Heathrow Terminals 1,2,3 tube station
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| Heathrow Terminals 1,2,3 |
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| Location | |
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| Place | Heathrow Airport |
| Local authority | London Borough of Hillingdon |
| Operations | |
| Managed by | London Underground |
| Owned by | London Underground |
| Platforms in use | 4 |
| Transport for London | |
| Zone | 6 |
| Annual entry/exit | 8.837 million † |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 1977 |
| Transport for London List of London stations: Underground | National Rail |
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| † Data from Transport for London [1] | |
Heathrow Terminals 1,2,3 is a London Underground station at Heathrow Airport on the Heathrow branch of the Piccadilly Line. The station is situated in Travelcard Zone 6.
The station opened as Heathrow Central on 16 December 1977 as the final phase of the Piccadilly Line's extension from Hounslow West to the airport. The preceding station, Hatton Cross, had opened as the interim terminus in 1975. At its opening, the station served as the terminus of what became known as the Heathrow branch of the line — previously it had been the Hounslow branch. It was the first time that an airport had been directly served by an underground railway system.
With the development of the airport's new Terminal 4 underway for which a separate Underground station would be provided, the station was renamed Heathrow Central Terminals 1,2,3 on 3 September 1983. The station gained its present name on 12 April 1986, the same day that services began at Heathrow Terminal 4.
The Terminal 4 station is located on a unidirectional single track loop from Hatton Cross to Heathrow Terminals 1,2,3. On the opening of the Terminal 4 station direct services from Hatton Cross ceased, all Piccadilly Line trains going first to Terminal 4.
For the construction of the tunnel to the new Heathrow Terminal 5 station, the loop track and Terminal 4 station closed temporarily on 7 January 2005 and Heathrow Terminal 1, 2, 3 once again became the terminus of the line. This situation continued until 17 September 2006, when the Terminal 5 tunnel works were sufficiently complete for the loop tunnel and Terminal 4 station to reopen.
When the new Terminal 5 station opens (probably in March 2008), it is anticipated that the service pattern will be that every other train arriving at Hatton Cross will run via the Heathrow Terminal 4 loop, whilst the alternate trains will run direct to Heathrow Terminals 1,2,3 and then continue down the new branch to Heathrow Terminal 5.
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