New walkway opens at Heathrow Terminal 5 between the main, B and C terminals

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• Tony says:

  22 May22 May 10:14

  Can they also start calling it “train” again instead of that awfully stupid “transit”? I’d be chuffed.

• Varth Dader says:

  22 May22 May 14:04

  It’s not new. It’s always been there.

  • Rob says:

    22 May22 May 14:29

    Correct – it used to be the emergency route for when the trains broke down.

  • Lady London says:

    22 May22 May 22:37

    Yes and it’s a d*** long walk.

• Peter Phillips says:

  22 May22 May 18:00

  They could improve the transit capacity by stopping the “security checks” when a member of staff wanders aimlessly in and out of the carriages for two or three minutes, looking for goodness knows what. This is supposed to be on the sterile airside of the terminal. Can anybody explain why these checks are now necessary whereas when T5 opened they weren’t?

  • signol says:

    22 May22 May 19:32

    The same trains are used by arrival and departure pax, so an arriving passenger could hide aboard and remix with departing pax, and exit the secure area bypassing immigration and customs perhaps?

    • Mark says:

      22 May22 May 20:30

      Its more that you have to reclear security when connecting and it would be a way of bypassing that.

      There are checks on everyone boarding domestic flights to ensure that they haven’t transfered without clearing immigration and customs anyway.

  • Gaz says:

    23 May23 May 09:27

    Agreed – the staff performing the checks have a complete lack of urgency and tend to waddle at a snails pace. Admittedly probably quite a mundane job, but there’s definitely efficiencies to be had!

• Richard says:

  23 May23 May 11:42

  At FRA the train between terminals carries a mix of passengers (airside and landside) by keeping them in separate coaches. The doors open on different sides of the train depending on whether the coach is for landside or airside pax.
  At heathrow they could do the same. The train would then immediately turn around, stopping only long enough for people to get on/off. Frequency of the trains could easily be doubled or tripled and nobody would have to check the train with all the speed of a snail.

• tim says:

  23 May23 May 22:30

  I was looking forward to trying out the new tunnrl when I arrived in t5b from Sao paulo this morning. The passenger signs were there but the steps down were taped off!

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