Originally Posted by
Scillybear
In addition to this, connecting LHR into the wider long distance network (as at FRA) would certainly be a good thing - although the GWR link would be limited to linking to the South west and possibly the line up to Birmingham via Oxford. In that sense FRA is luckier being more at the centre of the German ICE network.
The points between the Heathrow spur and the main line point connect only to/from London, it isn't possible to go from the Reading direction down to Heathrow unless you go to London first and then back out again. I don't know if they plan to install track to remedy that?
The HEX has always been a bit of a strange beast to me - a bit OTT.
This is not the off topic part of the thread.
