Heathrow Terminal 5 station

Heathrow Terminal 5 is an underground railway station for train and metro in the London Borough of Hillingdon. It lies under the Terminal 5 at London Heathrow Airport, which has been built on the site of a former sewage treatment plant. In the year 2011 there were 3.21 million subway passengers the station.

The opening of the station on March 27, 2008. He is the terminus of the Piccadilly Line of the London Underground and the Heathrow Express airport bus from Paddington Station in central London. Every second subway train runs here, the other half is traveling as before the single track loop through Terminal 4, there are currently no plans to build a direct rail connection between terminals 4 and 5.

At the station the establishment of two additional platforms is planned in the medium term that will serve the traffic on a planned railway feeder route. This is called Heathrow AirTrack and should allow in Staines a second connection to the railway network of National Rail. Every half hour could operate trains to London Waterloo, Woking and Reading. Even the Heathrow Express to be bound by and Staines.