The Daily Telegraph has featured the Windsor Link.
Under Mr Grayling, the DfT invited engineers to submit privately funded solutions to upgrade the railways in 2018. The so-called “market-led proposals” encouraged many in the City, with infrastructure investors eager to put millions of pounds to work. However, the programme was quietly mothballed as ministers grappled with a string of problems on the railways. The Windsor Link project would connect Eton and Windsor Central railway station, on the Great Western network, with Eton and Windsor Riverside, on the South Western.
Joining the two networks would open up south-west England and provide better services into Heathrow Airport, it is hoped. The project is part-funded by Meridiam, a French engineering company that recently spearheaded a dramatic reduction of journey times on France’s TGV high-speed rail services
They also quote local naysayer Roger Cullingham from Thamesweb as saying the project provides ‘zero benefits to residents’, which of course isn’t true. The scheme provides a doubling of frequency of trains to London Paddington and 10-20 minutes saving off average train times, expanding riverside gardens, providing hundreds of new parking spaces for shoppers under Alexandra Gardens and at a park-n-ride by the M4 as well as helping our environment for future generations by helping more people across the south-east to use the train instead of the car. More here.
You can also see what local people really think here. Click on the pie chart. 
