Heathrow Airtrack

Heathrow Airtrack

Heathrow Airtrack is a proposed new UK rail link from Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 (T5) to Staines High Street railway station built on the disused southern portion of the former West Drayton to Staines railway line with direct services to Reading, Guildford, and London Waterloo.

Plans

The T5 railway station has two safeguarded "heavy rail" platforms for use by a west-facing connection to the National Rail network, which would be utilised by Airtrack to offer direct services to Reading, Guildford, and London Waterloo.

The proposals for the AirTrack link would see a new station, to be called Staines High Street railway station, being built between the existing Staines and Wraysbury railway stations near to the site of a former station of the same name.

BAA have indicated that they also want to extend the Heathrow Express service from terminal 5 to a new terminus platform at Staines.

Current status

BAA have announced [cite press release
publisher=BAA Heathrow Airport
url=http://www.heathrowairport.com/portal/page/General/Heathrow%5EGeneral%5EOur+business+and+community%5EHeathrow+transformation%5EHeathrow+Airtrack/100046e4daa55110VgnVCM10000036821c0a____/448c6a4c7f1b0010VgnVCM200000357e120a____/
title=Airtrack
accessdate=2008-03-03 ] a public consultation [cite press release
publisher=BAA Heathrow Airport
date=2008-02-01
url=http://www.heathrowairport.com/assets/B2CPortal/Static%20Files/LHR_airtracknew_Brochure.pdf
format=pdf
title=Improving Public Transport Access to Heathrow Airport
accessdate=2008-03-03 ] into the scheme, with an aim to have the link open by 2014. The AirTrack Forum, a group of local authorities and businesses, including BAA, are also undertaking work to support the opening of the rail link. This has included commissioning consultants to study the economic benefits of the scheme. [cite press release
publisher=AirTrack Forum
url=http://www.airtrack.org/news.htm
title=Airtrack
accessdate=2008-04-05 ]

ee also

* Superlink (railway network)
* Dot2Dot

External links

* [http://www.airtrack.org/ AirTrack website]

References



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