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Posted by Fytton on Fri Oct 22 10:34:22 2004, in response to Re: London's five-year plan, posted by Peter Rosa on Fri Oct 22 09:24:49 2004. It's not just access from Heathrow to The City (i.e. the finance district, London's equivalent of Downtown NYC) that's needed, it's also access to The West End, which is London's equivalent of Midtown. Terminating the Heathrow Express at Paddington provides direct access to neither; it is rather like building an express line from JFK and then terminating it at Long Island City.As the Heathrow Express line is a branch off the old Great Western Main Line, the only possible ways of using existing lines to get trains from Heathrow into any terminus other than Paddington would be very circuitous and slow, and would also have conflicting movements with many busy suburban routes. To reach Charing Cross, for example (which is the best-situated of all the London termini for access to The West End), you would have get from Heathrow, which is 15 miles west of Central Lnodon and north of the Thames, to the approaches to London Bridge station, which are south of the river and several miles out to the southeast - and very congested. Any direct route from west of London to the heart of The West End and The City necessarily involves tunnels, either of tube or of main line dimensions. |
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