| RailAir and GBR Posted by CyclingSid at 06:40, 22nd March 2026 |     |
Sorry if I have been asleep on the job.
What is happening to RailAir links in the great new Great British Railways wonderland. I don't know what the current contractual relationship between the ROC and the RailAir provider.
From a passenger point of view will things carry on seamlessly? (Innocent fool?).
| Re: RailAir and GBR Posted by Clan Line at 10:14, 22nd March 2026 | |
Back in the mid 80s I was weekending from Scotland to my then home in Hampshire. The Royal Navy provided transport to/from Edinburgh Airport, I received "mileage" for the flight to Heathrow and a rail warrant from Woking to Eastleigh.
The clever bit was the Rail-Air coach from Heathrow to Woking. BR would not accept a rail warrant, as it was a coach - the coach operator would not accept a coach warrant as the bus carried the BR Logo and therefore was a train !! In the end the Navy paid us mileage instead for that bit. I have often wondered if they ever resolved that bit of stupidity - perhaps GBR will.
| Re: RailAir and GBR Posted by Noggin at 15:38, 23rd March 2026 | |
Well of course the best way they could fix it would be some new track.
Heathrow Western and Southern Access should really be a prerequisite for a third further runway.
| Re: RailAir and GBR Posted by eightonedee at 22:35, 23rd March 2026 | |
What is happening to RailAir links in the great new Great British Railways wonderland. I don't know what the current contractual relationship between the ROCâ–¸ and the RailAir provider.
From a passenger point of view will things carry on seamlessly? (Innocent fool?).
From a passenger point of view will things carry on seamlessly? (Innocent fool?).
I am not sure what contractual relationship exists, but, if you are worried about the future of the service there's considerable comfort to be gained from the fact that (at Reading) this began quite a long time before privatisation of either rail or bus services, looking it up on Wikipedia, in 1967! (I have a vague memory of Thames Valley using Bedford coaches with the then-new Duple Viceroy bodies). So it has survived a lot of changes of operator in the intervening period. There's also the Rail Air lounge at Reading station which presumably is operated by the coach company under lease or licence from Network Rail.
