Piccadilly Line strike now on until Friday afternoon – no trains to Heathrow

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• Sir Richard says:

  26 Sep26 September 13:45

  I’m quite happy for any virgins – sorry, virgin Londoners – to make use of my Limo bike service if they don’t mind putting a few pounds into my island rebuild crowd funding website.

• Lady London says:

  26 Sep26 September 13:51

  I think the 140 bus and various buses from Uxbridge (reachable except late at night via Metropolitan line) also can get you to Heathrow from other London Underground stations.

  I’d recommend Heathrow Connect/TFL Rail from Ealing Broadway which is Zone 3.

  • 1nfrequent says:

    27 Sep27 September 11:10

    The Met Line closes between Aldgate and Wembley Park from about 10pm on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays but still runs from Wembley Park to Uxbridge until just after midnight. When you get to Uxbridge station, then there’s a bus station right outside it (as you leave the barriers, turn right and the exit leads straight into the bus station) and the A10 and U3 buses run to Heathrow Central every 15 minutes. A10 is faster than the U3 by about 10 – 15 minutes. Bus fare is a flat £1.50. If you need to get to Terminal 5 then A10 to Stockley Park (there are 3 stops there so you can get off at any of them) and switch to the 350, which takes you right outside Terminal 5. As long as you’re taking both buses in the same hour, you won’t pay more than £1.50.

• RussellH says:

  26 Sep26 September 13:54

  Surely that picture is S-Stock, not tube stock?

  • Rob says:

    26 Sep26 September 13:59

    Yes it is. And your point is …?! 🙂

    • sunguy says:

      26 Sep26 September 14:28

      +1
      It is tube stock! Its in LU livery and unless you get over technical – I use the “tube” every day and get on one of these!

      If you want to get all very technical and remind users that the Metropolitan Railway went beyond Aylesbury and on to Verney Junction – so cannot possibly be considered London or the Tube…..then thats pedantic and not worthy of this site 😉

      • RussellH says:

        26 Sep26 September 15:27

        Sorry, it is not Tube Stock. Surface stock has always been named with letters Q, R, H, C, D and most recently, S. Surface stock does not fit in a tube tunnel. Tube stock, which is designed for the deep tube lines, is named after the year of (nominal) introduction. The Piccadilly line uses 1973 Tube Stock. A story about the pic should be illustrated by a picture of a train that runs on the pic.

        You may call the Met, H+C, Circle and District “the tube”. Those who work for LU do not. Plenty of readers comment when the picture of an aircraft is slightly wrong. The difference between S Stock and 1973 tube stock is like the difference between a B 727 and an A380.

        • Rob says:

          26 Sep26 September 17:12

          But the Piccadilly trains are really ugly and you got a picture of snazzy new ones instead! I know what they look like, I am in Knightbridge most mornings after dropping my kids at school.

      • Crafty says:

        26 Sep26 September 15:44

        So, negligible and nobody actually cares…?

      • Lumma says:

        26 Sep26 September 16:32

        Boy, I sure hope somebody got fired for that blunder

      • Pushes Up Specs Before Speaking says:

        26 Sep26 September 18:12

        The Metropolitan line runs past Liverpool street to Aldgate so has to be considered the tube as it runs underground, through tunnels and into the city.

      • Lady London says:

        27 Sep27 September 01:05

        Although not quite as entertaining as the gynormous “CATHAY PACIIC” Cathay just paid to have painted on one of their planes…. er… And it got wheeled out of the hangar with that gynormous spelling mistake emblazoned on the plane…!

    • BJ says:

      26 Sep26 September 17:37

      I think Russell is a railway enthusiast…and that’s the whole point 🙂

      • Someone unexciting says:

        26 Sep26 September 18:01

        Russell, as “someone who worked on the tube” until very recently, let me assure you that both deep tube and SSR are referred to as “the tube” by everyone, including staff.

      • RussellH says:

        26 Sep26 September 18:03

        I think that is putting it a bit too strongly – I prefer knowledgeable.
        🙂

        I do much prefer trains to planes, even though we grew up under the flightpath into LHR – in the days when there were many more manufacturers, shapes and designs up in the sky. Vivid memories of Lockheed Constellations which always sounded as if bits were about to fall off the plane, and the very first jet airliners…

        As for London Underground, I do joke about it being the family firm. One nephew is the third generation to work for them.

• signol says:

  26 Sep26 September 14:18

  Also another good route is the Waterloo to Feltham line, then bus from there.

  • Lady London says:

    27 Sep27 September 01:08

    Yes. However having spent a while working in Sunbury, the number 5nn bus that goes from Feltham/Sunbury to Heathrow/Hatton Cross, can sometimes be just missing on 2 out of its 3 20-minute rotations in any particular hour you may be desperate to get to the airport from Sunbury, at least… Thanks for clarifying that there is something from Feltham though.

• Funtime says:

  26 Sep26 September 14:27

  First I heard of it was at Green Park at 12.15 waiting for the next train. Must have literally caught the last one running to Heathrow T3.

  Now finally making some use of my PP in the Aspire.

  • Lumma says:

    26 Sep26 September 16:52

    It was mentioned on BBC breakfast this morning

• Paul says:

  26 Sep26 September 16:55

  An ‘all-out’ strike of one grade of staff (well technically two).

  • Mike says:

    26 Sep26 September 17:07

    I make it three grades of staff.

    TO21&IO21 until Friday lunchtime.
    TO23 Friday night!

    • Paul says:

      27 Sep27 September 11:10

      oh yea!

  • Rob says:

    26 Sep26 September 17:08

    ‘all-trains-out’

• Phil says:

  26 Sep26 September 17:19

  Thank goodness I saw this. Left office in Kings Cross (with laptop to work from home rest of week) at 4:30pm. Massive queue in tunnel to get the Victoria line. Turned around and got the Thameslink home. So pleased it runs near my home. Oh and the lovely TFL staff have closed the old short route to platforms making everyone go the new long route.

• BJ says:

  26 Sep26 September 17:33

  It’s 2018: driverless trains, automated ticket machines only, robotic customer support and videochat links to Pune in event anything goes wrong…problem solved!

  • Lady London says:

    27 Sep27 September 01:10

    sounds just like BA really.

  • Paul says:

    27 Sep27 September 11:14

    Having driverless trains worked well for the last round of DLR strikes didn’t it…

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