On Aug 11, 12:40 pm, Mr Thant
wrote:
For a short period in 1998 before the Heathrow Express tunnels opened,
trains started running to a temporary station called Heathrow Junction
somewhere near the tunnel mouth. Does anyone have any details about
exactly where it was and what it amounted to, or even photos of it?

I'm assuming this isn't a return to bloggage :-(

Here's an article on the location:
http://www.glias.org.uk/news/176news.html#C

This DVD apparently has footage of the station, if you're willing to
give them GBP20:
http://www.train-crazy.co.uk/shop/pr...oducts_id=1420

I'd guess the terminus was a single-platform job on the wasteland
immediately to the east of the airport spur he
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&ll...4181,-0.448315

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On Aug 11, 12:40 pm, Mr Thant
wrote:
For a short period in 1998 before the Heathrow Express tunnels opened,
trains started running to a temporary station called Heathrow Junction
somewhere near the tunnel mouth. Does anyone have any details about
exactly where it was and what it amounted to, or even photos of it?

I'm assuming this isn't a return to bloggage :-(

Here's an article on the location:
http://www.glias.org.uk/news/176news.html#C

This DVD apparently has footage of the station, if you're willing to
give them GBP20:
http://www.train-crazy.co.uk/shop/pr...oducts_id=1420

I'd guess the terminus was a single-platform job on the wasteland
immediately to the east of the airport spur he
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&ll...4181,-0.448315

It operated from January to May 1998. There is a photograph in the March
1998 MR, showing an "island" platform with a single rail track one side, and
a bus for the link to the airport terminals the other side.

Peter

On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:13:50 -0700, John B wrote:
I'd guess the terminus was a single-platform job on the wasteland
immediately to the east of the airport spur he
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&ll...4181,-0.448315


Where the two loose rails are in between the tracks on the spur, there
appears to be a raised area if you zoom in far enough. Was this once a
platform?

peter

In uk.railway naked_draughtsman wrote:
Where the two loose rails are in between the tracks on the spur, there
appears to be a raised area if you zoom in far enough. Was this once a
platform?

In that area on Multimap Bird's Eye there seems to be a few S&T cabinets,
but no platform.

Just before the tunnel mouth there's a row of yellow flat wagons and a pair
of shipping containers, on a disconnected piece of track:
http://tinyurl.com/59fcys
There might be a partial platform section behind the shipping containers,
but it's hard to tell.

Theo