Services
High Speed 1 was built to allow eight trains per hour through to the Channel Tunnel. As of December 2010, Eurostar runs one or two trains per hour through to the Channel Tunnel. Southeastern has in the high peak eight trains per hour between London and Ebbsfleet, two of these continuing on to Ashford. During the 2012 Olympic Games Southeastern provided the Olympic Javelin service with up to twelve trains per hour from Stratford into London.
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Famous quotes containing the word services:
“Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“It seems I impregnated Marge
So I do rather feel, by and large,
Some cash should be tendered
For services rendered,
But I can’t quite decide what to charge.”
—Anonymous.