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    All on the links above, Scotchie. Folkestone West 49 minutes, Folkestone Central 52 minutes, Dover Priory 64 minutes.

    All the time saving using the high speed trains is of course on the run down from St.Pancras to Ashford on the High Speed 1 (HS1) line, the new name for the CTRL, where they can achieve their maximum speed of 140mph giving a journey time of 37 minutes. At Ashford, they leave HS1 and trundle down the classic line to Dover so the speeds are the same as the classic trains.

    Where the new time saving has come from has to be from eliminating the time spent at Ashford. The trains will split there to go to Ramsgate or Dover. They were postulating an incredible ten or twelve minutes to divide the train.

    Possibly this refers to trains proceeding direct from London to Dover and may only apply to the rush hour with off-peak trains continuing to divide at Ashford as before. Dunno.

    Whatever, this improves the prospects for the high speed train. The jury is still out as to whether it will prove a success. Most current train passengers are commuters who want to go to the established terminii where they can walk to work. Going to St.Pancras in North London requires an additional tube journey which negates the time saving and costs more for the HS1 supplement and the tube fare.

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