SIGNAL FAILURES
Kent asunder
ASHFORD station’s “international” section – built at hefty taxpayer expense – was a convenient place for many south-east citizens to board Eurostar trains to France and Belgium. Since the pandemic, those trains no longer stop at Ashford and whizz past (
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