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Number of tracks on the T5 extension?
Morning all,
The branch line from Hayes and Harlington to Heathrow Airport is being, or has been, extended to Terminal 5, right? Now, warm-up question, what's that line called? I have a map calling the tracks 'up airport' and 'down airport', so is it the 'Great Western airport line'? That sounds absurd clunky. But if i just call it the Heathrow line, people might think i mean a bit of the Picc. Anyway. So, that line is two-track to Heathrow Central, where it singles down for the bit to T4. This map i have also shows the extension to T5 as single-track. Is that true? I have also read that the station box at T5 is big enough for four tracks and four platforms; even with an eye to building AirTrack in the future, that seems like overkill for a single track line. Not to mention that AirTrack and a single-track stretch from T5 to T123 won't mix well. Oh, and how are the railway and the Piccadilly line disposed at T5? Will they be at the same level or what? Are there diagrams of this somewhere that i can look at? tom -- Subvert the paradigm! |
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