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Reading station was intended to be the western terminus for the proposed Heathrow Airtrack rail service. This project, promoted by BAA , envisaged the construction of a spur from the Waterloo to Reading Line to Heathrow Airport , creating direct rail links from the airport to Reading, London Waterloo, Woking and Guildford .
The Elizabeth line runs on the Great Western Main Line between London and Reading. Fast Heathrow Express trains from Paddington to London Heathrow Airport are operated by GWR on behalf of Heathrow Airport Holdings. [36] CrossCountry operate trains between Reading and Oxford, using the Great Western Main Line as far as Didcot.
A further scheme for new rail links to Heathrow via Staines is currently at the proposal stage. The Heathrow Southern Railway was put forward by a business consortium to create links west of Heathrow Airport with the Waterloo–Reading line, the Great Western Main Line and the Hounslow Loop Line, including a link to Staines.
The Elizabeth line is a railway line that carries passengers across Greater London and nearby towns. It runs services on dedicated infrastructure in central London from the Great Western Main Line west of Paddington station to Abbey Wood and via Whitechapel to the Great Eastern Main Line near Stratford; along the Great Western Main Line to Reading and Heathrow Airport in the west; and along ...
This is a route-map template for a Transport for London rail service. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
TfL Rail inherited five Class 360 units from Heathrow Connect when it took over operations on 20 May 2018. These trains were used to operate the existing half-hourly (2tph) service to Heathrow. [21] On 30 July 2020, Class 345 trains entered passenger service on the Heathrow branch. [14] The last Class 360 trains were withdrawn in September 2020 ...
The station was opened on 23 June 1998 upon the completion of the Heathrow Express Rail Link linking Heathrow Airport with direct non-stop services to Central London. In contrast to the station at Terminal 5, the platforms at Heathrow Central do not lie adjacent to the London Underground Piccadilly line platforms at Heathrow Terminals 2 & 3 ...
On 20 November 2014, Network Rail published a plan, the Wessex Route Study, for wide consultation; [24] its recommendations are to abolish the running of trains shorter than 10 coaches to Reading except in very low usage hours and to open more of the platforms at the former London Waterloo International with a suggested target date of 2019.