Anyone heard this?

How come Her Maj opened the station TWO YEARS AGO and it's been empty
and unused ever since?

Is it true Ashford complained so much that Stratford's opening has
been put back to 2010 at least?

Post substantiated fact/ wild unfounded rumours here please.

On Oct 10, 2:04 pm, spindrift wrote:
Anyone heard this?

How come Her Maj opened the station TWO YEARS AGO and it's been empty
and unused ever since?

Is it true Ashford complained so much that Stratford's opening has
been put back to 2010 at least?

Post substantiated fact/ wild unfounded rumours here please.


I heard it's because that's where Diana and Dodi are secretly living.

Jonn

"spindrift" wrote in message
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Anyone heard this?

How come Her Maj opened the station TWO YEARS AGO

Did she? ITYF it was completed only last year.

and it's been empty and unused ever since?

Hardly surprising - it couldn't have been used before November this year
when the trains actually start running?

Is it true Ashford complained so much that Stratford's opening has
been put back to 2010 at least?

No - It's because Stratford Station is in the middle of building site until
at least 2010. Unless anyone knows different, the Stratford City
development hasn't commenced yet?

What's so wrong with building the infrastructure first anyway? People would
soon complain if it was the other way round, which is usualy the case in
this country..

Paul

On 10 Oct, 14:26, "Paul Scott" wrote:
"spindrift" wrote in message

oups.com...

Anyone heard this?

How come Her Maj opened the station TWO YEARS AGO

Did she? ITYF it was completed only last year.

and it's been empty and unused ever since?

Hardly surprising - it couldn't have been used before November this year
when the trains actually start running?

Is it true Ashford complained so much that Stratford's opening has
been put back to 2010 at least?

No - It's because Stratford Station is in the middle of building site until
at least 2010. Unless anyone knows different, the Stratford City
development hasn't commenced yet?

What's so wrong with building the infrastructure first anyway? People would
soon complain if it was the other way round, which is usualy the case in
this country..

Paul

Thanks Paul.

I understood originally it was planned that Stratford International
opened this year....

On 10 Oct, 14:45, spindrift wrote:
Hardly surprising - it couldn't have been used before November this year
when the trains actually start running?

Is it true Ashford complained so much that Stratford's opening has
been put back to 2010 at least?

No - It's because Stratford Station is in the middle of building site until
at least 2010. Unless anyone knows different, the Stratford City
development hasn't commenced yet?

What's so wrong with building the infrastructure first anyway? People would
soon complain if it was the other way round, which is usualy the case in
this country..

I understood originally it was planned that Stratford International
opened this year...

No - well, not since a very long time ago. The station is literally in
the middle of a building site at the moment - there is no access to it
by road, conventional rail, Tube or DLR.

It will open once the DLR is connected, probably for Javelin at first
(I'm assuming the sensible plan of referring to the whole CTRL
Domestic service as Javelin, rather than merely the month of Olympic
shuttles, is ultimately adopted).

E*s are likely to begin to stop - dependent on demand, timetabling and
the success of Ebbsfleet -once the surrounding area actually contains
buildings and people, and once the site is accessible by foot and
road.

--
John Band
john at johnband dot org
www.johnband.org

On Oct 10, 2:54 pm, John B wrote:
E*s are likely to begin to stop - dependent on demand, timetabling and
the success of Ebbsfleet -once the surrounding area actually contains
buildings and people, and once the site is accessible by foot and
road.

Can't see that being too popular. The service has been speeded up with
a new line only to be slowed down again with an extra station stop.
Seems a bit farcical to me anyway having an international service
calling at a station only 4 miles from where it started (could you
ever imagine the french building a new TGV stop in the Paris
suburbs?). Best left to the local services.

B2003

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, wrote:

On Oct 10, 2:04 pm, spindrift wrote:

Post substantiated fact/ wild unfounded rumours here please.

I heard it's because that's where Diana and Dodi are secretly living.

ITYF that the reason is that while Lord Lucan was digging out the station
box, he unearthed the Holy Grail (which has been long guarded by a line of
hackney carriage drivers descended from Joseph of Arimathea), and they're
still waiting for the boys at Rhydymwyn Valley to send down a train from
the S******** R****** to move it to Corsham for safe keeping.

That's why so much attention has been put into rail schemes around
Stratford of late, of course - it's nothing to do with this alleged
passenger demand (on the NLL and DLR? come off it!), it's a plan
masterminded by the masonic adepts of the Corporation of London to
construct a vast steel sigil to harness the Grail's occult power, focus it
on the London Omphalos in Mudchute [1], and thus immanentise the eschaton.
Why on earth do you think it's called Cross Rail?

At least, that's what it says on CULG.

tom

[1] http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl...&t=k&z=19&om=1

--
NO REAL THAN YOU ARE -- The Zandvoort Man

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, John B wrote:

(I'm assuming the sensible plan of referring to the whole CTRL Domestic
service as Javelin, rather than merely the month of Olympic shuttles, is
ultimately adopted).

Anglostar!

tom

--
NO REAL THAN YOU ARE -- The Zandvoort Man

"Boltar" wrote in message
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On Oct 10, 2:54 pm, John B wrote:
E*s are likely to begin to stop - dependent on demand, timetabling and
the success of Ebbsfleet -once the surrounding area actually contains
buildings and people, and once the site is accessible by foot and
road.

Can't see that being too popular. The service has been speeded up with
a new line only to be slowed down again with an extra station stop.
Seems a bit farcical to me anyway having an international service
calling at a station only 4 miles from where it started (could you
ever imagine the french building a new TGV stop in the Paris
suburbs?). Best left to the local services.


They could make Stratford a request stop for Eurostars... ;-)

Paul

On 10 Oct, 14:54, John B wrote:

(snip)

(I'm assuming the sensible plan of referring to the whole CTRL
Domestic service as Javelin, rather than merely the month of Olympic
shuttles, is ultimately adopted).

(snip)

Who's plan is that - yours?

I reckon the Southeastern marketing team might well have a different
idea.