The Sunday Times is reporting that Heathrow Airport wants a construction
cost contribution fee of £597+£138 for maintenance for each Crossrail train
that uses its tunnels and stations. It says that the DfT estimates that
this could cost Crossrail £40m per year.

The question isn't whether a fee should be charged, but just how high it
is. Apparently ORR will have the final say. I wonder how much the fee is
for the current HC trains?

See.
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/...cle1649322.ece
(£)

I suppose this is one way HAL can keep HEx alive: by making Crossrail also
charge premium fares to Heathrow.