Airport, you've got a smiling face

[venta]

Can anyone confirm/deny the continued existence of the Heathrow/Gatwick Tube ? Looking online for it last night, I couldn't find anything about it, let alone a timetable.

The airline bus (the blue one) which now runs has timetables on line (did it replace the Tube ?), but sadly they weren't very obliging. If someone in Oxford wants to be in Gatwick for 7am, they can either catch the 5:15 bus and be late, or catch the 4am bus and be stupidly early.

All of which explains why, by 7am this morning, I was already driving back round the M25, boogying to Walk of Life. Well, all right, nothing really explains the Dire Straits.

I love the smell of benzine in the morning.

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

Its the Heathrow Express, it still exists, and still runs the way it used to.

Hmm. You don't know of its website offhand, do you ? I thought it was run by the Tube people (even if it's not called that), but the Tube website deals exclusively with the Oxford->Central London one.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

http://www.oxfordbus.co.uk/heathrow.html

[venta.livejournal.com]

No, that's the airline bus. I want the red one.

[cardinalsin.livejournal.com]

Oh! You're right, it does have a blip around midnight-4am, contrary to their advertising. Poot. In that case, no, you're screwed, since that is the only Heathrow-Oxford bus.

Again, can't speak for Gatwick.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ah - so the Heathrow Express is the same, blue, airline bus I'm talking about ? And the Tube-like one no longer exists ?

Bum.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's the one you're talking about. Yup, there's an hour and a quarter between the buses. Sucks, dunnit?