What are the best ways to get to Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton and Stansted
airports without a car?

Is there good transportation out to Luton airport between 11PM and 5AM?

"Kevin" wrote in message
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What are the best ways to get to Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton and Stansted
airports without a car?

Is there good transportation out to Luton airport between 11PM and 5AM?

Heathrow: District to Acton Town then Piccadilly
Gatwick: District to Victoria then Southern or Gatwick Express trains
Stansted: District to Victoria, Victoria to Tottenham Hale then Stansted
Express or if you have a lot of luggage then District to Monument, Circle to
Liverpool Street then Stansted Express
Luton: District to Hammersmith, Piccadilly to King's Cross then Thameslink

There is an all night Thameslink service from St Pancras to Luton although
the last tube from Stamford Brook will leave around midnight weekdays.

Peter Smyth

Kevin wrote:
What are the best ways to get to Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton and Stansted
airports without a car?

Is there good transportation out to Luton airport between 11PM and 5AM?

Thameslink run some services from St Pancras to Luton Airport Parkway
throughout the night. You can use the Tube to get to St Pancras until
just after midnight. During the night, you have several choices:
- 266 from Ravenscourt Park to Cricklewood, then the train
- 27 to Warren Street then N10 or 390 to St Pancras
- N9 to Trafalgar Square/Aldwych then N91 to St Pancras

There are a number of other bus combinations too to get to St Pancras.

I think coach services run from Victoria coach station all night too,
which you can reach using the N11.

www.journeyplanner.org should advise an appropriate route.

As for the other airports, they are all rail/coach-accessible during the
day, and at night you can reach Heathrow direct by N9; Gatwick by N11 to
Victoria then a night train or coach; Stansted by coach also from Victoria.

--
Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London

"Peter Smyth" wrote

There is an all night Thameslink service from St Pancras to Luton although
the last tube from Stamford Brook will leave around midnight weekdays.

Peter Smyth



It's worth noting that if you are travelling on or after May 16th that that
the Thameslink cross London link re-opens so trains will call at Kings Cross
Thameslink and not St Pancras.

In ,
informer typed:

"Peter Smyth" wrote

There is an all night Thameslink service from St Pancras to Luton
although the last tube from Stamford Brook will leave around
midnight weekdays.

It's worth noting that if you are travelling on or after May 16th
that that the Thameslink cross London link re-opens so trains will
call at Kings Cross Thameslink and not St Pancras.

I believe that the 'through the night' service to Luton Airport will
continue to leave from the St Pancras (Interim) station.

--
Bob

"Barry Salter" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 12:19:19 GMT, "Bob Wood"
wrote:

I believe that the 'through the night' service to Luton Airport will
continue to leave from the St Pancras (Interim) station.

The interim timetable covering the period from 16th May 'til 11th June
is now available for download from Thameslink's site and shows a sum
total of ZERO Thameslink services from St Pancras.

On weekdays, it shows the following "night" departures from Kings Cross
Thameslink calling at Luton Airport Parkway:

0002MX/0003MO
0038
0106MO/0108MX
0332
0418
0518
0552

On Saturdays, we have:

0002
0038
0108
0152
0332
0418
0518
0552

And on Sundays there's nothing between about 1am and 6am.

Travelling *from* Luton Airport Parkway there's the following:

Mondays to Fridays:

0006
0050


The trip will be during the last week of June. When will schedules become
available?

In message , at 12:19:19 on
Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Bob Wood remarked:
I believe that the 'through the night' service to Luton Airport will
continue to leave from the St Pancras (Interim) station.

Doesn't appear as such on NRE, eg:

Outward Journey: Tuesday 24 May 2005

KINGS CROSS THAMESLINK 03:32 Train THAMESLINK RAIL
LTD.
LUTON 04:20
--
Roland Perry

In message , at 14:48:26 on Sun, 17
Apr 2005, Kevin remarked:
The trip will be during the last week of June. When will schedules become
available?

Already the http://nrekb.nationalrail.co.uk/planmyjourney/
--
Roland Perry

"Dave Arquati" wrote in message
...
Kevin wrote:

Is there good transportation out to Luton airport between 11PM and 5AM?


Thameslink run some services from St Pancras to Luton Airport Parkway
throughout the night. You can use the Tube to get to St Pancras until just
after midnight. During the night, you have several choices:
- 266 from Ravenscourt Park to Cricklewood, then the train
- 27 to Warren Street then N10 or 390 to St Pancras
- N9 to Trafalgar Square/Aldwych then N91 to St Pancras

There are a number of other bus combinations too to get to St Pancras.

I think coach services run from Victoria coach station all night too,
which you can reach using the N11.

www.journeyplanner.org should advise an appropriate route.



I'm not seeing any public transportation that works to get to Luton in time
to catch a 6:25AM weekday flight (0430 check-in?) late June 2005.
Is there a private airport shuttle or coach service to Luton that is much
less expensive than a taxi?

In message , Kevin
writes

I'm not seeing any public transportation that works to get to Luton in time
to catch a 6:25AM weekday flight (0430 check-in?) late June 2005.
Is there a private airport shuttle or coach service to Luton that is much
less expensive than a taxi?

757 from Victoria (03:35) arrives Luton Airport at 04:39.

See http://www.london-luton.co.uk/ and follow the links (Getting To and
From the Airport)

--
Paul Terry