"Paul Corfield" wrote in message

On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:30:52 -0000, "Recliner"
wrote:

"Basil Jet" wrote in message

Apparently Heathrow T4 tube station has fewer passengers than West
Harrow and West Finchley!
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloa...d-stations.pdf

T4 is the quietest Heathrow LU station, but the numbers may be lower
than usual as that report covers a period when BA was moving out and
the terminal was being refurbished for its new tenants (Air France,
Alitalia, etc). The T4 station also has quite a poor Tube service,
and maybe some pax use the free Heathrow Express service to T123.

And your comments have also prompted the thought that the figures
might have been produced when T4 station and the loop was closed to
allow the T5 junction to be built.

I wondered about that, too, but I think that the T4 station was fully
reopened in 2006, while this report covers 2008, so the traffic
shouldn't have been affected by the junction construction work. But it
does cover the period when T5 opened, and BA flights were transferred in
waves from T1 and T4. The T2 airlines' move to T4 was delayed, and is
still not complete. So T4 has had significantly less traffic since March
2008 than it did previously, or is likely to have from 2010, when T2
will be shut. Even then, I'm not sure if the new tenants will generate
as much traffic as BA did.