Richard J. wrote:

Dr Ivan D. Reid wrote:

I have to travel to Croydon next week. tfl's Journey Planner's
best suggestion has me bussing to Uxbridge, Tube to Hillingdon, then
some mysterious express bus to Victoria, thence rail to East
Croydon.
A bit over two hours.

Poking around various maps I wondered about Piccadilly from Ux to
Earl's Court, District to Wimbledon, and Tram to Croydon. No idea
yet how long that would take.

Anyone (Paul?) have a better idea?


The mysterious express bus from Hillingdon: if it says "OT", it's the
Oxford Tube (Stagecoach); if it says "X90" it's the Oxford Buses
service, now called Oxford Espress (sic). Between the two of them, it's
quite a frequent service, but you've got a longish walk from Victoria
Coach Station to the railway station.

I'm not sure it's actually possible to buy tickets on either of those
coaches between Hillingdon and London. Mind you, I've never tried.

--
Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London

Hi,

Dave Arquati wrote:

The mysterious express bus from Hillingdon: if it says "OT", it's the
Oxford Tube (Stagecoach); if it says "X90" it's the Oxford Buses
service, now called Oxford Espress (sic). Between the two of them, it's
quite a frequent service, but you've got a longish walk from Victoria
Coach Station to the railway station.

I'm not sure it's actually possible to buy tickets on either of those
coaches between Hillingdon and London. Mind you, I've never tried.

Both sell tickets between Hillingdon and London (I believe they get
subsidised to do so), and both will drop you off outside the main
Victoria rail station before continuing to the coach station.

Luke

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2. Picc to South Ken, District to Vic, Train to East Croydon

Baron's Court or Hammersmith are FAR easier interchanges than South
Ken.
But you get far more trains
ie circle line

HTH Phil

I wouldn't call the addition of the Circle line many trains at all.
;-) Certainly not the sort of number that would warrant changing
levels rather than walking across the platform.

You also get the addition of the Wimbledon trains as well. There are 25.5tph
at South Ken and only 12tph at Barons Court.

Peter Smyth

Or expressed otherwise, a wait of between 0 and 5 minutes at Baron's
Court (average 2m30) vs one of between 0 and 2m21 (average 1m10) at
South Ken. So you on average gain 1m20 by waiting til South Ken, minus
the time for changing levels. It's probably not worth it.

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 21:46:35 +0100, Annabel Smyth
wrote in :
Dr Ivan D. Reid wrote to uk.transport.london on Fri, 27 Aug 2004:

I have to travel to Croydon next week. tfl's Journey Planner's
best suggestion has me bussing to Uxbridge, Tube to Hillingdon, then
some mysterious express bus to Victoria, thence rail to East Croydon.
A bit over two hours.

Poking around various maps I wondered about Piccadilly from Ux to
Earl's Court, District to Wimbledon, and Tram to Croydon. No idea yet how
long that would take.

Anyone (Paul?) have a better idea?

Tube to Victoria, then train?

As it happened, LBC 1152AM and the TfL site alerted me to Jubilee
line problems at Westminster, and a one-under at Victoria closing that
station. No Farringdon or Victoria trains, then. So I tried the above.

Walked out my door at straight-up 12, got a Travelcard at the Post
Office and was on a 222 bus in the High Street by 12:11. To cut a long
story short, I was at Lunar Ho at 14:35. Coming back was exactly 2 hrs
to Uxb, but I wasted 5 minutes and maybe a connection by taking the
wrong entry at Victoria due to unfamiliarity. A bit of Tesco and a U5
and I was home again 2:35 from starting.

I got the visa, BTW.

--
Ivan Reid, Electronic & Computer Engineering, ___ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Room 40-1-B12, CERN
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 23:06:07 GMT, Richard J. wrote:

The mysterious express bus from Hillingdon: if it says "OT", it's the
Oxford Tube (Stagecoach); if it says "X90" it's the Oxford Buses
service, now called Oxford Espress (sic). Between the two of them, it's
quite a frequent service, but you've got a longish walk from Victoria
Coach Station to the railway station.


the Oxford Tube stops at Vickyu Rail/Tube, not the coach station


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