Lydd Happenings
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Intergration is it
jabird
Yes, this part of the world needs better transport links.
Some folk will remember the Folkestone to Honiton trunk road signs, what is now, for the most part, the A/M27 West of Lewes.
Whilst a Hastings bypass has not found approval the improvements to the South coast rail service are coming along very well. A new station at Hastings and through running.
From January 2006 the proposed timetable for trains along the south coast offers a 100 minute service Brighton-Ashford (and vv).
Connecting into this, the Ashford rail hub (Benelux, France) and the fast link to London looks like a sensible idea for the air carrier community, staff and residents.
Yes, this part of the world needs better transport links.
Some folk will remember the Folkestone to Honiton trunk road signs, what is now, for the most part, the A/M27 West of Lewes.
Whilst a Hastings bypass has not found approval the improvements to the South coast rail service are coming along very well. A new station at Hastings and through running.
From January 2006 the proposed timetable for trains along the south coast offers a 100 minute service Brighton-Ashford (and vv).
Connecting into this, the Ashford rail hub (Benelux, France) and the fast link to London looks like a sensible idea for the air carrier community, staff and residents.
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As I remember it from a good many years ago (grew up in Lydd) the line would have to have a large investment between Appledore and Lydd to correct the level crossings. Is this still the case? I know the line was always restricted in terms of train speed due to the old rails but maybe this has changed...
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What a lot of people forget is that Lydd was built as a commercial airport from the very start (after the move from Lympne in the 1950's). In it's day it was busier than Gatwick with the car ferry flights, with only the Ro-Ro ferries putting paid to that in the 1970's.
At one time wasn't Croydon much busier than Heathrow? No one seriously suggests that as a reason for putting London's next airport in Croydon. Although, perhaps...
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Britkit .....
I don't know what you are smoking, but I sure would like some.!
Why would anyone battle their way across the Romney Marshes
when Manston is just up the road, and easier to get to.?
The new owners of Manston have (According to their opening statement) taken a very large reality pill. There IS a market out there and it consists of the immediate catchment area (Margate, Canterbury, Maidstone) AND Freight. I can't see a Semi-Trailer negotiating the Marsh roads anytime soon. Lydd in it's heyday did not have to compete with Cross Channel Ferries, nor The Tunnel.......that's why it's quiet today. It doesn't even have the GA traffic that used to clear customs and immigration there.
I don't know what you are smoking, but I sure would like some.!
Why would anyone battle their way across the Romney Marshes
when Manston is just up the road, and easier to get to.?
The new owners of Manston have (According to their opening statement) taken a very large reality pill. There IS a market out there and it consists of the immediate catchment area (Margate, Canterbury, Maidstone) AND Freight. I can't see a Semi-Trailer negotiating the Marsh roads anytime soon. Lydd in it's heyday did not have to compete with Cross Channel Ferries, nor The Tunnel.......that's why it's quiet today. It doesn't even have the GA traffic that used to clear customs and immigration there.
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britkit:
So what would the preferred option be - 600 metres of covered travelators across the fields from the current line to the terminal, or a new branch line northwards to a station in the airport? Either way it sounds like there'll have to be a lot more dipping into those Saudi bank accounts.
NS
the rail link would be ideal, if, (if you'll pardon the pun) we can get it off the ground. It's not like the track is not there and not in use, it is on both counts - just not by passenger-carrying trains at the moment.
NS
