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Winners
Ninety-eight of Southeastern's 165 stations will see improved overall peak-hour services. In many cases, however, choice of London termini will be reduced. Twenty-eight stations will be given improved off-peak services.
● Sevenoaks sees its morning peak service to Charing Cross almost double, and gets an extra two trains an hour off-peak.
● Almost every station between Hastings, Tonbridge and London sees more peak trains, and many have improvements off-peak.
● Stations between Slade Green and Deptford, and also the Bexleyheath line, get better peak services and many will also see off-peak frequency rises. There are also peak-hour improvements at several other inner-suburban stations in London.
● Two main Javelin routes, serving 21 Kent stations at peak hours and 18 at off-peak times. Northernmost route - from Margate to St Pancras via Faversham, the Medway Towns and Gravesend - intended to compensate for cuts to existing service.
Losers
Eighty-one stations served from London - almost half - will suffer some form of cut.
● 22 stations in south London and Kent will have peak services axed without any Javelin trains to compensate.
● A further 11 stations will suffer reduced peak services with only premium-rate Javelin trains to compensate.
● A further 46 stations will lose some or all of their direct trains to particular termini, although overall peak service will remain same or rise.
● 18 stations will see cuts in off-peak services on existing lines. Worst-hit station is Northfleet, near Gravesend. Peak service into Charing Cross cut by 60 per cent and peak service to Cannon Street axed with no Javelin replacement.
● Other stations badly affected are Chatham and Gillingham, whose peak service to Cannon Street is slashed by 30 per cent and whose off-peak service to Victoria is cut by a quarter. Rainham and Sittingbourne lose several peak trains and their off-peak service to Victoria is halved.
Reader views (2)
'A further 46 stations will lose some or all of their direct trains to particular termini, although overall peak service will remain same or rise' NOTE is says peak service will remain the same!!
Therefore if you exclude the 46 that have same level of peak service - but may have a different or more restricted terminal station only 35 have 'some form of cut'
But saying 79% (or 8 out of every 10) stations will have a better service doesn't really sensationalise the point enough!!
- Mark, London, 10/01/2009 00:16
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"Eighty-one stations served from London - almost half - will suffer some form of cut."
i.e. the majority will have the same or improved service!
- Andy G, London, 09/01/2009 13:17
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