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A western link to Heathrow is well in keeping with the everywhere to everywhere philosophy, also seen in the number of places which have a direct connection to Manchester airport. The inbound line would need to cross the GWML down tracks, presumably by flyover or tunnel, so would already be on a cost par with doing the same thing at the east Heathrow junction, withour adding the new tracks and the mooted tunnel. On a list of the 99 most-needed rail projects, I’d have this one in three figures.
@Garry Brown
Given that the existing connection to the Colnbrook Oil terminal is 1.5km away from Heathrow Terminal 5 and this already has a dive-under the GWML, running a single track on the existing rail is just a bit of electrification an “simple” flip over of the West Drayton junction. The hardest part would be the under-M25 bit!