Steve Fitzgerald wrote:

All trains will terminate at Hatton Cross Saturday 8 and Sunday 9
January. (Just how long does it take to scotch and clip a set of
points?) for enabling works for the closure.

Dangit. Won't be here to bash those crossovers.


From Monday 10 January a new timetable (TT40) will be in place
for 20 months which means all trains will run direct to Heathrow
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I wonder if TT40 bears any resemblance to the pre-1986 timetable,
before the Heathrow loop even existed.