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Crossrail Canary Wharf going to Heathrow airport

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Crossrail Canary Wharf going to Heathrow airport May 2, 2012 20:40:02 GMT

Post by Deleted on May 2, 2012 20:40:02 GMT

the last three decades of planning for CrossRail have been dominated by a scrabble to find enough western traffic to balance the flows. Hence schemes to (a) take over the Met outers, (b) the Euston outers, and (c) the Wycombes to supplement what is available at Paddington.

What happened to the 2004 proposal by the LB of Hounslow (PDF) for a branch there via Acton?

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Crossrail Canary Wharf going to Heathrow airport May 3, 2012 8:22:16 GMT

Post by grahamhewett on May 3, 2012 8:22:16 GMT

Yes - I'm sure that HEX has grandfather rights on the main lines (maybe also some on the reliefs also); another issue is probably that with Crossrail providing a direct service to many of the major destinations, HEX has probably passed its sell-by date - Paddington is not really a major destination in its own right, and the time gains from the faster HEX trip compared with CrossRail will be largely dissipated by the need to change at Paddington (bearing in mind that the standard interchange penalty is 20 minutes).

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