Tonbridge Line Commuters recently issued the following Press Release in response to the Department for Transport’s decision not to “devolve” Southeastern metro services to Transport for London: A rail passenger watchdog has welcomed the news that Kent rail services will continue to be run by a single company. The Department for Transport had threatened to […]
Many passengers from West Kent find taking Eurostar services from Ashford International quicker and more convenient than travelling to either St Pancras or Ebbsfleet, so we were alarmed to discover that Eurostar plans to reduce the number of trains between Ashford and Paris from 11 December. Currently, on weekdays services run from Ashford to Paris […]
Tonbridge Line Commuters has highlighted concerns that passengers will be out of pocket during the next phase of the engineering works at London Bridge. The Thameslink Programme entails considerable disruption to Southeastern passengers travelling through London Bridge. Since January 2015 services to Charing Cross have not called at London Bridge. To allow passengers to continue […]
Passengers at Tonbridge will no longer have to visit the temporary ticket office in Barden Road after Southeastern completed the refurbishment of the permanent ticket office in late April 2016. This has included installing new larger ticket windows which they hope will create a more welcoming environment and give a clearer view of which window […]
It’s certainly been a bad start to the year for commuters from Tonbridge, Paddock Wood and Hildenborough. The first couple of weeks of 2016 saw delays and cancellations virtually every day, despite the Christmas engineering works at London Bridge finishing on time. It’s therefore no wonder that some commuters have got fed up and are […]