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Hi
Is getting the tube from London Charing Cross (with a change ) to Heathrow the same price regardless which line you take when using contactless. It Someone said Elizabeth line is more expensive than Piccadilly Line
@tilly, I don’t know if it’s 100% accurate but I’ve noticed when plotting public transport routes on Google Maps it give you a price with each option. I know it was saying £5.80 from Hyde Park to T5 on the Piccadilly line yesterday.
Yes much more expensive. Lizzie line is not the Tube and will set you back £13.80.
https://tfl.gov.uk/fares/London Charing Cross is the National Rail station. The tube station is just Charing Cross.
Yes, for a single journey paid by Oyster or contactless, the Elizabeth line is more expensive to Heathrow than the Piccadilly line. This is because there is a premium charged for making a single journey to Heathrow on the Elizabeth line. Otherwise the fares would be the same.
It is not an official site but https://www.ltfares.com will show you all fares set by TfL.
You’re right. Getting to Heathrow on the Elizabeth line is more expensive, because (confusingly) although it does go underground in London, the Elizabeth line is not a tube line.
Any combination of “normal” tube lines will always be the same cost between two points, as all the tfl computers know is where you tap in and where you tap out.
The Elizabeth line has separate ticket barriers, and will deposit you at Heathrow railway station, not the underground station, so the computer knows you came a more expensive way.
If you are arriving into Charing Cross train station the simplest way to LHR via the tube is to walk down Villiers Street to Embankment Station and take the district line to Barons Court and cross the platform to the Piccadilly line.
If you tell is your actual starting point we can give more specific advice on the best and cheapest routing to take.
Is it true you can make a Heathrow journey cheaper still by tapping out and in again at Hatton Cross? Never tried it myself but I’ll sure I read it somewhere. Not much use if running late or travelling alone with heavy luggage as I think there are stairs.
That sounds a bit extreme but Hatton Cross to T5 does seem to add a disproportionate £2 or so to the trip so maybe it’s something to do with that!
Just plotting routes for our stay next weekend. It feels a bit bonkers flying to London for the weekend (especially as there’s no MAN-LCY service any more), but the trains are utterly unreliable and the Piccadilly line does take us pretty much directly from T5 to the ICPL so it doesn’t feel too onerous. And we can use the First Wing and F lounge on the way back, even with our economy avios tickets, which feels so much more inviting than Euston station on a bank holiday Monday!
I’ve just calculated there’s actually nothing in it between plane and train, door to door, and the train is more likely to be disrupted!
NL, you ever considered the LNER from Leeds to King’s Cross? The trains are reliable and extremely frequent. Always plenty of supporters from teams over the hill going to the capital whenever I’m on it on match day, and only last week I was speaking to a family from Rochdale area that was on the Leeds to London train.
I’m staying at Heathrow at end of May and going to go get the Elizabeth line in I think. On the way back, I will probably go to Barbican and get the “secret lift”, before convincing myself that I’ve cheated my way to Farringdon as it makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something.
Is it true you can make a Heathrow journey cheaper still by tapping out and in again at Hatton Cross?
Yes it can be, if no luggage and you think it worth the effort. To Hatton Cross is normal tube fares, then free from there to Heathrow. Going ‘direct’ to Heathrow you pay peak fares at all times.
Is it true you can make a Heathrow journey cheaper still by tapping out and in again at Hatton Cross? Never tried it myself but I’ll sure I read it somewhere. Not much use if running late or travelling alone with heavy luggage as I think there are stairs.
Yes but you need to tap out and then in again. And yes there are stairs. I suppose if there are more than one of you one can stay at the platform whilst the other goes and does the tapping. But it does indeed delay the journey time.
Any trip to / from LHR to Zone 1 (or crosses it) is now peak fare all day.
Was done in late 2022 as TFL were required to increase fare income by the Sunak govenments covid support to TFL (something that no other transport operator was required to do). Given that the vast majoroty of people on this route are visitors this was a easier way to raise revenue without affecting London residents.
So that’s Transport for London’s version of a local tourist tax?
And the Heathrow Drop-Off fee, which has gone up and upas predicted, is Heathrow’s equivalent of a resort fee?
So that’s Transport for London’s version of a local tourist tax?
Tourists plus the (generally) wealthier Londoners
@yorkshireRich, Leeds is 90 mins from us in the wrong direction so probably not worth it!
@LL, we have actual tourist taxes up here – currently £1.20 pn in Manchester and Liverpool to introduce £2 pn soon. Feels like a kick in the teeth to have to pay an extra fee to visit your own country!
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