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Old 14th Mar 2012, 00:35
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LN-KGL
 
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LN-KGL- Sadly to call any rail service in this country 'Express' is an insult.
I've had my share over the years and I started already in 1983. There is one rail service that can be called express on British soil and that is the Eurostar. My only trip with Eurostar was on 17 May 2010 - the last day of the Icelandic ash. I had be back in Norway on the 18th and the only possible routing from Humberside was to drive all the way down to Kent and Ashford to catch Eurostar to Brussels and to continue with SAS BRU-CPH-OSL. Of course it was a different price for this routing compared with the scheduled and cancelled KLM flight home via AMS on the 16th. It might have become more expensive - a powerful Audi A4 and the fine motorways in Kent is dangerous combination, but lucky enough the Police that passed me in the outer lane had a more pressing matter ahead
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