On 29 Jan, 16:38, Paul Terry wrote:

In message , Paul Terry
writes

http://www.southeastern2009.co.uk/index.php/highspeed

No mention of Eurostar transfer at Stratford ...

And, following up my own post, SouthEastern's 2009 route map on that
same site marks their only Eurostar interchanges as St Pancras,
Ebbsfleet and Ashford.


Though that is the *2009* route map, it doesn't mean it will be the
case forevermore. The SE high-speed trains will apparently stop at
Stratford Int'l from day one of the service in December, but Stratford
Int'l won't exactly be an ideal destination by then - it'll be in the
middle of a building site, the DLR extension isn't due to open until
mid-2010 (it could be finished early, but I'd wager it won't be ready
*that* early), and AIUI passengers will be ferried between Stratford
Int'l and the bus station at Stratford Regional by minibus. If
Eurostar did ever wish/ were ever made to stop their trains at
Stratford Int'l, they certainly wouldn't do so until the station was
no longer in the midst of a building site, or at least until it had
proper road access - and I think the main road access will be to the
west, off Waterden Road (currently inaccessible within the closed off
Olympic Park site).

Indeed I dare say that it may not be considered appropriate to stop
Eurostar trains at Stratford until after the Olympics are finished.