Ditch the plane, take the train Heathrow to Paris plan (From This Is Local London)

Ditch the plane, take the train Heathrow to Paris plan

4:36pm Monday 3rd December 2007

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Channel Tunnel planners have drawn up a blueprint for a fast rail line connecting Heathrow and Paris.

Arup, the engineering firm responsible for planning the Channel Tunnel link to Stratford, is expected to release the Heathrow-Paris proposal at the launch of a history of the existing rail link.

The Right Line, a history of the high-speed rail link is being launched tonight at a parliamentary reception.

According to media reports, the Arup plan would see the Eurostar line, which terminates at St Pancras, extended to a new Heathrow station via Paddington.

From the airport, it would head back towards Marylebone then on to Birmingham and Scotland.

Travel time from Heathrow to Paris would be under two-and-a-half hours, reducing the need for a controversial third runway at the airport.

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