The gas leak in Canterbury has taken on larger proportions. The line between Ashford and Canterbury has been closed all day and is likely to be closed all tomorrow, too.
The bus service between Ashford and Canterbury has been institutionalised and given a timetable. I wish I had known that this morning as I had a 20 minute wait at the station for the bus to arrive. Bizarrely, though the bus to Ashford makes a reasonable connection, the bus from Ashford is timetabled to depart 1 (that's one) minute before the train it's due to connect with arrives in. That this ensures that the journeys will always qualify for delay/repay is, perhaps, the good side of an otherwise quite strange decision.
During the day, the 'live' travel information from South eastern and National Rail continues to give spurious outputs. At 0810 I had a message from SouthEastern to say that the 0808 departure from Chilham would be 5 minutes late, followed, shortly after, by a correction to say that the 0808 would now run to time. Needless to say, it wasn't running at all. This evening, too, the National Rail live departures site showed two or three trains running to time from Ashford to Canterbury, and even showed their progress on the little graphic. They, too, weren't running. It all undermines any confidence one has in the 'live' information.
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