On May 17, 11:15*pm, Theo Markettos theom
wrote:

Jarle H Knudsen wrote:

We plan to take the first tube from Walthamstow Central (0522) to Kings
Cross (0539) and then take either the 0602 or 0622 to Gatwick. I have never
been to that station complex. How much time should be allowed for changing
from the Victoria to FCC with potentionally very heavy luggage (depedning
on the amount of shopping carried out )?

The official interchange time is 15 minutes, I think, but I might allow a
little more especially if you don't know the place. *23 mins should be fine.
It helps if you can buy a ticket in advance (which you can do at any manned
National Rail station up to 12 weeks ahead, or book online and collect from
a machine) so you don't have to traipse over to the machines/ticket office
(and queue, though I don't imagine there's much queue at 0540).

(If you have an Anytime Return then you'll already have a valid ticket
assuming you return within a month, so this might not be a problem. *It only
applies if you're buying singles)

A rough guess at the walk, excluding lifts etc, would be at least 600m.

Aside to the regulars, if the OP has a 7 day travelcard, can he get a ticket
from Boundary Zone 6 to Gatwick, and by which route would this ticket be
valid?

Given that he's planning to to get a weekly *zone 1-3* Travelcard,
then getting an extension from Boundary Zone 6 isn't a wildly good
idea...

It would however be possible to get a *Boundary Zone 3* extension to
Gatwick. I assume that this would be valid on both Southern and FCC
but not GatEx. however given that rail ticketing to Gatwick is a bit,
er, 'special', I wouldn't want to say for certain.

(Of course any Boundary Zone shenanigans are dependent on the
aforementioned weekly Travelcard still being valid - Jarle's post
suggests that he's going to be here for longer than a week, if not his
associate as well.)

In all honesty I wouldn't bother - any saving of a Gatwick-London
single plus BZ3 to Gatwick extension over the straightforward return
fare is likely to be nominal at best I'd think, plus add in the hassle
factor of actually obtaining the BZ extension too (esp. as the return
trip is going to be early in the morning).