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-septembe
r.org, (Recliner) wrote:

Roland Perry wrote:
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-septembe
r.org, at 00:27:53 on Thu, 5 May 2016, Recliner
remarked:

I don't think the runway has moved much - the eastern end is
stubbornly just west of the M4 spur. Apart from moving the terminal
from near that spur to west of T5, the plan which may be the latest
one doesn't require the M25/M4 junction to be rebuilt - which may or
may not be part of the OP's £16bn.

It is further to the west. See chapters 7 and 8 in this, which I think
is the latest, document which describes the plan the Airports
Commission prefers:

http://www.heathrow.com/file_source/...ewsandinformat
ion/taking_britain_further.pdf

It would appear that I had latched onto a plan with the Northwest
runway in that same place, but the terminal at Sipson. Must have
been an intermediate idea.

the West terminal station(s) will have two more platforms. I see they
envisage the western/southern rail links having a combined 10 (4+6) tph
by 2040.

Two more than 2 plus 2 plus secret-two?

It's a bit vague on whether the western/southern links are
standalone, or though trains with double-counting of most of the
HEx/Crossrail ones. Although a train arriving from London and
departing to Reading could in some sense be called
two-destinations-per-hour.

I read it to mean four through tph on the existing HEx platforms, running
to the northwest (Reading, etc), plus six tph terminators from the
southwest on the hidden pair.

I went along yesterday to do some track-bashing under Heathrow and will
post some pics later today.

I'm puzzled how they have a direct rail link to Sheffield (and only
Sheffield) on p35.

All the long distance stuff looks no more than speculation, as it's really
nothing to do with HAL Ltd. Once the connections are in, it's up to the
TOCs and the DfT how they're used.

Unless it was a pretty lame attempt to get support from the last Deputy
Prime Minister, I suspect they meant Shenfield.

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Colin Rosenstiel