Gatwick plane to train - 1 1/2 hours enough?
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Landing at Gatwick from USA at 7:35am and need to get the train home.
There's one at 9:07am and one at 11:03am. I really don't want to hang around for three hours, but am I pushing it to catch the 9:07? No luggage in hold, just hand luggage.
Anyone caught the train from Gatwick and know how long to allow?
There's one at 9:07am and one at 11:03am. I really don't want to hang around for three hours, but am I pushing it to catch the 9:07? No luggage in hold, just hand luggage.
Anyone caught the train from Gatwick and know how long to allow?
Landed at Gatwick the other day and plane to train, including baggage (amazingly mine was the first on the carousel) was 20 minutes.
The plane was an hour and a half late though, but it was a budget airline.
I'd imagine if you are coming from the States there might be a bit of a wait at passport control even if you have a UK passport. Last couple of trips have involved a short hold up, one of them coming back from Dublin.
The plane was an hour and a half late though, but it was a budget airline.
I'd imagine if you are coming from the States there might be a bit of a wait at passport control even if you have a UK passport. Last couple of trips have involved a short hold up, one of them coming back from Dublin.
I had to do this yesterday. From landing at the furthest extremities of the North Terminal to reaching the station was about 25 minutes. Passport control was quite quick, I didn't have any hold baggage to collect and I had to wait about 5 minutes for the shuttle to the South Terminal.
Given your timings you shouldn't have a problem, but as general advice remember to allow some time to buy a rail ticket if you don't have one already - the queues can be long and populated by tired travellers who don't know where they're going or speak the lingo or work the machines etc...
Given your timings you shouldn't have a problem, but as general advice remember to allow some time to buy a rail ticket if you don't have one already - the queues can be long and populated by tired travellers who don't know where they're going or speak the lingo or work the machines etc...
It worked a charm, even had time for a nice cooked breakfast!
Went wrong at Reading though, train in was late, had two minutes to catch connecting train. Dived onto platform, checked board, connection leaving platform 4, raced across, dived on, train pulls out, turns out to be an earlier train going to Oxford. D'oh!
Went wrong at Reading though, train in was late, had two minutes to catch connecting train. Dived onto platform, checked board, connection leaving platform 4, raced across, dived on, train pulls out, turns out to be an earlier train going to Oxford. D'oh!
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