I have to do this trip on Thursday morning after 9am.

I think Central line to Holborn, then Piccadilly out to Heathrow looks
quickest and easiest.

Is that the best route, d'you think?

--
Brian
"Fight like the Devil, die like a gentleman."

"Brian Watson" wrote in news:50cd01F1fjn7pU1
@mid.individual.net:

I have to do this trip on Thursday morning after 9am.

I think Central line to Holborn, then Piccadilly out to Heathrow looks
quickest and easiest.

Is that the best route, d'you think?




Yes, definitely. You may get there marginally (and only marginally) quicker
if you go to Paddington (Circle/H&C) and then the Heathrow Express, and for
some flights from Heathrow you can check your baggage in at Paddington and
get your boarding card there already, which may be less hassle than the
bedlam that airports have become as of late what with all the paranoia
about liquids and one item of luggage only (the queues to check in are
doubled in time, as people in front of you can't follow simple instructions
and insist on more than one bag, or try and pack liquids into their luggage
while checking their bags in).

However, it'll cost ya. And I'm not sure you'd save more than 20 minutes or
so, when you take into account the extra kerfuffle.

On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 14:04:44 -0000, "Brian Watson"
wrote:

I have to do this trip on Thursday morning after 9am.

I think Central line to Holborn, then Piccadilly out to Heathrow looks
quickest and easiest.

Is that the best route, d'you think?

Are you going to be carrying luggage? Holborn's not my favourite
interchange, and if I had a lot of luggage, I'd be tempted to take the
easier (though slower) route of Circle line round to Monument, then
District to Barons Court and then Piccadilly to Heathrow.

"James Farrar" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 14:04:44 -0000, "Brian Watson"
wrote:

I have to do this trip on Thursday morning after 9am.

I think Central line to Holborn, then Piccadilly out to Heathrow looks
quickest and easiest.

Is that the best route, d'you think?

Are you going to be carrying luggage?

One HUGE backpack.

:-)

--
Brian

"Tristán White" wrote in message
09.145...
"Brian Watson" wrote in news:50cd01F1fjn7pU1
@mid.individual.net:

I have to do this trip on Thursday morning after 9am.

I think Central line to Holborn, then Piccadilly out to Heathrow looks
quickest and easiest.

Is that the best route, d'you think?




Yes, definitely. You may get there marginally (and only marginally)
quicker
if you go to Paddington (Circle/H&C) and then the Heathrow Express, and
for
some flights from Heathrow you can check your baggage in at Paddington and
get your boarding card there already, which may be less hassle than the
bedlam that airports have become as of late what with all the paranoia
about liquids and one item of luggage only (the queues to check in are
doubled in time, as people in front of you can't follow simple
instructions
and insist on more than one bag, or try and pack liquids into their
luggage
while checking their bags in).

However, it'll cost ya. And I'm not sure you'd save more than 20 minutes
or
so, when you take into account the extra kerfuffle.

Thanks. I'm planning to check in online the previous evening, then I only
have to check in my backpack.

--
Brian

On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, Tristán White wrote:

"Brian Watson" wrote in news:50cd01F1fjn7pU1
@mid.individual.net:

I have to do this trip on Thursday morning after 9am.

Our survey (of the TfL Journey Planner) says: Circle/H&C to Paddington,
then Heathrow Express to Heathrow, taking 40-odd minutes. If you ask for a
no-NR route, you get the Central/Picc route via Holborn, which is
predicted to take 70 minutes.

I think Central line to Holborn, then Piccadilly out to Heathrow looks
quickest and easiest.

Yes, definitely. You may get there marginally (and only marginally) quicker
if you go to Paddington (Circle/H&C) and then the Heathrow Express,

How about Central to Ealing Broadway, then Heathrow Connect to the
airport? JP puts that at 60-65 min. Slower than the HX, not significantly
faster than the tube, but it works with travelcards and it avoids a change
at Holborn - you have to go over a bridge at Ealing, i think, but it'll be
easier than finding your way through a maze of twisty little interchange
passages, all alike, and should be less busy. I'm not sure what the
frequency of the HC is, though - that 60-65 min might be based on an
optimistic assumption about making a connection.

tom

--
Formal logical proofs, and therefore programs - formal logical proofs
that particular computations are possible, expressed in a formal system
called a programming language - are utterly meaningless. To write a
computer program you have to come to terms with this, to accept that
whatever you might want the program to mean, the machine will blindly
follow its meaningless rules and come to some meaningless conclusion. --
Dehnadi and Bornat

On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 17:08:04 -0000, "Brian Watson"
wrote:


"James Farrar" wrote in message
.. .
On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 14:04:44 -0000, "Brian Watson"
wrote:

I have to do this trip on Thursday morning after 9am.

I think Central line to Holborn, then Piccadilly out to Heathrow looks
quickest and easiest.

Is that the best route, d'you think?

Are you going to be carrying luggage?

One HUGE backpack.

:-)

In that case, the best advice I can give you is: When on trains, TAKE
IT OFF AND PUT IT ON THE FLOOR, please.

And yes, you should be best off changing at Holborn.

On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 17:14:19 +0000, Tom Anderson
wrote:

How about Central to Ealing Broadway, then Heathrow Connect to the
airport? JP puts that at 60-65 min. Slower than the HX, not significantly
faster than the tube, but it works with travelcards and it avoids a change
at Holborn - you have to go over a bridge at Ealing, i think, but it'll be
easier than finding your way through a maze of twisty little interchange
passages, all alike, and should be less busy. I'm not sure what the
frequency of the HC is, though

Half-hourly. Incidentally, when did they make Travelcards valid on
Connect?

Once upon a time -- around about 1/7/07 12:14 --
possibly wrote:

but it'll be
easier than finding your way through a maze of twisty little interchange
passages, all alike,
Oh, you must be a TRUE computer geek.


--
The Rings trilogy is more than a movie. It's a colossus on the march into
screen legend. -- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone (22 Jan 04)

On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, James Farrar wrote:

On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 17:14:19 +0000, Tom Anderson
wrote:

How about Central to Ealing Broadway, then Heathrow Connect to the
airport? JP puts that at 60-65 min. Slower than the HX, not significantly
faster than the tube, but it works with travelcards and it avoids a change
at Holborn - you have to go over a bridge at Ealing, i think, but it'll be
easier than finding your way through a maze of twisty little interchange
passages, all alike, and should be less busy. I'm not sure what the
frequency of the HC is, though

Half-hourly.

Oh, not such a hot idea then, unless you really trust the Central line.

Incidentally, when did they make Travelcards valid on Connect?

Oops. I was under the impression that they had been all along (i thought
this was part of the appeal of the service), but looking it up, i see that
they aren't. My mistake.

So, the Central + HC plan looking like a particularly bad one!

tom

--
Formal logical proofs, and therefore programs - formal logical proofs
that particular computations are possible, expressed in a formal system
called a programming language - are utterly meaningless. To write a
computer program you have to come to terms with this, to accept that
whatever you might want the program to mean, the machine will blindly
follow its meaningless rules and come to some meaningless conclusion. --
Dehnadi and Bornat