"plain daft". Nicely put, thanks! Adding a stop at Ealing Broadway
would clear some of those things up whilst still giving more leverage
when negotiating with BAA to incorporate the HEx services into
Crossrail than an all stations service (esp with a better frequency).
It's illogical to think that transport improvements can be made
without spending some money.


On 6 Jan, 16:24, "Richard J." wrote:
Ben wrote:
Re the confusion of Crossrail as an inner or outer service & The
Central/District/Piccadilly western branches:

Just had the thought (and posted it elsewhere) that there might be
benefit from extending the Central line from Ealing to Hayes &
Halington (inner) and leaving Crossrail to do:
*Paddington, Hayes & Harlington, Heathrow
*Padding - Hayes & Harlington - West Drayton, Iver, Langley, Slough,
Burnham, Taplow, Maidenhead, Twyford, Reading.

This gives an express service from central London to Heathrow as
well as decent and simple (reliable) service pattern for the 'slow'
Reading trains. The only thing I can see which might prevent this
is whether it is practical to extend the Central line to H&H.

Expensive if you need dedicated tracks, as presumably you intend. If it
was affordable, it would have been proposed instead of the Uxbridge Road
tram.

Your plan also
(a) denies people from Ealing Broadway, West Ealing, Hanwell, and
Southall a direct service to Heathrow which they currently get from
Heathrow Connect,
(b) denies people from west of Hayes a direct service to connect with
the District Line at Ealing Broadway.
(c) denies Ealing Broadway any Crossrail service at all. As Ealing is a
major traffic generator in its own right, this is plain daft.

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Richard J.
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