PASSENGER services from Heathrow Terminal 4 Tube station are due to resume at 5.45am on Sunday September 17 2006, allowing people to travel direct to and from Central London on the Piccadilly Line.

The Terminal 4 station has been closed for nearly 20 months for essential work as part of the project to extend the Piccadilly Line to Heathrow Terminal 5.

The extension, funded by Heathrow Airports Ltd, a subsidiary of BAA, is due for completion by March 2008.

The shuttle bus service which has been operating between Hatton Cross and Heathrow Terminal 4 will remain in place for a week after the station reopens to allow passengers to make the transition back to the Tube.

Piccadilly Line services will continue to run to Heathrow Terminals 1, 2 and 3 via Terminal 4 as they did before the station closed.

Extensive communications are planned to inform passengers of the service changes, including train and station announcements, Heathrow by Tube leaflets and 'Which station at Heathrow?'-posters at stations and on trains.

For further travel advice and journey planning call London Travel Information on 020 7222 1234, or visit TfL's Journey Planner at www.tfl.gov.uk/journeyplanner