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A new simpler initial rail services plan, with the same number of trains as at present, means that there will be no need for an underpass at Datchet.  Future increases in rail utilisation could also be accomodated with improvements in signalling, meaning a maintenance or reduction in level crossing downtimes. National services using the line more heavily are a long way into the future.  However, the Windsor Link Railway remains open to supporting either an underpass or a bypass, depending on the wishes of residents.  [...]

Local transport plans of government insufficient ('defects... in the Secretary of State's thinking'). (WLR's view is that local transport needs to be improved irrespective of the third runway.)

A RAIL firm has announced radical plans to link High Wycombe to Heathrow Airport and restore the old line to Maidenhead. The £500m project, which Windsor Link Railway Company aims to begin by 2013, would be privately funded. The company proposes to build a new 'Wycombe Parkway' station in Loudwater, with more stops along the old line at Wycombe Marsh, Wooburn and Bourne End. It admits houses built on or near the old route will be “problematic” but it will also consider a route [...]

A copy of the Windsor press release for this project can be found here https://www.scribd.com/doc/23660676/New-Windsor-Railway-Link