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Re: Pic Line -> Heathrow T5

Posted: 23 Apr 2008, 21:33
by eurovision50
OH SODDING HEATHROW! Right, that's it. To cut pollution, you're all required to WALK there. Stuff the trains!

Re: Pic Line -> Heathrow T5

Posted: 24 Apr 2008, 11:42
by Dr Who
Well this is what I would do:
Image

The blue line is the Piccadilly Line.
The Green & Red lines are new metro systems operated by BAA

Re: Pic Line -> Heathrow T5

Posted: 24 Apr 2008, 19:32
by eurovision50
I don't quite understand the point of that.

Re: Pic Line -> Heathrow T5

Posted: 24 Apr 2008, 19:49
by Dr Who
Well it makes the full network challenge a lot easier

Re: Pic Line -> Heathrow T5

Posted: 24 Apr 2008, 21:10
by sweek
Pity people changing from T5 to T4 there! But Heathrow Airport is already working on its own little transport syste for connecting flights I think.

If a hub was created, it might as well be done at T123, the biggest terminal with two tracks to the rest of the Picc. A T6 would be created north-west of the current T123, yes.

Re: Pic Line -> Heathrow T5

Posted: 25 Apr 2008, 02:27
by mullardo
Image

I have updated my idea with a piccy.

Blue is piccadilly. Yellow is HeX/Connect. Green is Crossrail (Could go to T 1,2,3 instead). Pink is the line towards Staines/Woking. Red is the Heathrow "Circular".

Note: All lines go in both directions.

Re: Pic Line -> Heathrow T5

Posted: 25 Apr 2008, 14:50
by sweek
Crossrail will use the same track as Heathrow Express, though, and will be taking over Heathrow Connect.
There is speculation that it will also take over the existing Heathrow Connect and run those trains further into London.

Anyway, those aren't being constructed towards T5.

Re: Pic Line -> Heathrow T5

Posted: 06 May 2008, 01:45
by Hammer
As someone whose local station is Olympia, I take affront to the branch being called pointless :D

Re: Pic Line -> Heathrow T5

Posted: 06 May 2008, 17:36
by Starkey7
Wow! That's almost as amazing as finding a Roding Valleyer!

Re: Pic Line -> Heathrow T5

Posted: 06 May 2008, 18:42
by editorsfoot
As someone else has bumped this I guess I can put forward my idea as I watched mass confusion on the Piccadilly yet again on Sunday.

What I would do is to reverse the Heathrow 4 loop, meaning that trains would run H1234 or H1235. The lay over at T4 would mean that you would avoid the confusion of trains pulling in at 123 then another train leaving first, and with every train going to H123 first you would cater for the masses.

Re: Pic Line -> Heathrow T5

Posted: 06 May 2008, 19:48
by Hammer
Starkey7 wrote:Wow! That's almost as amazing as finding a Roding Valleyer!
Well, usually it's a choice between Olympia and Shepherd's Bush, but at the moment...

Re: Pic Line -> Heathrow T5

Posted: 06 May 2008, 20:31
by mullardo
Ok people Challenge Time

Keeping all tube stations where they are geographically (You may add stations or merge them), The best new tube map - with new lines, revised lines etc. gets brownie points.

Re: Pic Line -> Heathrow T5

Posted: 06 May 2008, 21:16
by Root
Yes we are... unfortunately mine got accidentally deleted, so I'll have to start work on a new one.