"Brian Watson" wrote in message
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This Saturday morning I'm dropping a mate off after a trip to Bristol, and
he wants to get to Surbiton for another party (I know - "ligger!" We had
noticed).

Anyway, I'll be driving back up the M4 with a view to cutting off north at
some point as the rest of us are driving on to Cambridgeshire.

Rather than drive him all the way "dahn sarf", I thought I could drop him
at
Reading or Heathrow or similar and he could make his way on to Surbiton
from
there.

Anyone recommend a good dropping off point to transfer to either mainline
rail and/or tube, please?

Heathrow Express, whilst a good service, is *very* expensive (£ per mile,
the highest in the country), so I would avoid that. Likewise, the Piccadilly
line tube service from Heathrow is slow and would require a further change
to get to Waterloo, for Surbiton services.

Bear in mind that, this weekend, there are *NO* mainline services between
Reading and Paddington, due to engineering work at Slough. However, the
South West Trains service from Reading to Waterloo (change at Clapham
Junction for Surbiton services) is running.

The only thing that I would point out is that it is Reading Festival weekend
and the town centre may be very busy. Therefore you may find it easier to
leave the motorway at junction 10 and take the A329 into Wokingham and drop
him at Wokingham rail station, where the Waterloo service from Reading also
calls.

HTH