02262083
  #2      
  I think that the trains would be travelling the other way around - St Pancras to Faversham services extending through Deal, etc to Dover Priory.
  
  
  Details of the consultation in this thread https://www.dover.uk.com/forums/dover-forum/southeastern-trains-changes-from-december-2014
• Guest 664

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  12 March 2014     21:25262156
  #3      
  Thanks Karlos. A prominent forumite, and regular rail traveller told me this evening that the loop is not running on to London and our times to London will be unaffected.
  
  I will see what the staff at Dover Priory have to say when I am next there.
• Guest 705

  • Registered: 23 Sep 2010
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  14 March 2014     01:00262240
  #4      
  Well there is still the western route via Folkestone and Ashford. Don't give up on it.Network Rail should be doing the right thing and repairing the Warren formation- or at least preparing to if it starts to move again. Apparently Network Rail are under great pressure to close Folkestone Central Station. Now this would give Dover a few more minutes nearer the hour on the high speed. An hour and fifty minutes is no good to man nor beast. How can that possibly assist wit Dover's well deserved regeneration? Forget the spur-spend the money on the Warren. Network Rail is as good as Nationalised now with the government agreeing to take on their massive debt-so they'll be awash with cash for this sort of community thing anyway. The North Eastern Route to Newcastle is as good as nationalised and making a profit. Perhaps the the Coalition might get round to noticing this and cash in on this new profitable nationalisation thing. Funny how the railways were privatised under the premise of curtailing waste - ironically it seems that we now have to re- nationalise to get the same effect.
  Never give up...