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Old June 2nd 09, 11:00 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default SouthEastern HS1 Trial Service Finally Announced

In message , at
10:34:01 on Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Sam Wilson remarked:
In light of the comment that all first class ticket holders can travel
on the Preview service at no extra charge, ...


Let's get this right. There's an all-standard-class service for which
standard class ticket holders pay a premium and first class ticket
holders don't. Sounds like an all-first-class service to me.


It's more complicated than that - eventually it'll be one of the normal
"any permitted" route to get to Kent, but more expensive. The current
route will be "not HS1" and without the uplift. The "First Class tickets
accepted" thing seems to be a kludge to paper over the cracks while
there's a premium to pay.
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Roland Perry