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Dover gets high-speed CTRL trains

Discuție în 'On Track.' creată de stepney60, 17 Iul 2006.

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    Several years of campaigning have paid off as Dover in Kent has been told it will have Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL) services into London.
    The Department for Transport said hourly high-speed services would run between Dover Priory and London St Pancras from December 2009.

    Dover council and MP Gwyn Prosser called the news a "landmark decision" and "nothing short of monumental".

    Twenty-nine Hitachi class 395 trains, with a top speed of 140mph (225km/h), will operate on the CTRL.

    Journey times will be cut between London and Ashford, Canterbury, Folkestone and Ramsgate. Journeys from Dover to London will take 70 minutes

    Transport Minister Stephen Ladyman said on Friday: "The extension of these services to Dover is an important boost for the town."

    Full story HERE

    SOURCE: BBC
     
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