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Update 2022 Arriving by train
Hitchhiking out of London can take a long time, so if you'd rather sleep in and waste some money you can get the train to Hollingbourne. I, [[User:Mooseling|Mooseling]], just tried this and found it very easy. From London, the train goes past Maidstone Services just about a minute before reaching Hollingbourne station, so you basically want to go into the farm fields and follow the tracks back to the service station. Get out of the train, walk back along the platform and down next to the tracks. Just ignore the sign that prohibits this, but make sure nobody's watching. After about twenty meters there are gates in the fences next to the tracks, go through the one on the left and into the fields. Stay in the fields and keep following the tracks back away from the station. You'll need to cross a little stream and a couple fences, and after three fields you'll enter a little woodland. This surrounds the service station, just walk straight through it and you'll be there. I did it in the spring and it was very nice. I was tempted to stop and fly a kite.
Update 2022: If you don't want to "sneak down the platform", exit the train station on the side where there is a small building and a car park. Take the footpath infront of you that goes up a bit. After about 10 meters you come to two gates/stiles close after each other. Go through the first one, but instead of going through the second turn right into the field. When you come to the small stream you can walk along it for about 20 meters till you come to a metal gate and a crossing over the water. Keep to the right side while crossing the fields. You will have to climb two fences and the fences on the right are already a bit worn down by people who climbed them. The gates and fences are quite easy to climb. They are designed to keep cattles in and don't try very hard to keep humans out.
== Ashford Services ==