Is Hastings Going To Get A Modern Railway?
It has been reported that the Marshlink line between Ashford and Hastings is going to be upgraded so that high-speed Class 395 trains can run along the South Coast.
Hastings to London would be reduced to 68 minutes. In this post, I said the following.
To illustrate the poor train service in this part of Sussex, if you go from Charing Cross to Hastings, you can do it normally in about one hour forty-five minutes, on a train with innumerable stops. At the moment a lot of the services are replaced by buses due to landslips. If you read Wikipedia on theHastings Line, you’ll see how it was built by the worst of Victorian gerry-builders and how some of the line has been single-tracked, so that normal-sized trains can use the line. Until 1986, the line was operated by special narrow trains.
So the reduction in journey time is a good one.
The Anonymous Widower 