Tuesday, August 09, 2016

A lost line: Staines and West Drayton



Another video from the people at Londonist. This one finds some appealing fragments of the southern half of the line and that the northern half - from West Drayton to Colnbrook - is still open for freight traffic.

You can read more about this line on the Disused Stations page for Staines West.

2 comments:

  1. A portion of this line was intended to form part of the (now mothballed) Airtrack project to provide direct rail links into Heathrow from the SWT lines

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  2. The northern section thats's still in use passes right through the middle of the M4/M25 interchange. Now used to carry aviation fuel for Heathrow.

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