When the new HEX Connect service starts the local service from
Paddington to Hayes will have to terminate at Hayes at the rarely used
bay platform 5.

However next year when the Connect service goes from Paddington to
Hayes to Heathrow it will have to stop at platform 1 – the platform on
the fast down line.

Otherwise it will have to use the down local platform 3 – but then it
will have to cross both fast lines to get onto the Heathrow branch.

Seems like someone hasn't really thought this through properly.

SB


"Peter Smyth" wrote in message ...
"Paul Clare" moc.evresupmoc@eralc_luap wrote in message
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"Peter Smyth" wrote in message
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None of these stations will have a reduced frequency in the new
timetable. The only difference is that the slow train to Slough now only
goes as far as Hayes.

What about stations beyond Hayes?

The slow Oxford service will now call at Ealing Broadway, Hayes, West
Drayton, Iver, Langley, Slough, Maidenhead, Twyford and Reading then most
stations to Oxford.

Peter Smyth