"Mizter T" wrote in message
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Today is the last day of Eurostar trains traversing the tracks of
south London heading for Waterloo, as tomorrow they'll switch to using
the new, boring route through the new CTRL tunnels underneath east
London (apols for rolling that pun out for the hundredth time). I felt
a little ode to their passing - or indeed imminent lack of passing -
was in order.

The new route will no longer afford arriving passengers a window,
however brief and partial it may be, across London. So Eurostar
passengers will be denied any glimpse of the metropolis into which
they are arriving until they emerge just before St. Pancras station
(where they'll get a good vie of a cement works!).


Excellent journalism snipped.

You should apply to the BBC. In their well researched article about the move
I found:
"Waterloo's award-winning terminal is expected to be used to take the burden
off existing services to Surrey."
Compared to the DfT view reported lower down in the same article:
"We're also looking at how Waterloo can be used to expand capacity right
across the South Western franchise."
They don't see very far from their Ivory Towers do they...

Paul S