On Jan 30, 8:23 pm, Mark Morton wrote:
...with my elderly mother who is afraid of being under ground on the
Underground, and who can't walk far.

Is the easiest option just the 205 bus to Mile End, then round the
corner to the 323 bus to Canning Town?

Seems like a decent enough option. You could continue on the 205 to
Bow Church DLR station, but I wouldn't - it'd involve having to change
at Poplar from one platform to another (as at that point you're
effectively changing direction from westbound to eastbound), and
whilst the DLR is fully accessible and there are lifts and everything,
I don't think it's really worth the hassle. Nothing else immediately
springs to mind.


With my railhead on, I was going to do HS1 from St Pancras to Stratford,
but I believe there's quite a bit of walking at both Stratford stations
and platform 11 (where the buses to StfInt go from) at Stratford
Regional has no step-free access. Is that correct?

Correct, no step-free access - see the note at the top of this NR
webpage:
http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/sfa/details.html


One other question: the discounted travelcards for people with National
Rail railcards [1]: are they available from TFL ticket machines, or only
at the windows?
[1] http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/faresa...ets/11696.aspx

I presume you're thinking about what can be purchased at Canning Town
(which is an LU station). In which case, Railcard-discounted
Travelcards are only available from the ticket windows at LU stations,
and not from the ticket machines - however I'm pretty sure they can be
bought in advance, at least for the next day. You could also buy one
or more in advance at King's Cross from one of the NR ticket offices.
One other suggestion is to buy it/them in advance online from one of
the booking sites, then collect it from a TOD enabled NR ticket
machine (such as those at KX), or else have it/them posted to you/her
if they were ordered far enough in advance.