Re: Dungeness Nuclear Train


"asdf" <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On 31 Aug 2005 06:18:02 -0700, richard_thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>>I didn't know there used to be an Inter-City from Folkestone to
>>Liverpool/Manchester - I thought that there were only ever trains
>>to/from London.
>>
>>When/why did it stop,
>
> Because of the rise of air travel, making long train+ferry journeys
> unnecessary?
>
>>and are there any prospects of anything similar in the future?
>
> With the Regional Eurostar idea squashed, not really.
The impression I got was that these services were used as a means of getting
to the South Coast resorts, rather than as a means of onward travel by boat.
Certainly, my in-laws used them to travel from Stoke down to East Kent, as
it avoided the trek across London. Wish they still ran, as I've got to do
that trek tomorrow.
Must have been an operating nightmare, though, with crews and stock working
so far away from their normal bases.
The runs to Dover stopped once the train ferry stopped, as there was no
longer a shunter to release the train locomotive. The service was then
diverted to Ramsgate, more-or-less when Virgin took over Cross-Country,
becoming a summer-dated service, before petering out altogether at the end
of the 1990s.
Brian


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