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

[cardinalsin.livejournal.com]

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

Dunno about gatwick, though vague memory of seeing it (the bus, not the airport!) at the bus station suggests it is still about.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

The airline bus is run by the Oxford bus company, and replaces the X70. That's the one I've always got to Heathrow.

The Oxford tube is run by Stagecoach: http://www.stagecoach-oxford.co.uk/oxfordtube/ and has no mention of airport services. So I suspect that you're stuffed.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

As far as I know it has always been 1 hour+ between buses in the middle of the night. Certainly it has been every time I've wanted one.

[bibliogirl.livejournal.com]

The other alternative might be just to get any of the usual buses into Victoria, and hook up with the Gatwick Express, which runs all night; every 30 minutes, I think. Probably costs more, though.

[leathellin.livejournal.com]

There is also National Express but they don't go any more often. http://www.nationalexpress.com/nxairport/home.cfm

There is also a direct rail link between Reading and Gatwick which apparently turns into a luxury coach at night. Sort of like a pumpkin I guess.

[pookee.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I know nothing about Heathrow/Gatwick Tubes, but I just wanted to say thanks for the Earworm Of The Day.

(Not Barenaked Ladies, but the subject header!)