Heathrow Airtrack

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Heathrow rail services

Heathrow
Express

Heathrow
Connect

London Paddington

Ealing Broadway Interchange to Central Line

West Ealing (closed Sundays)

Hanwell (closed Sundays)

Southall

Hayes & Harlington

Piccadilly Line

Heathrow Central (rail) & Terminals 1, 2, 3 (tube)

Free transfer between terminals on Heathrow Connect

Heathrow Terminal 4 rail & tube (Heathrow Connect Terminus)

Free transfer between terminals on Heathrow Express

Heathrow Terminal 5 (Heathrow Express Terminus)

to London Waterloo

Staines (proposed Heathrow Express Terminus)

Staines High Street (Proposed)

to Reading, Woking and Guildford

Heathrow
Airtrack

All Heathrow stations have step-free access

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.

1 Plans
2 Current status
3 See also
4 External links
5 References

[edit] 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.

[edit] Current status

BAA have announced ^[1] a public consultation ^[2] 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. ^[3]