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07:24:46 on Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Mizter T remarked:

Ashford is a run-down provincial town (sorry, but that's the
reality), and I can't see why people would want to travel from there
to London and back on a premium service outside commuter hours.

Though come the full service there will be 2tph off-peak from Ashford
into London.

Because that's what they had to promise.

And Ashford could also perhaps provide a P&R style
offering for those in the surrounding area, areas of which at least
are quite affluent. Also, I don't know Ashford at all well but
wikipedia pointed me in the way of this Channel 4 survey where they
judged it the fourth best place to live in the UK! See:
http://tinyurl.com/C4-best-places-to-live-05

They have very strange criteria. In any event I worked in Ashford for a
few months, and it's not as hot as they suggest. Maybe they are thinking
about some of the surrounding villages?

does anyone know what catering they *are* providing on these trains?

None - or rather I should so I'm not sure there us going to be any, at
least I haven't heard of anything.

Not even a trolley?

--
Roland Perry