Trains to Hayes & Harlington - Station Details and further Information on Hayes & Harlington Train Services
Hayes and Harlington train station is a train station in Hayes and Harlington in the London Borough of Hillingdon. Hayes is the location of the junction for the recently completed Heathrow Airport branch. For this reason, the lines through the station are electrified with 25kV a.c. overhead power, although they only continue along the Airport branch - the main line to Reading is not yet electrified.
The junction itself consists of two ground level high-speed turnouts from the main lines, the 'down' (away from London) line curving away to the left towards the Airport and the 'up' (towards London) line passing over a major concrete flyover construction to clear the up and down main lines before joining the up main line on the flat. This arrangement permits a London-bound electric train to join the main line from Heathrow at the same time as a Reading-bound train passes along the down main line – if there were simply a flat junction one of the trains would have had to be held to allow the other to pass.
Services at Hayes and Harlington are provided by FirstGroup plc. First Great Western run stopping services and fast services in both directions between London Paddington and Reading train station. Heathrow Connect services are jointly run with BAA plc ( who built the tunnel and airport junction to the airport) and FirstGroup (providing a fast electric main line alternative to the Piccadilly Line for passengers travelling to Heathrow Airport). Heathrow Connect replaced the stopping services under First Great Western Link between Hayes & Harlington and London Paddington. This has allowed for speedy journey times in the Greater London Area.
The station is served by local services operated by First Great Western from London Paddington to Reading and Heathrow Connect services from Paddington to Heathrow Airport.
As of October 2008, Oyster "pay as you go" can be used for journeys originating or ending at Hayes & Harlington. Starting from Ealing Broadway on the Central Line, then changing to First Great Western trains leading to Hayes. |