When Gatwick Airport first opened back in the 1930s it was probably the first airport in the world to be properly integrated into the national rail network (or Southern Railways if you prefer) with a covered walkway to another first, the circular terminal building (now the headquarters of GB Airways) affectionately christened ”The Beehive” by some RAF wag. 

The effort by the various trade bodies and the airline community based at Gatwick to save the express rail service to Victoria is to be applauded.  Why is it in this country that we try to destroy something that is successful?  The endeavour however misses the point.  What is also needed is an better Gatwick Express and not a South London version of the ”Stansted Slow”.