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Heathrow third runway to get the go ahead
On 15 Jan, 16:29, "Peter Masson" wrote: (snip) I really can't see how a HSL from St Pancras, or more likely Euston as that's the only obvious space for the terminus, via Heathrow, will work. It would have to be in tunnel at least pretty well all the way to Heathrow, and with a stop there is only going to be marginally quicker to the West Midlands than going at 125 mph down the WCML. The Greengauge proposals (head out of London via Northolt Junction, and follow the general alignment of the Chiltern Line/M40, serving Heathrow with a branch, joining the main HSL in the vicinity of Denham) seem to me to be more rational. Quite - the basic fact that is that none of these places fall neatly in a straight line. No spin can change that. I suppose Heathrow could be a branch off a more direct Brum to London HS2 line, perhaps as a simple terminus. Obvious this would mean separate train services would need to run from either Heathrow or Euston to and from points north. If the CTRL had been built via a southern route then this Heathrow branch could have been extended on to meet the CTRL, perhaps in a subterranean junction somewhere under south London. This could have provided for through international services via Heathrow to the continent and beyond. But it wasn't so it can't! |
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