page_title: Staines railway station
section_title: Additional route and track proposals
hierarchical_section_title: Staines railway station / Service expansion schemes / Additional route and track proposals
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of the proposed route of the Heathrow Southern Railway, linking Heathrow Airport to existing railway lines in west London This map was created from OpenStreetMap project data, collected by the community. This map may be incomplete, and may contain errors. Don't rely solely on it for navigation.
context_page_description: Staines railway station is on the Waterloo to Reading line and is the junction station for the diverging Windsor line, in southern England to the west of London. It is 19 miles 2 chains down the line from London Waterloo.
context_section_description: Since 2000, a number of transport proposals have been put forward to improve rail connections with Heathrow Airport. The Heathrow Airtrack scheme, proposed in 2000 by BAA, envisaged the creation of a direct rail service from Heathrow Airport via Staines to Waterloo. The scheme would have involved reopening part of the disused Staines and West Drayton line and the construction of a spur line to  Heathrow Terminal 5. A new station was also planned close to the site of the former Staines High Street railway station. The new link would also have enabled the existing Heathrow Express service to be extended from Heathrow to terminate at Staines. Heathrow Airtrack was abandoned in 2011 due to forecast problems with the large number of level crossings on the route into London.
  A further scheme for new rail links to Heathrow via Staines is currently at the proposal stage. The Heathrow Southern Railway was put forward by a business consortium to create links west of Heathrow Airport with the Waterloo–Reading line, the Great Western main line and the Hounslow Loop Line, including a link to Staines. The plans include the construction of an extra platform at Staines to accommodate a possible extension of the Elizabeth Line (Crossrail) to terminate here.
  Two early 21st century proposals short of central government pledge stage, or Network Rail proposals, exist for the Hounslow Loop Line, further details of which are mentioned at Syon Lane.
caption: Heathrow Southern Railway (proposed)
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