"Mizter T" wrote ...
Let's face it, if they really cared about individual passengers, they
wouldn't have invented Ebbsfleet at all, and they'd have kept Waterloo
International open (as, for years, they promised they would).
How do you figure that with regards to Ebbsfleet?

Assuming Waterloo Intl. was still open, and Ebbsfleet did not exist, who
would be saying "Hey, we need another huge station right around half a mile
from Northfleet"?

No-one, so far as I can see. All the Kentish folk could as easily get to
Ashford (just as they are now being told "You can as easily get to
Ebbsfleet").

And all the London folk could take public transport to W'Loo, St.P, Strtf;
How very green of them.

I remember thinking, when first heard of Ebbsfleet "Where The H___ did that
come from?".

Question never got properly answered; especially as Ebbsfleet International
is at Northfleet, while Ebbsfleet is in Thanet.

It's loopy, and a trick to serve M25 folk who should (and could) be taking
the train.

Granted, it'll be handy to get from StP to Northfleet to watch Ebbsfleet(!)
play football - else it's pretty pointless.
--

Andrew

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Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut." ~ Albert Einstein