In message , at 06:01:57
on Thu, 3 Jul 2014, remarked:

Going via St Pancras is 2hrs 44mins.

Huh? Looking at Webtis, I get 2hrs 28mins at 11:52 from Ely, and that
includes the usual ludicrous connection allowance from the Cross to St
Pancras, in this case 42 minutes. You could do it in 23 and arrive over half
an hour earlier in under 2 hours at 13:48 via EMT. Off the 11:25 from Ely
you could get there at 13:21 if you can get to St Pancras in 10 minutes.

Hmm, Transport Direct is padding the change in London to an admittedly
ludicrous almost one hour. Plus there's 17 minutes from the station to
the airport (does your calculation include that?)
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Roland Perry

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at
06:01:57 on Thu, 3 Jul 2014, remarked:

Going via St Pancras is 2hrs 44mins.

Huh? Looking at Webtis, I get 2hrs 28mins at 11:52 from Ely, and that
includes the usual ludicrous connection allowance from the Cross to St
Pancras, in this case 42 minutes. You could do it in 23 and arrive over
half an hour earlier in under 2 hours at 13:48 via EMT. Off the 11:25
from Ely you could get there at 13:21 if you can get to St Pancras in 10
minutes.

Hmm, Transport Direct is padding the change in London to an
admittedly ludicrous almost one hour. Plus there's 17 minutes from
the station to the airport (does your calculation include that?)

No. I must admit I was looking at train times to Luton Airport Parkway
station only. The coach times are to the airport.

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Colin Rosenstiel

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 11:00:34 on Thu, 3 Jul
2014, tim..... remarked:
7 minutes is utterly ridiculous!

for granny with luggage (nor unreasonable at an airport station) it would
seem perfectly reasonable

Everyone keeps overlooking that the 7 minutes in question is from
*platform* to *platform*.

I only overlooked it because the information wasn't in the post that I
replied to.

Not from kerbside to platform.

How many grannies (with or without luggage) are *changing* trains at Luton
Airport Parkway?

How many anybodies are doing this?

tim

wrote in message
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In article , (John Levine)
wrote:

Several combination trips too. For example driving to Luton Parkway
then catching the train to Getwick, returning to the car park via
Luton Airport and the shuttle bus; and the opposite way round that
circle. It just depends on the airline schedules.

It's not very accessible by public transport from Cambridge (or Ely)
though, is it?

NatEx have coaches from Cambridge to Luton Airport every two hours
from 02:20 to 20:20. They take about 1:35. Seems reasonably
accessible to me.

If you can stand coaches. I'm not keen.

a coach back at 2pm beats sitting in the airport until first train (with
onward connection) at 6pm any day :-)

tim

In message , at 14:50:21 on Thu, 3 Jul
2014, tim..... remarked:
7 minutes is utterly ridiculous!

for granny with luggage (nor unreasonable at an airport station) it
would seem perfectly reasonable

Everyone keeps overlooking that the 7 minutes in question is from
*platform* to *platform*.

I only overlooked it because the information wasn't in the post that I
replied to.

One should really take the effort to read rather more of a thread before
replying.

Not from kerbside to platform.

How many grannies (with or without luggage) are *changing* trains at
Luton Airport Parkway?

How many anybodies are doing this?

Almost none. It would be for example the handful of people from outer
suburban stations who chose to change to an InterCity service (eg for
Leicester and beyond) there, rather than the more obvious Luton or
Bedford.
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Roland Perry

In message , at 15:25:16 on Thu, 3 Jul
2014, tim..... remarked:
NatEx have coaches from Cambridge to Luton Airport every two hours
from 02:20 to 20:20. They take about 1:35. Seems reasonably
accessible to me.

If you can stand coaches. I'm not keen.

a coach back at 2pm beats sitting in the airport until first train
(with onward connection) at 6pm any day :-)

Did you mean "am" [twice]?
--
Roland Perry

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 15:25:16 on Thu, 3 Jul
2014, tim..... remarked:
NatEx have coaches from Cambridge to Luton Airport every two hours
from 02:20 to 20:20. They take about 1:35. Seems reasonably
accessible to me.

If you can stand coaches. I'm not keen.

a coach back at 2pm beats sitting in the airport until first train (with
onward connection) at 6pm any day :-)

Did you mean "am" [twice]?

Oops

tim

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 14:50:21 on Thu, 3 Jul
2014, tim..... remarked:
7 minutes is utterly ridiculous!

for granny with luggage (nor unreasonable at an airport station) it
would seem perfectly reasonable

Everyone keeps overlooking that the 7 minutes in question is from
*platform* to *platform*.

I only overlooked it because the information wasn't in the post that I
replied to.

One should really take the effort to read rather more of a thread before
replying.

But even if I had done so, it was still someone's speculation that the
spokesman had used this "connections" time as the "walk from the TO"
time. He could have meant what he said (and it is co-incidence that the
numbers are the same)

Not from kerbside to platform.

How many grannies (with or without luggage) are *changing* trains at
Luton Airport Parkway?

How many anybodies are doing this?

Almost none. It would be for example the handful of people from outer
suburban stations who chose to change to an InterCity service (eg for
Leicester and beyond) there, rather than the more obvious Luton or
Bedford.

Precisely. So even more likely that he meant what he said

tim

On Thu, 3 Jul 2014 08:24:21 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:
And getting back to FCC, and patronising announcements, they now
play a
message about how to open the doors. Apparently you have to press
the
illuminated button, who'd a thunk-it?

The number of times I have seen people nearly miss their stop by not
doing so causes me to think otherwise. Particularly on Pacers where
they are not obviously located. And an airport train/station will
probably have a disproportionate number of first time passengers.

Neil

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On Thu, 3 Jul 2014 10:04:42 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:
The question of course is how many destinations does Luton offer
that
Stansted doesn't.

Don't know, but it does offer the option of easyJet rather than
Ryanair to many destinations.

Neil

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