"S.Byers" wrote in message
om...
When the new HEX Connect service starts the local service from
Paddington to Hayes will have to terminate at Hayes at the rarely used
bay platform 5.

However next year when the Connect service goes from Paddington to
Hayes to Heathrow it will have to stop at platform 1 - the platform on
the fast down line.

Otherwise it will have to use the down local platform 3 - but then it
will have to cross both fast lines to get onto the Heathrow branch.

I imagine it will use platform 3 then the Up spur from Airport Junction -
the line is reversible - and cross to the down Airport line before entering
the tunnel to Heathrow 123. This way it won't conflict with the fast lines
at all, but the Up spur will be quite intensively used, with four Up
Heathrow Expresses, two Up Heathrow Connects, and two Down Heathrow
Connects.

Peter