Originally Posted by
tom tulpe
By train from London Bridge - 12 car trains every 30 mins (ordinary peak pattern), plus same from Victoria (or Blackfriars ATM as there's engineering works on the line to Victoria). It takes longer than HS1 obviously, but is immensely preferable to no trains at all.
Even if the facilities at Ashford weren't currently mothballed, they wouldn't be able to process the numbers required...