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DarloRich
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Just registered myself... What all will be happening on the day?
DarloRich
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travel to and from Ebbsfleet , lots of standing about, getting on and off, etc I would imagine
Lampshade
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Hmm, interesting.
heart-of-wessex
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I take it as testing out the facilities to see if it will work with loads of people turning up. I have registered, but I thought there was a selection process maybe, but it says I should receive the ticket in the e-mail, I was worried that being 100miles away they would turn it away due to the cost of travel they would be paying out...no?
I reckon they'd want as many as they could get within reason (bear in mind that outside of the rail enthusiast community, I would have thought public interest for this would be relatively low) - so are happy to issue tickets to as many as possible. Presumably they do have a limit where, if reached, they will stop issuing tickets however - but I don't expect that to be needed.
One query I have is the ticket states HS1 can be used to get to/from St Pancras too on Southeastern High Speed - does anyone know the extent of this validity? (presumably it wouldnt cover me all the way up from Ramsgate!)
466.networkers
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I've registered and have received my email .... I'm going to ask at Sheerness tomorrow regarding availability for travel to/from St Pancras for the event ... if not I'm planning on getting a Travelcard anyway ... make a day of it! 
Will post any details as/when/if I get any.
Will post any details as/when/if I get any.
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These things can be quite fun.
I did the Terminal 5 testing days - although they supplied a lunch. (and goody bag, and chance to win BA flights)
I did the Terminal 5 testing days - although they supplied a lunch. (and goody bag, and chance to win BA flights)
33056
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With regard to ticket validity, see the Q&A section
So Ramsgate probably OK as long as you stick to Highspeed services in the timescale specified, anywhere / anything else and it looks as if you will have to get yourself there.
So Ramsgate probably OK as long as you stick to Highspeed services in the timescale specified, anywhere / anything else and it looks as if you will have to get yourself there.
heart-of-wessex
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Whoops, better book myself tickets to get to London!!
I think I mis-read the website.
Quote on the Q&A:
The test event ticket is only valid for travel on Southeastern Highspeed services on Saturday 9th July 2011, for travel to St Pancras to attend the test event, travel during the test event, and travel from St Pancras after the test event.
I thought it meant it was valid for use on HS1 on the day of the event, also travel to and from the event (even if, say, you lived in Guildford)
Ticket mentions it's valid on HS1 only, got it entirely wrong (insert embarrassed emoticon here, I don't know the code for it)
James.
I think I mis-read the website.
Quote on the Q&A:
The test event ticket is only valid for travel on Southeastern Highspeed services on Saturday 9th July 2011, for travel to St Pancras to attend the test event, travel during the test event, and travel from St Pancras after the test event.
I thought it meant it was valid for use on HS1 on the day of the event, also travel to and from the event (even if, say, you lived in Guildford)
Ticket mentions it's valid on HS1 only, got it entirely wrong (insert embarrassed emoticon here, I don't know the code for it)
James.
Excellent. Im down in Thanet that weekend so a free trip up to london to do this would be excellent.
causton
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Ticket is booked! How long ago did they announce this, because if I'd seen this just a couple of days later I would have already booked work for that day :P
ralphchadkirk
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I've just registered, and got my ticket - I'm in the Red Zone apparently.
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Anybody thought that it is great them trying it out on the public, but the ones going to the test will all generally have an idea of what to do; when it is for real, you'll have people who don't know how to use public transport, people who can't read English etc...
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Yellow zone for me and mum too - Now just got to book up on trains to get there and back. I know we have to be registered for 1045 - but has anyone got any ideas on the finishing time?
I am thinking of going Norwich - Stratford Regional - Stratford Int - STP... and opposite on return.
Also anyone who has done this before, what did it involve?
I am thinking of going Norwich - Stratford Regional - Stratford Int - STP... and opposite on return.
Also anyone who has done this before, what did it involve?
causton
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Red Zone for me... and from the ticket validity pages...
So I guess they're hoping to finish at 1 if all goes well
So I guess they're hoping to finish at 1 if all goes well
Looking forward to tomorrow - be interesting to see the sorts of things they're testing
(I also have a spare ticket in the unlikely but possible event anyone is interested last-minute incidentally, the person I was going with has dropped out.)
(I also have a spare ticket in the unlikely but possible event anyone is interested last-minute incidentally, the person I was going with has dropped out.)
466.networkers
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If it's like last time it'll be testing the exit times and dwell times in the stations for pax getting in/out.
Should be a good day, am looking forward to it. Won't cost me a penny in travel! :P
Should be a good day, am looking forward to it. Won't cost me a penny in travel! :P
christopher
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Yellow Zone for me too, Travelling alone so does anyone fancy meeting up?
Planning on travelcard bashing aswell
Cheers,
Chris
Planning on travelcard bashing aswell
Cheers,
Chris
ushawk
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Was mainly just waiting around at St Pancras, go on a train to Ebbsfleet, wait around there for a bit, then back to St Pancras.
causton
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Got to St Pancras at about 10:20 (was supposed to be there before 10:45). Was put in the Red Zone next to the taxi rank near the entrance to platforms A+B. We queued for some time and I got to 'admire' how useless the public are at using a taxi rank, with drivers telling people to 'get in the taxi in front' (which had someone in it, and left 5 seconds later) and people getting in taxis at the rank entrance so nobody could actually get down. People also thought our queue of 100+ people was the taxi queue!
So we eventually moved inside, the whole of the concourse in the square bordered by FCC's platform entrance, Starbucks and the Sourced Market was filled with a maze queue for us to follow, which we did, then it was slowly but surely up the stairs to the open barriers. There were 12 carriages but people only thought the 6 nearest the buffers were for our use so my carriage, first one of the second 'train', was surprisingly empty, and I got a window seat (with no window
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We set off for Ebbsfleet and the train got up to 138mph (courtesy of the guy opposite me using the GPS on his phone) and I was surprised at how far we had gone as the train really does not feel like it's going that fast! Anyway....
We shuffled through a dark and dingy underpass from platform 5 at Ebbsfleet to the main 'terminal' building. I sat on the grass for a while, then tried to find the Caffe Nero as there was an advertisement outside. There was a general shop which I tried to buy a meal deal at, then realised they had no sandwiches that met the criteria for a meal deal, so went hungry after not finding this elusive Caffe Nero. There was Wenlock & Mandeville outside, some very good musicians (forget the band name now, whoops) and free 2012 pin badges for all (one each, please -- asked politely and got a second one for my mum though!)
We were there for just under an hour and after that, we simply were ushered back onto the train. Went for the middle of the 'second' train again - big mistake, some child was kicking my seat and a baby was crying beside me, and some people were shouting very loudly. I waited for about a minute, then decided it was time to move - so I went down to what I thought was the front of the train. I sat beside two volunteers, one of whom lived quite near to me, but I didn't pipe up. I measured 139mph maximum speed on the way back - very good!
Arrived at St Pancras again, then realised I was in the middle of the train, not at the front (!) so went back through the barriers, down the escalator, then out the doors towards Kings Cross. It felt like it was all over so soon and I didn't actually do much, but I guess it must have helped Southeastern
So we eventually moved inside, the whole of the concourse in the square bordered by FCC's platform entrance, Starbucks and the Sourced Market was filled with a maze queue for us to follow, which we did, then it was slowly but surely up the stairs to the open barriers. There were 12 carriages but people only thought the 6 nearest the buffers were for our use so my carriage, first one of the second 'train', was surprisingly empty, and I got a window seat (with no window
)We set off for Ebbsfleet and the train got up to 138mph (courtesy of the guy opposite me using the GPS on his phone) and I was surprised at how far we had gone as the train really does not feel like it's going that fast! Anyway....
We shuffled through a dark and dingy underpass from platform 5 at Ebbsfleet to the main 'terminal' building. I sat on the grass for a while, then tried to find the Caffe Nero as there was an advertisement outside. There was a general shop which I tried to buy a meal deal at, then realised they had no sandwiches that met the criteria for a meal deal, so went hungry after not finding this elusive Caffe Nero. There was Wenlock & Mandeville outside, some very good musicians (forget the band name now, whoops) and free 2012 pin badges for all (one each, please -- asked politely and got a second one for my mum though!)
We were there for just under an hour and after that, we simply were ushered back onto the train. Went for the middle of the 'second' train again - big mistake, some child was kicking my seat and a baby was crying beside me, and some people were shouting very loudly. I waited for about a minute, then decided it was time to move - so I went down to what I thought was the front of the train. I sat beside two volunteers, one of whom lived quite near to me, but I didn't pipe up. I measured 139mph maximum speed on the way back - very good!
Arrived at St Pancras again, then realised I was in the middle of the train, not at the front (!) so went back through the barriers, down the escalator, then out the doors towards Kings Cross. It felt like it was all over so soon and I didn't actually do much, but I guess it must have helped Southeastern
causton
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We didn't even get to look at Stratford (apart from at a hundred and something miles per hour)!
But yes, only one trip there and one trip back.
PS: Go on then, look at a couple of pictures of it!
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