It would appear that this service is to be a glittering showpiece of railway technology, desisigned to shift those with money quickly from A to B, at the expense of everyone in a lower pay bracket. If NORMAL services have been halved in frequency, and retimed to a slower schedule, and don't stop at the most popular stations for Kent commuters, I'm not surprised that they're all up in arms about it. When are TOCs going to realise that it's THESE people that make up the vast majority of their travelling customers? It's high time that priorities for rich travellers took a back seat. I can see all this going horribly wrong, and backfiring on SE Trains. And rightly so.
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