TfL 'wants to double' number of Elizabeth line trains serving Heathrow airport Terminal 5 Transport for London wants to double the number of Elizabeth line trains serving Heathrow airport’s Terminal 5, The Standard can reveal.
Mr Lord, who used to work at Heathrow for British Airways, said TfL had not realised how many passengers would transfer to the Elizabeth line from the Heathrow Express, “which is good for us”.
Sir Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, who opposes the third runway plans, says Heathrow would be expected to cover the cost of new public transport links to the new terminal that a third runway would probably need.
However he admitted it could be technically difficult to achieve, as the new trains would need to be integrated into existing service patterns across the rest of the Elizabeth line - and on Network Rail infrastructure west of Paddington and east of Liverpool Street, where they share track with other train companies.
“Clearly if the airport does get approval to expand, we will need to significantly increase the public transport proposition, rail capacity, bus capacity, active travel – and we would need to understand how Heathrow would pay for that,” he said.
