Four Berkshire MPs have called on the government to support a new rail link from Langley to Heathrow Airport.
The call, backed by 18 MPs and baroness Theresa May of Maidenhead, comes after the government said last month it would support a third runway at Heathrow.
In a letter, the group said: “We believe the business case for the western rail link to Heathrow is as strong as it was in 2019, especially given the recent developments regarding the proposed third runway at Heathrow Airport.”
Proposals for a rail link would involve building a tunnel east of Langley station, linking the Great Western mainline and Heathrow Airport.
Currently people travelling by rail to the airport from the west must take the train through Reading and Slough into London Paddington then change to go back out towards the airport.
The letter says: “This proposed link would eliminate the need to travel into London for more than 20% of the UK’s population, reducing their journey time by an average of 30 minutes.”
The letter was written on behalf of the all party parliamentary group on the western rail link to Heathrow, which is headed by Slough MP Tan Dhesi and baroness May, on Wednesday, February 26.
Other Berkshire MPs to sign the letter were Wokingham’s Clive Jones, Woodley and Earley’s Yuan Yang and Windsor’s Jack Rankin.
