Andy wrote:
"gwr4090" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Steve Fitzgerald ] wrote:
In message , Martin
Whelton writes
Do we know when construction work is due to start on the Piccadilly
extension to Terminal 5 as I understand that tunneling work was
due to be finished by next year. I also understand that Terminal 4
would be temporaily closed during the construction period.

Tunnelling is well under way and I believe the station box is all
but finished.

Plans are advanced for the closure of the T4 loop to allow the T5
extension to be connected. I think the latest plan is around
December. I'll try and confirm today at work, but I think we're
looking at about a two year closure.

The latest edition of Rail implies that the the first Picadilly line
tunnel between T123 and T5 is already complete and the second tunnel
is about to start. Both Picadilly line and HEX will have twin track
connections to T5 with two platforms at T5 for each service and an
option of two further platforms for HEX. There is also an
implication (it is not entirely clear in the article) that HEX
trains will serve T123 and T5 only. The plan to split HEX trains at
T123 into T4 and T5 portions seems to have been abandoned.

So, another ****ing waste of existing infrastructure then? The
Jubilee's Green Park-Charing Cross (and tunnels almost as far as
Aldwych) and the Piccadilly's Holborn-Aldwych shuttle. Now the HEX
T123-T4. Why not make use of and expand existing
expensively-tunnelled infrastructure instead of mothballing it? This
country makes me maaaaad!!!!

A complete joke.


Forward you complaints to BAA. IIRC they, or someone else, chose to resite
T5 away from its original location which would have been served by the T4
loop.