Editor JAMES ABBOTT joins Windsor Link promoter GEORGE BATHURST for a walk round the royal borough
Joining Windsor & Eton Central to Windsor & Eton Riverside station with a cross-town tunnel and a new sub-surface station? The Windsor Link Railway (WLR) sounded like a completely bonkers idea when I first heard of it a couple of years back. Why would you want to spend millions linking two lines of marginal importance? Completely batty.
Although, when you look a little closer, not so much. You get the real estate gains from freeing up the existing stations, yes, that’s a no-brainer. But the new line under Windsor would also give a potential western approach to Heathrow Airport – that excites curiosity. And you’d be joining lots of places in the Thames Valley regional powerhouse that are poorly-connected by public transport at present and where road congestion is appalling.
