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A quarter of commuters have found love in the tube

according to a poll by London Underground. And who's printing this shite? Yes, Metro. What should the sharpest response be? The other 75% can never find love becuase they've gnawed off their genitals in sheer frustration at the poor service? Stuck at...

PiePod

Ace, a guide to pies for your IPOD. Actually it only covers restaurants in New York, but nice to see people doing things like this. Our guide to Folkestone restaurants is also available in this way, via the power of IPOD Agent.Work is back to normal ...

Folkestone train times

Folkestone trains are a bit messed up for the whole summer (2005), possibly the next six months. To travel at about the same time, and not have to change trains at Ashford or anything we have to get trains to / from Cannon Street instead of Charing C...

Folkestone bullet train trial

A micro-writeup and picture here in the Evening SubStandard on the high speed rail link. Yeah baby, we'll soon be only 63 minutes away from the stinking metropolis.yourshepway.co.uk also has the story here, The site of the Hitachi High Speed Rail dep...

So long Astoria

Catching up on what friends have to say, and I find out from Darryl that there is a closing date for the Astoria, LA2, and Metro. The sites of some great gigs, key moments of my time in London probably. A shame. Think my first time there was to see U...

Knock on effects of the high speed rail link

853blog talks about knock on effects of the high speed rail link, how when our trains start flying up to Kings Cross instead of their regular old slow route it will free up some track time to enable a reorganisation of the timetable around South Lond...

High Speed Rail Link services from Chartham to London

There will be... none. Chartham is not far from Canterbury, and the existing peak services will continue. It's not so important to us now, a village location would have its own benefits, but here's a round up. Currently there's a choice of three trai...

New High Speed Rail (draft) timetable released today

Read about it here on southeasternrailway.co.uk.See the actual high speed draft timetable, including high speed rail link between Folkestone and London Kings Cross St Pancras - looks like 57 minutes from Folkestone Central if you catch the direct tra...

High speed rail link timetables out

New high speed rail timetable released today, slight repost from folkestonegerald.com. Still claiming under an hour from Folkestone to London on the new trains, which are due in December. ...

RT @darryl1974 The demolition of the Astoria in pictures:

Goodbye old friend. From my first visit to my last it was a good reliable gig venue. Always more about the people I was with than the venue itself, but still.Haven't mentioned Harry for DAYS! It's mostly that it's hard to think of something nice abou...

Folkestone gets the high speed rail service next month

From 7 September, the high-speed services will also serve Dover Priory, Canterbury West, Ramsgate, Folkestone Central and Folkestone West.

says the BBC.

Folkestone to London High Speed Rail Link trial has started

Details here on the BBC, anyone ridden this service yet? Anyone found a useful time of train to get them to or from Folkestone? I don't think there are many...

Monty Python Fancy Dress Party

1st prize - two tickets to see SPAMALOT in London. The Chambers, Cheriton Place, Folkestone.

Postgraduate Research Network and Workshop Conference

University Centre, Folkestone. Dr Paul Rennie p.rennie@csm.arts.ac.uk The conference is organised by Dr Paul Rennie (Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London) to coincide with the first Folkestone Triennale and hosted by the Unive...