Someone Somewhere wrote:


That it might be, but it's such a significant discount that it would be
annoying to rock up and pay the full fare only to get on to find the
train full of smug pensioners who had paid a mere pittance who would
normally go a different route to save money at a cost of time.


Or maybe they'd just go the same route and pay more. In any case they don't
get reserved seats, so you've just got to beat them through the door when
the train arrives.

What is does do is destroy the case for taking the Heathrow Connect.


Heathrow Connect is intended (or was originally, at any rate) for local
traffic to the airport.


Anna Noyd-Dryver