"Stephen Farrow" wrote in message
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Russ wrote:
If you were going from Leeds to London to Gatwick Airport via GNER,
Tubes, and Gatwick Express or Connect, and your international flight
out was at 12 noon, what time would a person need to depart Leeds?


To be safe, and given check-in times, probably the night before.

Seriously.

If that's not possible, there's a 5.05am train from Leeds to London, which
will enable you to get the 8.15am Gatwick Express from Victoria to
Gatwick, getting you to Gatwick for 8.45am. I wouldn't *plan* to travel
any later than that - that way, you've a little bit of cushion time if you
encounter any kind of delay during the journey.

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Stephen

A doodle. I do doodle. You too -- you do doodle, too.

I have a 1300 flight from LHR picked from 4 departures through the day so I
can get from home on the same day. I'm catching the 0736 from Castle Cary
to Reading and then the rail air bus to Heathrow and HEX to T4. My guess
is that I'll get to T4 about 1015. I could have caught the train an hour
earlier but I have the advantage over the OP that I can get a train on from
Reading to somewhere like Slough and pick up a taxi or even taxi fom Reading
or Newbury if things go a bit pear shaped or the M4 is reported bad. You
have to have some faith in the system working!

That said, I reckon the 0640 is far too tight. I'd go for an earlier train
and I would seriously consider spending the night at Gatwick. The distance
is longer and the ability to improvise if things do go wrong is less.