[original thread at uk.railway]
[x-posted to uk.transport.london]

On 30 Jan, 20:32, John Chapman wrote:

Mizter T wrote:

On 30 Jan, 20:00, John Chapman wrote:

Next Wednesday morning my daughter is flying back to the UK to
attend a funeral.
Her flight from Thailand is due to land at Heathrow at 0600 hrs.
She needs to get to Cobham & Stoke D'abernon station as near to 0900 as
possible.
Cobham is served by trains from Waterloo.
I am searching for the fastest route at that time in the morning.
My experience suggests Heathrow Express to Paddington then tube to Waterloo
then train to Cobham.
She will be cutting it rather fine

Does anyone have please a better suggestion for that journey
*at that time of the morning ?

All suggestions gratefully received with thanks in advance.

That's a really round the houses route. I'd suggest cutting out
central London altogether, and I'd be tempted to just get a cab
straight there from Heathrow - it's a very direct route via the M25,
and she would hopefully avoid the worst of the traffic. A pre-booked
minicab would be cheapest.

I know that the M25 route is pretty fast to Cobham but at that time of day
is it not blocked with traffic ?


It is the busiest stretch I think, though the stretch between the M4
and M3 has been widened. Even if traffic was making slow progress I
still suspect this would be the quickest route- the M25 doesn't
actually get gridlocked per-se. The other possibility is some kind of
nifty route that cuts across the south western fringes of London, but
I don't think there is one really.

I've crossposted this to uk.transport.london in the hope it might get
some answers from some wise heads there.