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Author: spindriftspindrift Date: Oct 10, 2007 06:04
Anyone heard this?
How come Her Maj opened the station TWO YEARS AGO and it's been empty
and unused ever since?
Is it true Ashford complained so much that Stratford's opening has
been put back to 2010 at least?
Post substantiated fact/ wild unfounded rumours here please.
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Date: Oct 10, 2007 06:06
On Oct 10, 2:04 pm, spindrift hotmail.com> wrote:> Anyone heard this?
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> How come Her Maj opened the station TWO YEARS AGO and it's been empty
> and unused ever since?
>
> Is it true Ashford complained so much that Stratford's opening has
> been put back to 2010 at least?
>
> Post substantiated fact/ wild unfounded rumours here please.
>
I heard it's because that's where Diana and Dodi are secretly living.
Jonn
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Author: Paul ScottPaul Scott Date: Oct 10, 2007 06:26
> Anyone heard this?
>
> How come Her Maj opened the station TWO YEARS AGO
Did she? ITYF it was completed only last year.
> and it's been empty and unused ever since?
Hardly surprising - it couldn't have been used before November this year
when the trains actually start running?
> Is it true Ashford complained so much that Stratford's opening has
> been put back to 2010 at least?
No - It's because Stratford Station is in the middle of building site until
at least 2010. Unless anyone knows different, the Stratford City
development hasn't commenced yet?
What's so wrong with building the infrastructure first anyway? People would
soon complain if it was the other way round, which is usualy the case in
this country..
Paul
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Author: spindriftspindrift Date: Oct 10, 2007 06:45
On 10 Oct, 14:26, "Paul Scott" btinternet.com> wrote:>> Anyone heard this?
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>> How come Her Maj opened the station TWO YEARS AGO
>
> Did she? ITYF it was completed only last year.
>
>> and it's been empty and unused ever since?
>
> Hardly surprising - it couldn't have been used before November this year
> when the trains actually start running?
>
>> Is it true Ashford complained so much that Stratford's opening has
>> been put back to 2010 at least?
>
> No - It's because Stratford Station is in the middle of building site until ...
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Author: John BJohn B Date: Oct 10, 2007 06:54
On 10 Oct, 14:45, spindrift hotmail.com> wrote:>> Hardly surprising - it couldn't have been used before November this year
>> when the trains actually start running?
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>>> Is it true Ashford complained so much that Stratford's opening has
>>> been put back to 2010 at least?
>
>> No - It's because Stratford Station is in the middle of building site until
>> at least 2010. Unless anyone knows different, the Stratford City
>> development hasn't commenced yet?
>
>> What's so wrong with building the infrastructure first anyway? People would
>> soon complain if it was the other way round, which is usualy the case in
>> this country..
>
> I understood originally it was planned that Stratford International
> opened this year...
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Author: BoltarBoltar Date: Oct 10, 2007 08:56
On Oct 10, 2:54 pm, John B johnband.org> wrote:> E*s are likely to begin to stop - dependent on demand, timetabling and
> the success of Ebbsfleet -once the surrounding area actually contains
> buildings and people, and once the site is accessible by foot and
> road.
Can't see that being too popular. The service has been speeded up with
a new line only to be slowed down again with an extra station stop.
Seems a bit farcical to me anyway having an international service
calling at a station only 4 miles from where it started (could you
ever imagine the french building a new TGV stop in the Paris
suburbs?). Best left to the local services.
B2003
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Author: Tom AndersonTom Anderson Date: Oct 10, 2007 10:11
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, unrealpolitik@ gmail.com wrote:
> On Oct 10, 2:04 pm, spindrift hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> Post substantiated fact/ wild unfounded rumours here please.
>
> I heard it's because that's where Diana and Dodi are secretly living.
ITYF that the reason is that while Lord Lucan was digging out the station
box, he unearthed the Holy Grail (which has been long guarded by a line of
hackney carriage drivers descended from Joseph of Arimathea), and they're
still waiting for the boys at Rhydymwyn Valley to send down a train from
the S******** R****** to move it to Corsham for safe keeping.
That's why so much attention has been put into rail schemes around
Stratford of late, of course - it's nothing to do with this alleged
passenger demand (on the NLL and DLR? come off it!), it's a plan
masterminded by the masonic adepts of the Corporation of London to
construct a vast steel sigil to harness the Grail's occult power, focus it
on the London Omphalos in Mudchute [1], and thus immanentise the eschaton.
Why on earth do you think it's called Cross Rail?
At least, that's what it says on CULG.
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Author: Tom AndersonTom Anderson Date: Oct 10, 2007 10:11
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, John B wrote:
> (I'm assuming the sensible plan of referring to the whole CTRL Domestic
> service as Javelin, rather than merely the month of Olympic shuttles, is
> ultimately adopted).
Anglostar!
tom
--
NO REAL THAN YOU ARE -- The Zandvoort Man
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Author: Paul ScottPaul Scott Date: Oct 10, 2007 10:14
> On Oct 10, 2:54 pm, John B johnband.org> wrote:>> E*s are likely to begin to stop - dependent on demand, timetabling and
>> the success of Ebbsfleet -once the surrounding area actually contains
>> buildings and people, and once the site is accessible by foot and
>> road.
>
> Can't see that being too popular. The service has been speeded up with
> a new line only to be slowed down again with an extra station stop.
> Seems a bit farcical to me anyway having an international service
> calling at a station only 4 miles from where it started (could you
> ever imagine the french building a new TGV stop in the Paris
> suburbs?). Best left to the local services.
>
They could make Stratford a request stop for Eurostars... ;-)
Paul
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Author: Mizter TMizter T Date: Oct 10, 2007 10:49
On 10 Oct, 14:54, John B johnband.org> wrote:>
> (snip)
>
> (I'm assuming the sensible plan of referring to the whole CTRL
> Domestic service as Javelin, rather than merely the month of Olympic
> shuttles, is ultimately adopted).
>
> (snip)
Who's plan is that - yours?
I reckon the Southeastern marketing team might well have a different
idea.
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