On Mar 15, 3:54*pm, joelpk wrote:
Thanks to all

Will the cellphones work in the underground stations and on the tube?

Not on the London Underground/ Tube i.e. the Piccadilly Line, no -
unless mobile coverage has been installed recently at the Heathrow
tube stations which I'm not aware of. (Note that a good stretch of the
Piccadilly line into central London is above ground - specifically
from Hounslow West to Barons Court - so you'd be able to get mobile
coverage there.)

Mobile phone coverage is however available throughout the Heathrow
Express/ Heathrow Connect stations and tunnels - i.e. the route of the
'free transfer train' between the terminals. (Do note that this is
only free to use between the various Heathrow terminals!)

"Mizter T" wrote in message
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On Mar 15, 3:54 pm, joelpk wrote:
Thanks to all

Will the cellphones work in the underground stations and on the tube?

Not on the London Underground/ Tube i.e. the Piccadilly Line, no -
unless mobile coverage has been installed recently at the Heathrow
tube stations which I'm not aware of. (Note that a good stretch of the
Piccadilly line into central London is above ground - specifically
from Hounslow West to Barons Court - so you'd be able to get mobile
coverage there.)

Mobile phone coverage is however available throughout the Heathrow
Express/ Heathrow Connect stations and tunnels - i.e. the route of the
'free transfer train' between the terminals. (Do note that this is
only free to use between the various Heathrow terminals!)

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Hmmm.... I can understand that the lack of signal could be seen as a
problem. However, you (joelpk) sound sufficiently experienced to remember
when we didn't have cell phones and managed surprisingly well. If you both
find somewhere to stop/sit as soon as you exit customs and immigration my
best estimate is that by the time the T4 person has found the train, bought
a ticket (to Russell Sq) and travelled to T123 the T3 person will have
walked from T3 to the underground, bought a ticket (to Russell Sq) and got
down onto the platform. Yes, it is further from T3 to the underground than
from T4 to it's platform but there's the extra travel time from T4 to T123.
In the end the total time isn't that different. In any case, if the
agreement is that the person from T4 will get out at T123 then if the time
isn't identical they can hang around on the platform for a few minutes.

In message
, at
09:13:03 on Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Mizter T remarked:
Will the cellphones work in the underground stations and on the tube?

Not on the London Underground/ Tube i.e. the Piccadilly Line, no

Another good reason to take the bus between terminals.
--
Roland Perry

In message , at 17:36:24 on
Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Graham Harrison
remarked:
If you both find somewhere to stop/sit as soon as you exit customs and
immigration my best estimate is that by the time the T4 person has
found the train, bought a ticket (to Russell Sq) and travelled to T123
the T3 person will have walked from T3 to the underground, bought a
ticket (to Russell Sq) and got down onto the platform. Yes, it is
further from T3 to the underground than from T4 to it's platform but
there's the extra travel time from T4 to T123. In the end the total
time isn't that different. In any case, if the agreement is that the
person from T4 will get out at T123 then if the time isn't identical
they can hang around on the platform for a few minutes.

But they are arriving an hour apart.

So one of them will need to kill time at their terminal, before catching
the train. They should "synchronise watches" by phone when above ground
at their separate terminals, then arrange to meet on the T123 platform
about ten minutes later.
--
Roland Perry

Roland Perry wrote on 16 March 2010 07:17:10 ...
In message , at 17:36:24 on
Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Graham Harrison
remarked:
If you both find somewhere to stop/sit as soon as you exit customs and
immigration my best estimate is that by the time the T4 person has
found the train, bought a ticket (to Russell Sq) and travelled to T123
the T3 person will have walked from T3 to the underground, bought a
ticket (to Russell Sq) and got down onto the platform. Yes, it is
further from T3 to the underground than from T4 to it's platform but
there's the extra travel time from T4 to T123. In the end the total
time isn't that different. In any case, if the agreement is that the
person from T4 will get out at T123 then if the time isn't identical
they can hang around on the platform for a few minutes.

But they are arriving an hour apart.

No, that's just what the airline timetables say. In practice the
arrival times of long-haul flights are heavily influenced by
high-altitude winds, so it's impossible in advance to say which flight
will arrive first.

So one of them will need to kill time at their terminal, before catching
the train. They should "synchronise watches" by phone when above ground
at their separate terminals, then arrange to meet on the T123 platform
about ten minutes later.

You can't time it that accurately as the T4 trains run only every 10
minutes.

It might be easier to meet up near Russell Square station. There's a Pret à
Manger almost opposite the station, or alternatively Carluccio's at the
front of the Brunswick Centre a few yards along the road.
--
Richard J.
(to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address)

On Mar 16, 7:09*am, Roland Perry wrote:

In message
, at
09:13:03 on Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Mizter T remarked:

Will the cellphones work in the underground stations and on the tube?

Not on the London Underground/ Tube *i.e. the Piccadilly Line, no

Another good reason to take the bus between terminals.

As I said earlier, I believe there's comprehensive mobile phone
coverage in the Heathrow Express/ Connect stations and tunnels.

In message
, at
04:51:33 on Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Mizter T remarked:
Another good reason to take the bus between terminals.

As I said earlier, I believe there's comprehensive mobile phone
coverage in the Heathrow Express/ Connect stations and tunnels.

I was also trying to solve the issue of long walks with luggage to the
train stations.
--
Roland Perry

Roland Perry wrote i

on Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Neil Williams
remarked:
But you can't easily do T3-T4 on the Piccadilly. And T3 is a long
way
from the station... almost impossibly so for someone with mobility
problems. The only answer that will work is to take a bus from
T3-T4
[route 555, every 19 minutes, free]

Every *19* minutes? Which muppet thought that up?

I don't know, but it's what the LHR official website says.

Then it's wrong, the 555 is every 30 minutes

It's not a TfL route but still see

http://www.londonbusroutes.net/details.htm

The website may not have been updated since the 557 was truncated.

--
Mike D

"Mizter T" wrote in message
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On Mar 15, 3:54 pm, joelpk wrote:
Thanks to all

Will the cellphones work in the underground stations and on the tube?

Not on the London Underground/ Tube i.e. the Piccadilly Line, no -
unless mobile coverage has been installed recently at the Heathrow
tube stations which I'm not aware of. (Note that a good stretch of the
Piccadilly line into central London is above ground - specifically
from Hounslow West to Barons Court - so you'd be able to get mobile
coverage there.)

When T5 first opened and there was a lot of changing of the allocation of
flights terminals, posters appeared on the Piccadilly Line trains mentioning
that the train would be above ground, and with mobile coverage, for around
23 minutes on its way to Heathrow. This was for the benefit of anybody who
needed to phone their airline to check which terminal they needed.

Mobile phone coverage is however available throughout the Heathrow
Express/ Heathrow Connect stations and tunnels - i.e. the route of the
'free transfer train' between the terminals. (Do note that this is
only free to use between the various Heathrow terminals!)

....and for the original poster, arriving at terminal 4, Heathrow Connect is
the one you want.

Martin