Hayes & Harlington  | |
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 Station entrance seen in May 2022 | |
  Hayes & Harlington Location of Hayes & Harlington in Greater London | |
| Location | Hayes |
| Local authority | London Borough of Hillingdon |
| Managed by | Elizabeth line[1] |
| Owner | |
| Station code | HAY |
| DfT category | D |
| Number of platforms | 5 |
| Accessible | Yes |
| Fare zone | 5 |
| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2020–21 |  1.355 million[2] |
| – interchange | 22,200[2] |
| 2021–22 |  3.169 million[2] |
| – interchange | 52,734[2] |
| 2022–23 | 5.446 million[2] |
| – interchange | 0.120 million[2] |
| 2023–24 | 7.765 million[2] |
| – interchange | 0.150 million[2] |
| 2024–25 | 8.450 million[2] |
| – interchange | 0.187 million[2] |
| Other information | |
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| Coordinates | 51°30′07″N0°25′12″W / 51.502°N 0.4201°W /51.502; -0.4201 |
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Hayes & Harlington is a railway station serving the west London districtsHayes andHarlington in theLondon Borough of Hillingdon. It is inLondon fare zone 5, 10 miles 71 chains (17.5 km; 10.89 mi) down the line fromLondon Paddington and is situated betweenSouthall andWest Drayton.
It has long operated as a minor stop on theGreat Western Main Line and is at the start of a spur toHeathrow Airport, to and from which passenger trains operate since the early 21st-century building of the spur which benefits from a flyover junction.
The station is managed by theElizabeth line, with most services also provided by the Elizabeth line, and late night services provided by theGreat Western Railway.
The station is on theIsambard Kingdom Brunel-designedGreat Western Main Line landscaped and laid fromLondon Paddington to major towns in central and west Berkshire, Bristol, South Wales and with later direct additions to Birmingham and Taunton. The line was opened piecemeal; its first guise terminated on 4 June 1838 at a temporaryMaidenhead station in Taplow to allow completion of the single-span brick high-levelsounding arch over theThames just west of that temporary halt. The station at Hayes opened in 1868[3] or 1864.[4]
From 1 March 1883, the station (then namedHayes) was served byDistrict Railway services running betweenMansion House andWindsor (central). The service was discontinued as uneconomic on 30 September 1885.[5][6]
The filmTrains at Hayes Station, showing trains passing through the station withstereophonic sound, was filmed from the roof of the defunctAeolianpianola factory just north of the station. The factory had been purchased by theGramophone Company when the pianola company had collapsed owing tofraud and technologicalobsolescence. The film is almost the first demonstration of stereophonic sound to accompany moving pictures, an invention ofAlan Blumlein.
The booking office was replaced in 1961 with a building to a modern design erected on a concrete raft over the line.[7]
The station has five platforms, four being through platforms and one being a terminus bay platform. Platforms 1 and 2 are only used during certain engineering works and during disruption on the relief lines; 3 and 4 are for services (which are stopping services) to and from London,Heathrow Airport,Reading andOxfordshire; platform 5 is a bay terminus platform, which was used for half-hourly shuttle services toPaddington. Platform 5 is capable of holding an eight-car train; platforms 2, 3 and 4 can hold nine-car trains and platform 1 can hold five-car trains. Platforms 3 and 4 have been extended as part of Crossrail improvement works. All platforms are connected with a footbridge to the new station building as part of the new Crossrail station improvements, which include step-free access to all platforms, step-free access to Station Road and Station Approach/High Point Village.[8] All lines at Hayes & Harlington are electrified.[9]
Airport junction adjoins the station the junction of the short Heathrow Airport branch. For this reason, the lines through the station are electrified with 25 kilovolt A.C.overhead power from London Paddington to the airport – the main line toReading has beenelectrified byc. early 2018 as part of a project to modernise the main line.
The junction itself, west of the station, consists of two high-speed turnouts from the main lines, the 'down' (away from London) line curving away to the left towards the Airport and the 'up' (towards London) line passing over a concrete flyover to clear (flyover) the up and down main lines. The construction permits London-bound electric trains to join the main line at the same time as westbound expresses serve the down main line.
As of the May 2023 timetable, the typical Monday to Friday off-peakElizabeth line service is:[10]
Late night services are operated by theGreat Western Railway, running westbound toReading andDidcot Parkway, and eastbound toPaddington.[11]
Oyster "pay as you go" as well as contactless can be used for journeys originating or ending at Hayes & Harlington.[12]
| Preceding station | Elizabeth line | Following station | ||
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| Heathrow Terminals 2 & 3 | Elizabeth line | Southall towardsAbbey Wood orShenfield | ||
| West Drayton towardsReading | Southall towardsAbbey Wood | |||
| Preceding station |  National Rail | Following station | ||
| West Drayton | Great Western Railway Late night services Great Western Main Line | Southall | ||
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| Preceding station |  London Underground | Following station | ||
| West Drayton towardsWindsor | District line | Southall towardsMansion House | ||
Various alterations were made byNetwork Rail to prepare the station for Elizabeth line services:[13]
Harlington is a green-bufferedenlarged village whose south is the Bath Road which has major hotels as part of a cluster of Heathrow Airport Hotels the settlement merges into Hayes in the north which has two retail/regular commercial centres, the closerHigh Street area immediately adjoins the station and continues due north, a similar further hub isthe Uxbridge Road found1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) further to the north.
London Buses routes90,140,195,278,350,E6,H98,SL9,U4 andU5, school routes696 and698, and night routeN140 serve the station.[14][15]
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