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Heathrow Connect - can't connect !!
SB wrote: Late last week and all this weekend 18/19-June-2005) the brand new multimillion pound Heathrow Connect service has - well - not actually connected with Heathrow. Due to the pathing problems (sorry signaling problems) at Airport Junction the service has had great difficulty in keeping to any sort of timetable. Indeed the delays have built up every day until the last trains to/from Paddington/Heathrow have been anything up to 45 minutes late. The problem is that coming out of or going into the Airport the trains have to be switched from the slow local lines across the fast Intercity lines. This has meant that all trains have had to be halted to allow the Connect trains to enter/exit the Airport Branch. The solution has been to terminate the Connect trains at Hayes & Harlington and tell the pax to catch the 140 bus to Heathrow. Well at least the bus is only 1.20 rather than 6 pounds for this short one mile journey!! SB. I thought the intention was to run the Heathrow bound trains the "wrong way" through Airport Junction, ie. up the track between the main and relief lines? I have seen platform 5 used at Hayes rather a lot this week. Also, does anyone know what FGWL is doing with the spare 165`s they`d have freed up? Some of the rush hour trains could do with a bit of lengthening... Stu |
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ups.com... Also, does anyone know what FGWL is doing with the spare 165`s they`d have freed up? Some of the rush hour trains could do with a bit of lengthening... IIRC, they have (had?) three or four on loan from Chiltern, which one would expect to be going back to them now. |
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