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Jeremy Parker wrote:

Last night (16 July) Chiltern Railways gave a presentation and
question/answer session about their plans for a new interchange
station at West Hampstead, which I went along to.

There have long been (vague) plans for a Heathrow Express II, which
would branch off from the present route along the Wormwood
Scrubs-Cricklewood line, stopping at W. Hampstead on the way to St.
Pancras, or somewhere. Was that possibility mentioned?


A Heathrow-St Pancras stopping service was considered in some time ago
(1996) but was later discarded (2001 ?). There is no provision for it in
the St Pancras rebuilding. It is to be replaced by the proposed
Paddington-Heathrow stopping service starting Dec 2004 for which new
trains have recently been ordered. Presumably this will eventually be
replaced by the Heathrow Crossrail service.

For a good summary of the situation up to the end of 2001 see John
Rowland's site:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro.../tpftla_h.html

David