• A proposal to connect Heathrow directly to the South West Trains rail network.
  • Comprised of three new services to Terminal 5, via Staines: from London Waterloo via Richmond; Guildford via Woking and Reading via Bracknell, with stops at selected stations on each route.
  • Planned to operate every 30 minutes in each direction on each route, making six trains an hour to and from Heathrow, with end-to-end journey times of between 35 and 45 minutes.
  • To run over 95km of the existing rail network.
  • Going to require construction of just 4 km of new railway to connect the new station at Heathrow Terminal 5 to the existing Windsor line near Staines and the re-building of 400m of railway in Staines (to allow trains to access the existing line to Reading).
  • When completed, an opportunity for more rail service options in the future.