"DAVID, YOUR FELLOW RIGHT-WING TORIES AT WANDSWORTH HAVE MADE THIS SEEMINGLY REASONABLE PROPOSAL. BAA ARE INNOCENT. DO YOU HAVE THE BALLS TO APOLOGISE FOR YOUR UNJUSTIFIED ATTACK ON BAA OR ARE YOU REALLY A POLITICAL EUNUCH AS SOME OF YOUR PARTY COLLEAGUES HAVE IMPLIED?"Giles' Law - whatever David Giles posts, assume the opposite is true until such time as reliable sources are available. Applies in full here, it's obvious that the effect on Chiswick is to divert the Hounslow Loop's Weybridge stoppers to Heathrow at the western end.They've missed out two level crossings on the map though, there's one just west of Barnes on the Hounslow Loop as well as Grove Park Terrace. However, that's academic as the whole thrust of the exercise appears to be trying to squeeze a quart out of a pint pot by serving more destinations with the same (crowded) trains, with the dubious addition of being able to get direct to Heathrow T5 rather slowly.The Hounslow Loop is limited to 8 cars by infrastructure constraints that are rather costly to remove and, although there's an aspiration to move to 10 cars on the Windsor lines, that's before adding in trying to serve a major international airport from the same trains.
Thomas Barry ● 4940d