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Old October 10th 11, 10:41 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default "Heathrow and Gatwick airports: Ministers mull rail link" (twixtthe two)

Clive D. W. Feather wrote on 10 October 2011 22:20:43 ...
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Indeed, this link only makes sense if Gatwick gets its second runway.
Equally, it would greatly strengthen the business case for that second
runway. It's not allowed until after 2019,


Nitpick: Gatwick has got two runways already. The agreement is to only
use one at a time.


Agreement or no agreement, the two runways are too close together (about
200 metres) to allow safe operation of both of them as runways at the
same time.
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