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I guess the NIMBY's all drove cars and knew little of the rail line on their doorstep. Funny Norman Baker missed it too, seeing as he seems to think he is an authority on transport matters. It's about 10tph at South Bermondsey isn't it, in comparison.

We're DOOMED then? As Frazer might have put it..

I wasn't denying it wouldn't be chaos! To be honest, I think the solution would be not to run the diesel train say for 1/2/5pm time schedule and just whack in a Brighton to Lewes service. I know that wouldn't be much help but it would be 4 carriages more than there would be otherwise.

Revolutions seem to be a bit like Spurs used to be with the cups... In a year ending with a 9! Iranian Islamic, 1979, Eastern Europe, 1989.. Not to mention Charles I losing his head in 1649, and the French revolution in 1789

I guess capacity could be increased by one train an hour each way if the Ashford service called at Falmer, bringing it up to 5. Incidentially, the ATOC put out their list of lines/stations to be considered for reopening and on a sizeable list, no Lewes/Uck. None really in our area, closest is...

Everyone dancing with tears in their eyes then?

I walked there from the station, it isn't THAT tricky. I do take your point however.

I do! But there are surely some destinations that could be marketed? Tourist trade to Hever castle maybe.

Destined to remain closed forever then?

But surely Eastbourne benefits from being closer to Brighton then Hastings is?

I'd agree with you, it's a bit of stretch to include someone who has only played six or so games for us. Come to think of it, despite having quite the collection of centre backs, we've had very few right or left backs.

That was my thinking, I think we need to be as radical as the Victorians were when they first built the railways back in the 1830s-50s.

I thought Mayo did very well in the side that Ingimarsson played in, when he was effectively one of three centre backs. Then again, Pethick looked very solid then too, therefore showing the abilities of Steve Coppell!

It must be remembered that in 2003-04, that Bristol City game aside, we had a mean defence at home and Cullip/Butters/Virgo all contributed to that alongside Roberts.

It's quite the challenge, is it not? I think it was British Bulldog who said even if you increase capacity, there simply won't be the capacity in the London terminals to cope with all the added passengers.

Network SouthEast all over again?

God knows Hastings needs it. It has been hamstrung really by its poor transport links to London for years. Rye would be a nice place to visit from London if you could go on HS1 to Ashford then jump on the Marshlink line. I walked from Hastings to Rye back in April and it was certainly one of...

Like you said in another thread, surely isn't the rail infrastructure really going to struggle getting all the fans to Falmer? Only four trains an hour from Brighton/Lewes.

I remember seeing a local paper headline a couple of years ago about the estimated money those replacement buses cost us in terms of lost tourism/visitors... On the subject of Falmer, I would assume, to avoid massive congestion, away fans will be recommended to go to Falmer via Lewes as...

I assumed that the new services were being factored in around Eurostar services and weren't reducing its capacity. I'm curious how that will go, seeing as it is the first time there has been trains of that speed running domestic services in this country.