Whose great idea was the train? I arrived at Folkestone West in good time only to find all the trains were delayed due to trespassers on the tracks near Dover. The information boards seemed up to date with slow trains, but not for the High Speed service I needed. "Delayed" isn't helpful. When the boards did update, the 1601 High Speed service would not arrive until at least 1629. So I got the delayed by 20 minutes 1540 slow train to Ashford International. It crawled along. It would be a tight squeeze to get from Ashford Platform 1 and across the Platform 5 for the 1640 HS, that had come via Canterbury and not Dover. On a good day I should have been stepping off the train at Ebbsfleet International... In the end it was fast walk between platforms as we had been sitting alongside the rail works admiring the new German built equipment for cleaning the rails and removing the slippery leaves and ice, for ten minutes. Platform 5 was packed. The announcements confused the late ...