Originally Posted by
kcockayne
I was at LATCC, West Drayton from 1971 to ‘73 & can remember only one day when 05L was in use for landing traffic. I well remember seeing a KLM DC8-63 (or was it a 61 ?) running downwind LH for 05L - presumably on a visual. I reckon this was in ‘72, but it could have been ‘73.
I don't think you mean 05L - that closed in the early 1960s, along with its reciprocal, at which point 05R/23L became simply the aforementioned 05/23.
I'm too young(!) to remember any runways other than Nos 1, 2 and 5.