On Jul 12, 10:37*pm, "
wrote:

On Jul 8, 3:34*pm, Mizter T wrote:

On Jul 8, 7:33*pm, "
wrote:
Is the transfer at Earls Court easy with either a lift or escalator? I
could catch the train from Wimbledon there too.

If you're changing from Heathrow on the Piccadilly line to the
District line, the easiest places to do that at are Barons Court or
Hammersmith - received wisdom has it that Barons Court is the
preferred choice, and I'd go along with that as the station is rather
less busy than Hammersmith, plus it's quite an interesting place too
(could perhaps be described as 'quaint', though we don't really go in
for descriptors like that over here!).

The reason the interchanges at these two stations are so easy is that
it's cross-platform - i.e. the Picc and District going in the same
direction use alternate sides of the same island platform.

At Earl's Court there are lifts to interchange between the Piccadilly
and District lines, but if interchanging from District to District in
the same direction it's cross-platform.

Note that if you are planning on an extended round-the-houses route to
get from Heathrow to Upminster then you might hit problems if you're
using Oyster PAYG - the system is designed on the premise of A-to-B
journeys, and if journeys exceed a certain time-limit then things go
awry (note that the time limits are generous and fine for normal
journeys, so there's no need to hurry - but it's no good for standing
at the end of platforms watching the world go by!).

I'm actually looking for the quickest route from lhr to upminster
using the 2.40 1 to 6 fare

If you're going for the Heathrow to Upminster option, then the
quickest way of doing that (excluding the expensive Heathrow Express)
would be Piccadilly line to either Hammersmith or Barons Court, then a
cross platform interchange with the District line to Upminster.
(Barons Court is the preferable place to change though.) That would
currently cost GBP2.40 - that's the off-peak zones 1-6 Tube fare that
you mention.

Whilst it would be possible, and wouldn't cost any extra, for you to
get off the District line at Tower Hill, walk round the corner to
Fenchurch Street and get on a slightly faster c2c suburban train to
Upminster, you'd then *have* to get off and go and touch-out (by
exiting the automatic gates) at Upminster - if you didn't do this then
your Oyster card would get charged GBP7 (for an 'unresolved journey),
plus you'd also need to go and buy your ticket from Upminster to
Tilbury anyway - whilst this would be possible, it wouldn't be any
quicker, as you'd then have to wait at Upminster for half an hour for
the next c2c train. (The half-hourly c2c trains run from Fenchurch
Street via Upminster to Tilbury Town, ultimately ending up at Southend
Central.)

If time really was of the essence, then one would get off the District
line at Tower Hill, go to Fenchurch Street and buy a Fenchurch Street
to Tilbury Town single for GBP6.20. As we've discussed, the Upminster
to Tilbury Town single costs GBP3.00.

To compress my advice into a single long-winded sentence - go from
Heathrow to Barons Court on the Piccadilly line, change for the
District line to Upminster, exit through the automatic gates (ensuring
that you touch-out properly with your Oyster card to end your Oyster
Pay-as-you-go journey), go to the adjacent ticket office (or ticket
machine) and buy your single from Upminster to Tilbury Town, re-enter
through the gates with the paper ticket you've just bought, get on the
c2c train to Tilbury Town, get off and enjoy your cruise, and maybe
come back here and post a link to the photos of polar bears (or
whatever) you took on your jaunt!