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And if this MP has his way, it might skip my train station for the sake of marketing.

A missive written by Labour MP Gwyn Prosser of Dover last May has recently sparked the attention of detractors. This comes as Southeastern Trains announced that peak train service on its new Javelin "bullet train" to Dover, Folkestone and Thanet will expand three months ahead of schedule. The expanded service, through Ashford and Medway's Ebbsfield to London's St. Pancras station, will begin on 7 September, and full service will start by year's end.

In May, Prosser wrote that were the Javelin's service "tweaked", it could make the trip from Dover Priory station to St. Pancras in just under an hour. By tweak, Prosser means dump one of the two Folkestone stops so that Dover can claim it's less than an hour away. He calls this a "psychologically important threshold."

Prosser's missive for the Hawkinge Gazette re-surfaced yesterday when Folkestone West Councillor Tim Prater, upon linking to it, tweeted the suggestion as: "Rubbish. Folkestone Central has best bus links, Folkestone West more parking. We need both." And three negative responses from readers have been published.

Back home, Trenton is an hour's drive west of Kirksville. The fastest I drove it down Highway 6, however, was 64 minutes. As far as I'm concerned, it's an hour's drive.