How many people are coming from Kent for the games? Surely the vast majority of the traffic is coming from the London direction?
How many people are coming from Kent for the games? Surely the vast majority of the traffic is coming from the London direction?
Well it's not just one service is it? Dover and Margate have no HS1 services for the duration of the games."I know! We've got 80,000 people coming out of the Olympic Stadium, lets cancel one train service completely and force everyone to travel to St. Pancras, creating more congestion than there needed to be because people will be going there who didn't want to be. What a good idea."
Exactly. It's a choice of running 12x395 on Ebbsfleet shuttles with occasional through services to Ashford and Faversham or continue with 6x395 on 2tph Faversham, 1tph Dover, 1tph Margate. It's obvious that for this very small period that the former must be chosen to accommodate a once in a lifetime event. Charing Cross, Cannon Street and Victoria haven't ceased to exist.How many people are coming from Kent for the games? Surely the vast majority of the traffic is coming from the London direction?
But they weren't told they could get there, and then left with no service to get home.Well it's not just one service is it? Dover and Margate have no HS1 services for the duration of the games.
There's more demand for people to head to St. Pancras Int'l than there is to head to Kent.
Oh, and another problem. Since I now need to collect my Games Travelcard it means I have to spend god knows how long in a ticket office queue, when I shouldn't really need it!
I thought the Travelcards were sent out with event tickets.
Mine were!
I thought the Travelcards were sent out with event tickets.
Mine were!
But I didn't know I was going to go in June, and the big news was that SE were reducing the number of trains per hour. I didn't expect to have to study the timetable in minute detail, and didn't expect SE to be so stupid as to provide people with a way to get to the Olympics, but not one to get home.
Trains to Gillingham don't stop at NorthfleetAccording to Google Earth it is an 800m walk from Ebbsfleet international to Northfleet.
A ten minute walk and a half hour service from Northfleet. Whether it is a particularly nice walk at 10pm on a Saturday i don't know.
If you're that bothered about queuing then use your Oyster and pay!
I have managed to avoid commuting to work in London recently in general, but have seen various entry/exit only arrangements and odd diversions.
The best example of this has to be London Bridge. Platform 1-6 to the Underground, you are diverted all the way round the outside of the station in a huge loop. The station is not even that busy, even with various events on the routes of London Bridge. I'd say peak time during normal term time is in fact considerably busier.
I note you've not replied in regard to who is paying the bill for the Olympics.
Little question!
How do the shuttles work?
Are they literally stopping at Stratford then turning back round?
If you bought them in advance they were, but I only purchased mine last night and chose a P@H ticket (so I wouldn't have to collect), which means I have to collect mine if I want one.
With the greatest of respect, if I had a ticket for the athletics in the Olympic Stadium on the final night of the Games I'd consider myself very lucky, and certainly wouldn't have spent the day complaining on an internet forum about how long it was going to take me to get home.
I'm sure the avaiability of world class public transport links into London played a part in the Games being awarded to London in the first place.
With the greatest of respect I haven't spent the day complaining. I posted one complaint this morning because I found out late last night (after checking the times of the trains) that what I thought would be an easy ride home had turned into a lot of hassle (which seriously ****ed me off), and then spent the day replying to other people's comments.With the greatest of respect, if I had a ticket for the athletics in the Olympic Stadium on the final night of the Games I'd consider myself very lucky, and certainly wouldn't have spent the day complaining on an internet forum about how long it was going to take me to get home.
Err perhaps I'm missing something but why can't you go to St Pancras, tube to Victoria and then catch a service to Faversham from there?
Yes, silly me. Fancy expecting a train service that's there one minute to be there the next. :roll:
Tons of people want to go to the Olympics, but SE seem to think no one wants to go home.
SE are running trains to and from Faversham all day so I don't see why they feel the need to have a four hour gap just when 80,000 people are coming out of the Olympic Stadium.
Would it have been beyond the realms of wisdom to make the 9:28pm train a little later to enable people coming out of the Stadium to catch it? No of course not, that would have been too easy.
SE can expect a strongly worded letter of complaint from me.
Thanks a lot for your answer! Another one, how does that work with signalling/points? What I mean is I take it they don't run on the wrong side, where do they switch back to the correct side? I presume points just after ebsfleet?
So Pancreas - Stratford - ebsfleet
Driver changes ends
Leaves ebsfleet on the wrong side, changes over to "right side" just after ebsfleet, - Stratford - St P
Another question, which 'box controls the HS1 route?
Thanks a lot for your answer! Another one, how does that work with signalling/points? What I mean is I take it they don't run on the wrong side, where do they switch back to the correct side? I presume points just after ebsfleet?
So Pancreas - Stratford - ebsfleet
Driver changes ends
Leaves ebsfleet on the wrong side, changes over to "right side" just after ebsfleet, - Stratford - St P
Another question, which 'box controls the HS1 route?