On May 21, 2:19*pm, paul in HG wrote:
I need to travel from Southfields to Elstree daily for a few weeks.
The last time I did this journey, a few years ago, I used to take the
District Line to Blackfriars and change onto the Luton line. I know
Blackfriars tube is closed, and the journey planner tells me to go via
Kings Cross, but having heard bad stories of KC interchange isn't
changing at Blackfriars using Temple or Mansion House still the
easiest option? Any other suggestions?

Go to Wimbledon and take the direct Thameslink stopping train? Timing
wise might not be so great though (the train starts off going in the
'wrong direction' towards Streatham, and isn't particularly snappy).

Re the interchange at Kings Cross St Pancras - does partly depend
which way your coming at it from, i.e. from the sub-surface lines or
from the Piccadilly line. Whichever way you might do it, via KXSP,
Temple or Mansion House there'd still be a walk - possibly choose
which walk you prefer...

Alternatively - go to West Brompton and change onto the London
Overground to West Hampstead - from this Sunday's timetable change
there are lots more trains that run direct from the WLL onto the NLL
(half-hourly during the day but every 15 mins during the peaks). From
West Hampstead pick up the Thameslink to Elstree & Borehamwood.

The above route route also avoid zone 1, so is cheaper - you'd only
need a zones 2-6 Travelcard, or if using Oyster PAYG you'd only pay a
zones 2-6 fare so long as you touched on the pink Oyster route
validator when changing at West Brompton - see the TfL Single fare
finder and click on 'Alternate fares' for confirmation of this:
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/tickets/fa...inder/current/


(Note that at West Hampstead you'd need to touch-out at the London
Overground station before touching in again at the Thameslink station,
as this is an out-of-station interchange. Assuming 10 peak time
journeys in a week at £3.40 each, Oyster PAYG actually comes out 40
pence cheaper than a weekly z2-6 Travelcard at £34.40 - but of course
you get all the extra travel you want thrown in with a Travelcard, so
it'd just take making a single bus journey to tip the balance in its
favour.)