tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post1110037144593567659..comments2024-03-26T13:27:26.499+00:00Comments on Zelo Street: London’s Secret AirportTim Fentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726447899972084146noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-80168747616261563682012-09-03T16:51:59.254+01:002012-09-03T16:51:59.254+01:00Mentioning Oxfordshire and Berkshire was a bit of ...Mentioning Oxfordshire and Berkshire was a bit of a giveaway. Reading used to be 22 mins from Padd in the early days of IC125 and with a stop there (opening up a shedload of connections to the rest of the country) you could get to close to Newbury in about 35 mins with electric traction.<br /><br />Buckinghamshire would hack off too many well off Tory voters + reusing an old airbase site would be easier to push the process through. Bad news if you live in Newbury though.Tim Fentonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00726447899972084146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-49588259879593438562012-09-03T16:33:12.241+01:002012-09-03T16:33:12.241+01:00It's odd that the IoS piece mentioned Oxfordsh...It's odd that the IoS piece mentioned Oxfordshire and Berkshire and not Buckinghamshire, which is at least flat in the northern bit (which is why Cublington was picked by Roskill in the first place - the obvious site is and always has been north west of London on the flat land around Aylesbury).<br /><br />Berkshire's too built up, really. Oxfordshire's too far out of London for the 30 minute rule unless we're talking full on HS rail (Reading-London is about 25 minutes by HST on top quality alignment, so it would need to be >125mph to get much further out in the half hour).Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02938347648935528029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-23800085939070330072012-09-03T11:52:35.307+01:002012-09-03T11:52:35.307+01:00Or, more likely, somewhere in Buckinghamshire, whe...Or, more likely, somewhere in Buckinghamshire, where they wanted to build a huge airport in the early 1970s until key Tories invented the Thames Estuary schemes to kill it?<br /><br />http://www.harrowell.org.uk/blog/2009/01/27/the-latent-content-of-this-airport-however/Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17153530634675543954noreply@blogger.com