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ASHFORD TO LOSE EUROSTAR SERVICES
 
On the day the new Ebbsfleet International Station was opened (13 September), it was announced that Ashford's International train services are being cut.

The station which was built 10 years ago at a cost of £80m will lose all Brussels trains and its off-peak Paris services when Eurostar moves its London base from Waterloo to St Pancras in October 2007.  Only then will trains begin operating from Ebbsfleet.

Ashford will retain three daily services to Paris and one to Disneyland Resort Paris.

High-speed domestic services are due to begin in 2009.

Ashford MP Damian Green said he wondered "whether Eurostar have got their projections right" in prioritising services from Ebbsfleet.

"It's obviously very worrying and disappointing," he said.