Staines High Street railway station
Staines High Street railway station formerly served the town of Staines-upon-Thames, on the Windsor & Eton line of the London and South Western Railway.
History
It was opened on 1 July 1884 and closed on 1 February 1916 and was built for trains using the short West Curve (Chord) of a simple (at grade, that is on the level) three-direction junction of these two lines on a section of line on viaduct and embankment to suit the heightened elevation of line after merger with the London-oriented chord across the High Street's Iron Bridge and lower Colne and Staines Railway Bridge.
Demolition
When passenger services no longer ran via that chord it remained in use for occasional freight traffic until the mid-1960s after which the chord embankment was removed. A multi-level car park stands on the site of the chord with no remains of the station.
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Under the Heathrow Airtrack rail link plan and any other plan to join the South West Main Line to the Great Western Line between the Surrey-Berkshire-Hampshire border link and that in Central London, the west curve would be reinstated, equally if direct services to Windsor, Berkshire were desired from London Gatwick Airport.[1] The most prominent proposal for such a link, the Airtrack proposal was dropped on the basis of the expense of installing at least two bridges or tunnels in Egham nearby to replace level crossings.
As of October 2014, an Airtrack Lite proposal of three years' date involves more use of the Windsor line by expanding its capacity along a disused spur and beyond to Heathrow Airport, which has not been withdrawn as is pending with the Department for Transport. The proposal would use the existing chord to the east.[2]
References
- ↑ AirTrack Forum. "What is AirTrack?". Retrieved 10 August 2010.
- ↑ "Report by the Chief Executive and Director of Administration (on behalf of all officers concerned) on the Proposed South London – Heathrow Rail Link Project" (PDF). Retrieved 5 September 2013.