On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 12:05:34 -0000, "tim....."
wrote:


"Recliner" wrote in message
...
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 05:46:50
on Sat, 16 Feb 2013, antoine remarked:
I think that it is non possible to estabilish before exactly
the time for the train; the airplane could be a little late, or the suit
case not soon in my hands,

Very wise.

or, or ,or. So the best thing to do is to buy a ticket for that day but
not for one particular time.

There is no discount for buying an "any train" ticket ahead of time.

My own choice (if leaving Gatwick after 9.30am) would be to get a One Day
Travelcard Off-Peak Southern-only £15.20, which will allow travel on any
direct train *except* Gatwick Express to Victoria, but *including* the
London Underground train to Chelsea, and any other bus/Underground for
the rest of the day.

Cheaper, but taking longer (change at Blackfriars) is a One Day
Travelcard Off-Peak FCC-Only £13.00, which is valid on all
bus/Underground as before, but only on FCC (First Capital Connect) trains
from Gatwick to London (via London Bridge).

If you want to be able to choose to travel on either Southern or FCC,
then the equivalent ticket to those mentioned above is £15.90, but it
still doesn't allow travel on Gatwick Express.

I think that's good advice. For the benefit of the OP, you can take a
single train from either Blackfriars or Victoria to Sloan Square in
Chelsea, which may be close to where you want to go, and you can also get
buses from there or Victoria to get you closer to your destination. There
is a useful web site, the TfL Journey Planner, to help you pick your
route:

http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/use...T2?language=en

Note that this is a multi-lingual site, so you might be able to use this
in
your native language if you prefer (just change the "en" at the end).

and just what do you change it to to get it to talk to you in squiggle
squiggle language

Well, you can always do it the boring way and just use the menu on the
page to choose between the 19 supported languages.