Draft:Heathrow Southern Railway

Heathrow Southern Railway Limited

Heathrow Southern Railway Logo
Formation	2016 June 16
Location	London, England
Chair	Jo Valentine
Executive Director(s)	Steven Costello, Chris Stokes

Heathrow Southern Railway Limited is a private limited company with its headquarters located in London, England. Founded on 16 June 2016, they state their goal as a company is to improve the railway access into Heathrow Airport in anticipation of the proposed third runway which was approved by the British Government on 25 October 2016. It attempts to accomplish this through the creation of new railway routes which improve access to both the western and south-western lines while also creating more routes for trains coming from Clapham Junction and Waterloo helping to ease congestion.

Founding

Heathrow Southern Railway Ltd was officially incorporated into the United Kingdom's registrar of companies on 16 June 2016 with its founding member being Steven Costello. The other members of the company originated from already existing travel and business orginisations such as London First, Inter-City and TT international. The company was formed with the goal of creating a new rail route, a route which would increase rail access to and from Heathrow Airport while also creating new routes to other parts of the country.

Proposed southern railway route

Heathrow Southern Railway's proposed additional train routes for increased access to Heathrow to help compensate for the increased traffic from the third runway add to the pre-existing south-western mainline by connecting Heathrow to the Byfleet junction allowing trains to change to the slow lines there, this would work in tandem with Network Rail's Western Rail Approach to Heathrow in order to meet increased capacity predictions if the third runway at heathrow is to be implemented. To achieve this an additional 8 miles of track is required with a bridge planned above the M3, while the track runs alongside the M25. This will also increase accessibility into London from the south and south-west, mainly increasing access to Waterloo and Clapham Junction, while also allowing for new routes such as the new Basingstoke to Paddington route. Using Network Rail's modelling system it has been determined that this new line will be able to carry four trains per hour. Furthermore Heathrow Southern Railway recognises with their proposal of a bay platform at Staines station there is an opportunity for an extension of the Elizabeth line to Staines to create more routes into London.

Funding

Heathrow Southern Railway is a privately financed corporation and the planned expanded route is also planned to be financed privately, with ownership remaining in the private sector after and during the development process. While being owned by Heathrow Southern Railway the infrastructure is intended to be monitored by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), the operation and maintenance of the route is planned to be contracted out to other corporations. The proposed route(s) will require the construction of another 8 miles of railway which has been estimated to require about 1.2 billion pounds.

See also

Heathrow Airport

Expansion of Heathrow Airport

Western Rail Approach to Heathrow

London First

InterCity (British Rail)

External links

Official Website

British Registrar