HEATHROW SOUTHERN Investor and Partner RAILWAY Transforming Rail Access to Heathrow Airport An innovative, privately financed new railway expanding train connections across London and southern England RAIL NETWORK CONNECTS POSITIVE EFFECT ON MODAL SHIFT BENEFITS COMMUNITIES THE ENVIRONMENT TO RAIL A new orbital route from Fast, frequent trains from Reduces emissions by Transfers 3 million road Hampshire and Surrey to Surrey, Hampshire and 8,600 tonnes of CO2 and journeys per year to rail Old Oak Common and South West London to 2 tons of NOx per year London Paddington Heathrow Airport GLOBAL GROWTH AND DELIVERABLE AFFORDABLE AND COMPETITIVENESS REGENERATION 10 km of new railway VALUE FOR MONEY Linking the region’s Enabling people to reach mainly in tunnel, filling a User funded, privately businesses to inward the jobs at Heathrow by missing link in the existing financed at no cost to investment and export public transport network taxpayers, from 2028 opportunities About the project Improving access to Heathrow Airport by train is an important environmental objective. Far too many passengers have no alternative but to use car, contributing to congestion and poor, illegal air quality in the area. Currently Heathrow is not linked at all by train to Surrey, Hampshire or South and South Proposed route Map Key West London. We aim to change that with Our proposed route starts at Heathrow’s Terminal 5 our innovative scheme which would serve the station and is intended to run mainly in tunnel and Heathrow Southern Railway Proposed Rail Infrastructure following major markets: be electrified to minimise environmental impact. Existing Rail Infrastructure ■ Fast, frequent direct trains from Surrey and It rises to the surface to connect to the existing Hampshire to Heathrow. railway near Staines and Virginia Water. Motorways ■ Direct trains to Heathrow from stations in the Boroughs of Spelthorne, Hounslow, Richmond, Wandsworth, and Lambeth To Reading Great Western M25 Main Line including Waterloo and Clapham Junction West Drayton To Paddington for connections to South London, Sussex Iver and Kent. Langley Hayes & Harlington ■ Direct trains from Surrey and Hampshire to Paddington, creating an alternative London M4 M4 Heathrow terminal to Waterloo for commuters with Airport To Windsor excellent connections to the West End, the T5 T2&3 City, and Docklands via the Elizabeth Line. ■ Direct trains from Surrey and Hampshire Wraysbury to Old Oak Common, providing a direct connection to HS2. There are also plans for T4 23,500 new homes and 65,000 new jobs Feltham To Clapham Jct/ Waterloo around the new HS2 station. ■ Crowding relief to the South Western main Ashford Egham line and the London Underground network Staines Kempton Park at Waterloo. ■ Possible direct access to Heathrow from Sunbury Southampton, Portsmouth, Bournemouth, To Clapham Jct/ Virginia Water Upper Halliford Waterloo Reading, Bracknell and Wokingham. To Reading M3 Shepperton Chertsey Esher South Western Hersham Main Line Parliamentary Question from Angela Addlestone Richardson MP, Guildford: Walton-on-Thames “To ask the Secretary of State for M25 Transport, what progress has been Weybridge made on the development of a Byfleet & southern link to Heathrow Airport.” New Haw West Byfleet Answer from Chris Heaton-Harris MP, Minister of State, UK Department for Transport, 17 March 2021: To Basingstoke Woking “Work is underway to complete the Pre-Strategic Outline Business Case alongside the continued development The route illustrated above is purely indicative and is of an appropriate commercial model To Guildford not intended to show a definitive alignment. to enable a ‘market involved’ approach for Southern Access to Heathrow Funding (SAtH). A new company – Heathrow Southern The Train Operating Companies which will Railway Ltd (HSRL) – will build and own the provide passenger rail services over the The Department intends to provide infrastructure, the capital cost of which is new infrastructure will pay access charges further guidance to the market estimated to be around £1.3billion (2016/17 regarding the proposed commercial to HSRL, the framework for which will be direction and next steps, including the prices). regulated by the ORR. Our business case process for selection of a development The scheme will be privately financed and will does not rely on premium fares being charged. partner in Summer 2021. be licensed by the Office of Rail and Road Our forecasting shows that the new to rail revenues which arise from the new services Government remains committed to (ORR). HSRL will be at risk for the costs of SAtH’s status as a ‘pathfinder’ project development, construction and availability to / via Heathrow will be sufficient to cover that can harness ideas and expertise of the new railway, in return for contractual the operating costs and access charges of from the private sector to fund, commitments from the Department for the new railway, meaning that the scheme finance and deliver this scheme. Transport to underwrite a defined quantum of in operation once mature is not expected to train paths. require subsidy from taxpayers. Service opportunities Heathrow Southern Railway brings more trains to HeathrowOur vision Airport for rail and services creates at aHeathr new routeow in forthe commuters late 2020s HS2 Birmingham Oxford North West West Midlands East Midlands North East Reading Slough Bristol Great Western Main Line Euston South Wales West End City Our vision for rail services atOld Heathr Oak owPaddingto in then late 2020sDocklands Heathrow Common HS2 Birmingham T5 T2&3 r Oxford North West West Midlands East Midlands Charing Cross West of Wokingham North East England Windso Reading Slough Bristol Great Western Main Line Victoria Euston South Wales Waterloo East Hounslow Brentford Overground Waterloo West End T4 City Old Oak Paddington Docklands Heathrow Common Bracknell T5 T2&3 r South East London Charing Cross West of Wokingham Kent England Windso Victoria Waterloo East T4 Hounslow Brentford ClaphamOverground JunctioWaterloon Staines BracknellTwickenham Richmond South East London Kent Clapham Junction Staines Twickenham Richmond Overground Farnborough (Main) Woking Southampton South London Overground Farnborough (Main) Woking Bournemouth Southampton Croydon South London Basingstoke Bournemouth South Western Main Line Gatwick Croydon Basingstoke South Western Main Line Gatwick Brighton Brighton Guildford Guildford Map Key Portsmouth Map Key Basingstoke/Guildford - Woking - Heathrow - Paddington Portsmouth Possible extensions to Reading, Portsmouth, Southampton and Bournemouth Basingstoke/Guildford - WokingWaterloo - - Heathrow - Paddington Elizabeth Line Possible extensions to Reading, Portsmouth, Southampton and Bournemouth Proposed new Heathrow Southern Railway Infrastructure Waterloo - Heathrow Elizabeth Line Projected Rail Journey Times enabled by HeathrowProposed new Southern Heathrow Southern Railway InfrastructureRailway Via the green line: Basingstoke/Guildford – Woking – Heathrow – Paddington Journey Times (minutes) Woking Guildford Farnborough Basingstoke Trains would operate every half hour from Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 19 29 30 43 Basingstoke, Farnborough, and Guildford, and every 15 minutes from Woking, to Heathrow, with journey Heathrow Airport Terminals 2 & 3 23 33 34 47 times faster than road. Heathrow Southern Railway Old Oak Common For HS2 and is more than just an airport rail link as after Heathrow 37 47 48 61 Elizabeth Line these trains would continue to Old Oak Common and Paddington creating new connections to HS2 and London Paddington 42 52 53 66 the Elizabeth Line. Some trains could set out from as far away as the Solent or Dorset. Via the yellow line: Heathrow – Staines – Clapham Clapham Junction – Waterloo Journey Times (minutes) Putney Richmond Hounslow Staines Junction Services would be fully integrated with the South Western network via Staines-upon-Thames, creating Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 37 33 26 19 6 four high capacity, direct trains per hour between London Waterloo and Heathrow, half via Richmond and half via Hounslow. Via the dotted green line: Heathrow – Bracknell – Wokingham – Reading Direct from Reading, providing a fast and reliable connection at Reading from South Wales and the West of England to Heathrow as well as serving Wokingham and Bracknell. What happens next? Chris Stokes, Chief Executive of Heathrow local jobs and overall economic buoyancy. If Consumers are becoming ever more aware Southern Railway Limited (HSRL), writes: the Government wants to secure the future of of how their own choices have environmental A sceptic might legitimately ask why we need Heathrow’s international competitiveness within consequences, and will expect to be able to a new railway to an airport when fewer people its existing air traffic movement constraints, undertake end to end journeys by the most are using either trains or ‘planes. Here are two one obvious change would be to accelerate the sustainable means possible. An airline passenger reasons. improvement of its surface access which, to the of the near future will be more likely to choose an south and west, is non-existent other than by airport which can be accessed by zero-emission Firstly, Heathrow Airport is always going to be important to the economy of the UK and, in road. public transport. Heathrow is desperately lacking particular, to its most commercially powerful The second reason for approving a southern in this regard. region – London and the South East of England. rail link