On 18 Mar, 09:34, Roland Perry wrote:
In message
, at
01:25:05 on Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Ganesh Sittampalam
remarked:

Seriously though Paddington
is a dreadful interchange unless you are very lucky with a H&C train and
the platform allocation for the FGW train. *The nightmare that is
Paddington station - stairs, overbridges, ramps etc and then queuing for
another ticket and then waiting for a train and then slogging to the
platform - is not worth contemplating. It's bad enough unencumbered but
with luggage there is no way I would use it to get to Heathrow.

Do you think Paddington is worse than other rail-tube interchange
points? It feels about the same to me as the ones I've used, and as
far
as the H&C line goes substantially better than most.

Paddington, and especially the H&C line, is virtually impossible if you
have luggage. There are substantial stairs both up and down to
negotiate. Some other stations are nearly as bad - Victoria for example.

But by making other choices you can devise virtually step-free routes by
avoiding these points-of-failure.

Fair enough. Even with luggage I've never bothered to try to find step-
free
routes though no doubt at some point in my life I will start to care
about
such issues.

Ganesh