TP writes:

That is the reason why I suggested a regular Waterloo-Ashford service
using former Eurostar paths and connecting with Eurostar trains at
Ashford International. I think that is the only way Eurostar can hope
to retain this large and affluent customer base.

I still can't see what's wrong with taking the new super-glamorous
Jubilee line extension from Waterloo to the new super-glamorous
Eurostar station at Stratford. It'll only be a few stops, is 4
billion quid's worth of underground line too downmarket for this
affluent customer base or something?
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-- Chris.

wrote:

TP writes:

That is the reason why I suggested a regular Waterloo-Ashford service
using former Eurostar paths and connecting with Eurostar trains at
Ashford International. I think that is the only way Eurostar can hope
to retain this large and affluent customer base.

I still can't see what's wrong with taking the new super-glamorous
Jubilee line extension from Waterloo to the new super-glamorous
Eurostar station at Stratford. It'll only be a few stops, is 4
billion quid's worth of underground line too downmarket for this
affluent customer base or something?


This is a journey leg that would simply not be needed if Waterloo
International remained open. What it cost is irrelevant. The trains
are still cramped and toylike and there is still a need to lug baggage
up and down LUL escalators and on and off the tube train, none of
which is required now.

By comparison, changing from an SWT service to Eurostar at Waterloo
would be sheer pleasure.

wrote:

I still can't see what's wrong with taking the new super-glamorous
Jubilee line extension from Waterloo to the new super-glamorous
Eurostar station at Stratford.


The stations on the Jubilee Line extension might be cathedral-like,
and their architecture might even merit the term "super-glamorous",
but the trains are still the same tiny, cramped, hot little scale
models of real trains that the Tube provides.

I am always amazed at the contrast between the architecture for this
line, which is magnificent in its scope, shape, form and detail, and
the tiny little trains that serve such glorious stops.