Transport
Colnbrook was in earlier times on the main road to Windsor by way of Slough, and had been a convenient halting-place for travellers before the introduction of railways. Colnbrook has a railway line running into West Drayton, formerly carrying passenger traffic,then for carrying goods for the Heathrow Airport extension Terminal 5, now completed. This railway line formerly continued to Staines-upon-Thames and there are plans to re-use the southern part of it for the Heathrow Airtrack rail link from Staines to Heathrow Airport.
See Colnbrook railway station for the former rail connection that closed in 1965 as part of the Beeching Axe.
Local bus services are operated by London United and First Berkshire & The Thames Valley.
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