Re: Dungeness Nuclear Train

richard_thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

This is what frustrates me with living in Kent - if I want to go
anywhere (unless I want to go to France) I have to go into London and
change. It might not seem like it but Kent's actually very cut-off. You
can't go North/East/South as it's just water, and if you want to go
West (in order to go anywhere in the UK) then you have to into London
first. My fault for living in Kent, of course :)

Agreed about it taking a long to get anywhere other than London from Kent! It takes me about 2.5 hours to do the first 70 miles from Canterbury to Euston. Then the next 120 miles takes 80 minutes back home to Tamworth! If London wasn't in the way, I might have been able to get home in just over 2 hours.

If such a service were to be reinstated, which TOC would be most likely
to run it? Virgin because it's on that axis, or whoever runs the new
Integrated Kent Franchise?

Well, if you can wait until the IKF kicks off in 20XX, then you'll be able to get to St. Pancras where both Kings Cross and Euston are just a short walk away.

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