Dave Arquati wrote in message ...
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , Ian Jelf
writes

On Monday I have to travel by car to London along the M40 and then get
to get to Saint Paul's by 1000. (I normally use Chiltern trains or
drive down the M1 and park at Stanmore but this time logistics are
unfortunately dictating otherwise.)

When I previously used to do this I used to Park at Perivale and take
the Central Line. However, I've not done this for a long time and
recall someone here saying that Perivale's station car par is now full
very early.

Anyone have any other ideas about any West London Central Line stations
with reasonable parking?


Not the Central Line, but I always used to park at Ickenham, which is a
few minutes drive north of Hillingdon (whose carpark I found filled up
rather sooner).

... and is also slightly cheaper.

West Ruislip has 136 spaces.
I used to work at West Ruislip, and the car park was regularly full by
0800.
I suspect that the 136 spaces figure includes the staff parking
spaces, so in reality there are only about 115.
Other stations down the Central line have
many fewer spaces... Metropolitan line stations, however, tend to have
much larger car parks. Look at the bottom of
http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/congestion/car_parks.shtml for a list of
tube station car parks and their prices. (W Ruislip is not included...
that information was from the Chiltern Railways website at
http://www.chilternrailways.co.uk).

A final point - you will certainly find parking available at
Beaconsfield on Chiltern Railways since the car park was double-decked
last year. You could then catch a train to W Ruislip and change for the
Central Line (although it would be quicker to go all the way into
Marylebone and make your way from there).