Services
Stopping services run from Charing Cross or Cannon Street to Orpington or Sevenoaks, with other services on the route running fast over this section. Beyond Sevenoaks, stopping services originating from Tunbridge Wells, just off the main line, cover the stations with other services on the route running fast over this section
At Tonbridge services from the original main route – now the rural Redhill to Tonbridge Line line – join from Redhill, while the main line to Hastings via Tunbridge Wells diverges.
At Paddock Wood the Medway Valley Line diverges.
At Ashford the Maidstone East Line (from Swanley) and High Speed 1 joins in, while several lines diverge: the Canterbury West line (to Ramsgate and beyond), High Speed 1 and Marshlink Line (to Hastings).
Broadly speaking services divide, proceeding to Margate via the Canterbury West line or continuing on the main line to Dover then taking the Kent Coast Line to rejoin at Ramsgate to reach Margate.
Trains are run by Southeastern.
Read more about this topic: South Eastern Main Line
Famous quotes containing the word services:
“Men will say that in supporting their wives, in furnishing them with houses and food and clothes, they are giving the women as much money as they could ever hope to earn by any other profession. I grant it; but between the independent wage-earner and the one who is given his keep for his services is the difference between the free-born and the chattel.”
—Elizabeth M. Gilmer (1861–1951)
“It seems I impregnated Marge
So I do rather feel, by and large,
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For services rendered,
But I can’t quite decide what to charge.”
—Anonymous.
“Working women today are trying to achieve in the work world what men have achieved all along—but men have always had the help of a woman at home who took care of all the other details of living! Today the working woman is also that woman at home, and without support services in the workplace and a respect for the work women do within and outside the home, the attempt to do both is taking its toll—on women, on men, and on our children.”
—Jeanne Elium (20th century)