Nearest rail station to Uxbridge

[Minnie_the_Minx]

You can come and meet me for lunch

The tube is actually pretty easy. Brixton - Green Park(Vic)/Green Park - Finchley Road (Jubilee) /Finchley Road - Uxbridge (metropolitan). Finchley Rd interchange is just across platform so easy but there is one escalator, a corridor and a short flight of steps between Vic and Jub at Green Park so not sure if that'd be possible.

Other alternative is to get the overground from Loughborough Junction to West Hampstead and then get the Jubilee line to Wembley Park and then switch to Metro. There are lots of steps from platform though on overground so that may not be an option.

If you do option 1, you'll be looking at about 1h 15m all in

Blimey, that sounds long winded

Decided West Drayton sounds easier.

Brixton to Oxford Circus, change for Bakerloo Line. Bakerloo Line to Paddington - 25 minutes (depending on walk to get to Bakerloo Line)

Paddington - West Drayton - 25 minutes

Taxi from West Drayton - 5/10 minutes?


Sorry Trashy, you'll have to eat alone

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Paddington is a bit of a trek from the tube entrance, you have to walk down to platform 14 (IIRC) the other end of the station. Marylebone is turn left as you come out of the tube but as I said West Ruislip is much further away than Uxbridge or West Drayton.

That's alright, he's able to walk the length of the platforms at Victoria, and he'll have had a rest on the tube and be getting another half hour sit down once he gets on the train. It'll be on the return journey where he'll really start to get tired

As long as he manages to get a rest in between walks he'll be fine, but all the walks do add up for him, even if they're relatively short.

Obviously going uphill and upstairs knackers him more so the less of that, the better

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I'm wondering now whether to go tomorrow. Might be less daunting on a Sunday, but then again, there may be fewer trains

argh, the joys of having someone who can't walk far or fast and risks getting lost

 

[trashpony]

Blimey, that sounds long winded

Decided West Drayton sounds easier.

Brixton to Oxford Circus, change for Bakerloo Line. Bakerloo Line to Paddington - 25 minutes (depending on walk to get to Bakerloo Line)

Paddington - West Drayton - 25 minutes

Taxi from West Drayton - 5/10 minutes?


Sorry Trashy, you'll have to eat alone

That's 2 tubes and a train which is no different from my suggestions. I was just helpfully including change info.

Actually do you have that disability tfl map thing? Where it tells you how many steps are between changes? It's v good. No stairs between B'loo and Padd'n - it's all escalators. But it is a way to the platforms. When you get to the top of the little escalators onto the main station concourse, get your bf to wait there (or start walking right) because you need to go left to the ticket machines and right to the platform. It is a good 5 mins walk from the concourse to the weirdly little local platforms at the end of the station. But it's flat. Or you could get one of the blokes on the beepy trucks to take him?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

That's 2 tubes and a train which is no different from my suggestions. I was just helpfully including change info.

Actually do you have that disability tfl map thing? Where it tells you how many steps are between changes? It's v good. No stairs between B'loo and Padd'n - it's all escalators. But it is a way to the platforms. When you get to the top of the little escalators onto the main station concourse, get your bf to wait there (or start walking right) because you need to go left to the ticket machines and right to the platform. It is a good 5 mins walk from the concourse to the weirdly little local platforms at the end of the station. But it's flat. Or you could get one of the blokes on the beepy trucks to take him?

Nah, he's able for stairs (he lives on 4th floor with no lift). He can walk quite a way if I force him to. It's just that he'd prefer to rest, but I don't let him if I'm on a mission to get somewhere. If I'm not, I'd let him rest every 5 minutes.

He's lost 4 pounds since I've been off work as he's now able to go further than the shop as I keep dragging him out and making him walk


PS: Your instructions were for Uxbridge. I'm going to West Drayon aren't I? Starting to forget where I'm going now!

You can get overhead rail tickets at tube stations can't you?

 

[Bungle73]

I still don't get why you want to faff about getting on tubes and then off onto an overground train and then on to a bus when you could just get the tube straight there?

Paddington is a bit of a trek from the tube entrance, you have to walk down to platform 14 (IIRC) the other end of the station.

That's the H&C line platforms.

 

[trashpony]

I still don't get why you want to faff about getting on tubes and then off onto an overground train and then on to a bus when you could just get the tube straight there?


That's the H&C line platforms.

No it isn't. The local overground service (which is the one that minnie would get) leaves right down the end of the station.

 

[trashpony]

PS: Your instructions were for Uxbridge. I'm going to West Drayon aren't I? Starting to forget where I'm going now!

You can get overhead rail tickets at tube stations can't you?

Not the bits about paddington, no. And yes you can.

 

[Bungle73]

No it isn't. The local overground service (which is the one that minnie would get) leaves right down the end of the station.

Of course. I was thinking of walking from the tube to the main concourse.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I still don't get why you want to faff about getting on tubes and then off onto an overground train and then on to a bus when you could just get the tube straight there?


That's the H&C line platforms.

Tube seems longer, and it sounds like it would be easier from West Drayton. An hour on rail just doesn't seem as long as on a tube

However, if we do go that route, then I would go for Metropolitan Line as going on Piccadilly means b/f ends up getting his toes bashed with suitcases and the like

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Not the bits about paddington, no. And yes you can.

oh right

Will have a look

 

[paolo]

I'd use Journey Planner, then do what it says.

(It's got mobility options too, so you can, for example, limit the amount of walking or eliminate stairs or whatever).

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I'd use Journey Planner, then do what it says.

(It's got mobility options too, so you can, for example, limit the amount of walking or eliminate stairs or whatever).

I did use journey planner. It gave me the going by tube option. I looked on National Rail for the overhead options, although I could take the tube out of the equation on the journey planner and see what it comes up with

 

[paolo]

I did use journey planner. It gave me the going by tube option. I looked on National Rail for the overhead options, although I could take the tube out of the equation on the journey planner and see what it comes up with

Ah k. To West Drayton it's giving 52 mins as the quickest, vs. 102 via the Met (both from Brixton).

One possible problem with the overground route though is frequency of trains. Unless they're more frequent than every 30 mins, you'll probably end up with 15 mins 'dead' time at Paddington, and there is that irritating walk if your train goes from 'the other end'.

All things considered, I'd go for the Met. Then again that would, in part, be for the trainspottery sentimentality of Sir John Betjemans wonderful Metroland.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Ah k. To West Drayton it's giving 52 mins as the quickest, vs. 102 via the Met (both from Brixton).

One possible problem with the overground route though is frequency of trains. Unless they're more frequent than every 30 mins, you'll probably end up with 15 mins 'dead' time at Paddington, and there is that irritating walk if your train goes from 'the other end'.

All things considered, I'd go for the Met. Then again that would, in part, be for the trainspottery sentimentality of Sir John Betjemans wonderful Metroland.

The trains look to be fairly frequent middayish and only take 25 minutes

 

[Maggot]

PS: Your instructions were for Uxbridge. I'm going to West Drayon aren't I? Starting to forget where I'm going now!

You can get overhead rail tickets at tube stations can't you?

You asked about Uxbridge in the thread title, you can't go moving the goalposts like that!

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

Uxbridge train station doesn't have stairs by the way.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

You asked about Uxbridge in the thread title, you can't go moving the goalposts like that!

I can if I don't know what else is near

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Went to West Drayton, via Jubilee Line from Green Park to Baker Street, train to Paddington then overhead.

Return journey, bus to Uxbridge, Metropolitan Line to Finchley, Jubilee Line from Finchley.

Have had a knackering day. Thanks for all the travel advice.

 

[trashpony]

Did you like the sofas though?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Well I bought this.

But picked a kind of charcoal grey/black colour. Not sure if I want the colour now


It's like this but it's a bit darker (Pewter). Worried it'll look like a sofa in an office reception. Oh well

http://www.nabru.co.uk/fabric_holland.php

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copied from DFS Sofa post

 

[trashpony]

It's nice Hope they'll deliver! I didn't leave the office today but did notice there were no taxis at the rank when I got to work this am so was a bit worried for you

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

It's nice Hope they'll deliver! I didn't leave the office today but did notice there were no taxis at the rank when I got to work this am so was a bit worried for you

Yeah, slight problem with that. They'll deliver lots of stuff free and because we're getting ours within 3 weeks, it's free. Unfortunately, if you live in flats, they'll only deliver to communal front doors.

So, we've decided to get them to assembly it (£40). That way they have to carry it up four flights of stairs

Now I'm thinking of ordering the two-seater sofa bed. It means they have to assemble it for the same price if you order more than one item.

 

[paolo]

Nice sofa - clean simple design, always wins.

You have measured that it will go up the stairs and in through your door?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Nice sofa - clean simple design, always wins.

You have measured that it will go up the stairs and in through your door?

No, not checked it will go up stairs and through door

 

[paolo]

No, not checked it will go up stairs and through door

Now you know what your top priority job is tomorrow morning. Or now.

(I speak from experience of a very close shave with a sofa. Needed to remove a light fitting in a communal corridor to get it through.).

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Now you know what your top priority job is tomorrow morning. Or now.

It's flatpacked furniture, I don't need to check whether it'll fit through the door

 

[paolo]

It's flatpacked furniture, I don't need to check whether it'll fit through the door

Ahh...

When you said assembled, I thought that meant pre-assembled. My mistake. Like they'd do that... doh.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Ahh...

When you said assembled, I thought that meant pre-assembled. My mistake. Like they'd do that... doh.

They'll assemble it for you for a fee of £40 so we're doing that. It looks easy to put together but they won't deliver up four flights of steps, only to communal door, which means we've had to go for the assemble option.