Demolished mansion house’s cellars in Cranford Park to open to the public
A series of huge vaulted cellars under a demolished mansion house just to the north of Heathrow Airport are to be opened up to the public as part of plans to improve the parklands around them.
Heathrow’s Victorian era prison cell
Long before Heathrow was runways and hotels, it offered accommodation of a very different sort - an overnight prison cell right in the centre of the village.
Huge underground space to be dug under West London farmland
A large plot of farmland near Heathrow Airport is to be turned into a vast subterranean city, with a public park on the top.
Unused station platforms could be opened for Heathrow rail link
Two unused platforms at an underground station could come into use, if a proposed new rail link to Heathrow Airport is approved.
This Saturday — test Heathrow Airport’s new Terminal Building
As the new Terminal 2 prepares to open later this year, they have been carrying out tests with members of the general public pretending to be a passenger.
Vintage Tube Train Trip Along the Piccadilly Line
The Transport Museum is running another of their occasional vintage tube train trips next month, and managed to secure access down to Heathrow Airport again.
A trip in Heathrow’s driverless transit system
A purpose-built private "railway" carrying passengers from the Business car park direct to the Terminal Building, and rather than a conventional multi-carriage train, give each user/family their own private carriage.
A380 starts regular flights to Heathrow
Reading in The Times today that the Airbus A380 is going to make its first commercial flight in and out of Heathrow on the afternoon of March 18th. Will I run over with my camera? You bet ya! Now, do…
London Eye – Traffic Lights
Got back from lunch and noticed from the living room window that the London Eye is is randomly lighting up the passenger pods. As planes fly almost in a direct line over the London Eye when coming in to land…
A morning at Heathrow Terminal 5
I spent the morning pretending to be a passenger at Heathrow’s Terminal 5 so that they can test their services with “live people”. Today was apparently their first big test, with some 2,000 members of the public turning up to…