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Following the completion of High Speed 1, Southeastern will operate high-speed domestic services on it, including the Olympic Javelin service that is to run during London's 2012 Summer Olympics.
A fleet of twenty-nine six-carriage Shinkansen-derived high-speed ‘A-trains’ have already been ordered from Hitachi for this route.[1] This is Hitachi’s first train sale in Britain. They will be known as Class 395 when in service.
High-speed services are expected to begin in December 2009, but the first four trains were delivered in 2007 for testing and driver training.[2]
The new company have made a point of advertising part-owner SNCF’s experience operating and integrated high-speed train services on the French TGV network.
The first train will be named after Dame Kelly Holmes, a British gold-medal athlete, with further trains to be named after British personalities associated with speed.
The colour scheme for the high speed trains will be dark blue - using the same corporate colour as their logo.
Current plans call for the company to operate up to seven high-speed trains per hour at peak times, with four trains per hour off-peak.[3] These trains will only run at high speed on the CTRL itself; at some point each will switch over to conventional track and need to run at reduced speeds alongside conventional trains. In the table below, stations falling on the high-speed portion of the trip are boldfaced.
| Peak hours | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Route | Frequency | Stations called | |
| London – Ebbsfleet | 2 tph | London St Pancras, Stratford, Ebbsfleet | |
| London – Rochester | 1.5 tph | London St Pancras, Stratford, Gravesend, Higham, Strood, Rochester | |
| London – Broadstairs | 1.5 tph | London St Pancras, Stratford, Ebbsfleet, Chatham, Gillingham, Rainham, Sittingbourne, Faversham, Whitstable, Herne Bay, Birchington on Sea, Margate, Broadstairs | |
| London – Dover/Margate | 2 tph | London St Pancras, Ebbsfleet, Ashford International (train divides) | Wye, Canterbury West, Sturry, Minster, Ramsgate, Broadstairs, Margate |
| Sandling, Folkestone West, Folkestone Central, Dover Priory | |||
| Off-peak hours | |||
| Route | Frequency | Stations called | |
| London – Faversham | 2 tph | London St Pancras, Stratford, Ebbsfleet, Gravesend, Strood, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham, Rainham, Sittingbourne, Faversham | |
| London – Ramsgate | 1 tph | London St Pancras, Stratford, Ebbsfleet, Ashford International, Canterbury West, Ramsgate | |
| London – Dover | 1 tph | London St Pancras, Stratford, Ebbsfleet, Ashford International, Folkestone West, Folkestone Central, Dover Priory | |
These plans are still tenitive, and the off-peak services have been changed from the Department for Transport specification. In July 2006 it was announced that the Shakespeare Tunnels would be upgraded by Network Rail to allow high speed trains to reach Dover Priory.[4] A campaign was fought for the off-peak services on the Chatham main line to terminate at Faversham rather than Sittingbourne and as a result, the services will now run to Faversham but will not call at Higham.[5] The calling pattern during the two hour peaks still has to be confirmed, the DfT specification shown above.
