Windsor plan backed
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BRITISH Rail is to back a park-and-ride scheme to stem the flow of tourist coaches into Windsor. The town, with three million visitors in 1977, had 17,000 coaches using its biggest coach park last year, compared with 12,730 two years earlier.
Now British Rail is hoping to launch a scheme whereby coaches will park at a site in Slough three miles away and passengers will make the journey into Windsor on a rail shuttle.
This plan could increase rail users on the single-track line between Slough and Windsor to more than 1000 passengers an hour compared with the morning and evening rush hours at present.
It has been estimated that 300 coaches a day enter the Royal borough and British Rail hope to attract enough operators to the new scheme to cut that number by one third.