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

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• IslandDweller says:

  26 Sep26 September 20:21

  The tfl (formerly Connect) service is fine if you’re easily connected to Paddington. But if you’re on the Southbank, the Waterloo train to Feltham (then bus) is quicker and cheaper.

  • Lady London says:

    27 Sep27 September 01:15

    You can catch Heathrow connect/tfl rail to Heathrow from Ealing Broadway on the Central Line and also on the District Line. You don;t have to start in Paddington. Just make sure you take a train whose destination is Ealing Broadway and not one that goes up the Ruislip branch if Central, same for District Line where you want Ealing Broadway trains. Then at Ealing Broadway just leave the Tube train (sorry, RussellH!) go up the stairs and down again to the other platform for the train to LHR.

    No worries about accidentally choosing to go to Ealing Common (which is about 1 mile away from the centre of Ealing and Ealing Broadway station) because, of course, Ealing Common is on the Piccadilly Line and that’s the one that is on strike..!

    • ADS says:

      27 Sep27 September 13:37

      as long as you can actually board trains at Ealing Broadway (that they haven’t already filled up at Paddington) ?!

      • Lady London says:

        27 Sep27 September 15:22

        I haven’t had that problem yet.. .but I may have missed the worst of the rush hour. People do often get out of the train at Ealing Broadway that started at Paddington, as it’s only one 1 stop from Paddington, takes about 15min IIRC and is by far the fastest way of getting to Ealing from town. personally could be a bunfight getting on at Paddington as well. Once you’re at Ealing Broadway you do have other ways to get to Heathrow easier than from Paddington although other ways are of course slower.

• Andy S says:

  26 Sep26 September 23:16

  Slightly OT – this reminds me, there are now ticket gates on the train platforms at heathrow for HEX/TFL. Can you still use these to shuttle between T23 and T4 or T5 ? Does this work the same as the tube in that you touch in with oyster or credit card and touch out again for a zero rated journey ?

  • John says:

    27 Sep27 September 04:15

    Yes oyster or bank card works, or you can press a button to get a free ticket that gets you through the barriers at both stations.

• ADS says:

  27 Sep27 September 13:40

  The TfL website says “Underground tickets are being accepted on TfL Rail between Paddington and Heathrow, South Western Railways between Waterloo and Feltham via Hounslow, the Overground, Great Northern and local bus services.”

  so this is probably one of the rare occasions where you are better off buying a paper ticket (if you are making a single journey), rather than using Oyster/Contactless (which would result in you being charged the higher TfLRail fare).

  • Lady London says:

    27 Sep27 September 15:23

    Yes. Good spot.

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