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[email protected] · September 27th 06, 09:27 AM posted to uk.transport.london

Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
In article .com,
() wrote:

Clive D. W. Feather wrote:
That's forced by the physical layout:

T5 ---------*-- T123 ---------------* HX ----- London
/ /
| /
\ /
\-------- T4 -------/

Probably a stupid question, but why was the decision taken to
construct the line in that layout, rather than extending the loop so
trains would call HX, T4, T5, T123?

Geography? Have you looked where Terminals 4 and 5 actually are?

Thanks for that informative reponse.

Are the terminals really so far apart that a three station loop would
have been impractical? It just seems a more logical service pattern
than some loop, some terminating.

Patrick