{"id":3126,"date":"2023-09-06T01:31:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T01:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/happy-or-horrific-at-heathrow-part-2a\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T01:31:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T01:31:52","slug":"happy-or-horrific-at-heathrow-part-2a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/happy-or-horrific-at-heathrow-part-2a\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Or Horrific At Heathrow Part 2A"},"content":{"rendered":"
First The Good News (If You Can Fund It)<\/span><\/p>\n … who has visited London ..<\/p>\n China is\u00a0 a bit big to discover all at one go.<\/p>\n Or you could go to Nyetimber.<\/p>\n Pardon? Speak Up?<\/p>\n Oh! It’s not a flight destination, it’s a brand of UK wine …<\/p>\n But what we want is public transport to or from the Airport.<\/p>\n Best check the small print – the very small print.<\/span><\/p>\n Before delving further, fbb must say that, with one undated exception, these seem to be up to date – being labelled August 2023<\/span>.<\/p><\/div>\n For its size it is a remarkably good effort. The colour coding is helpful …<\/p>\n … although fbb guesses that its compiler did not know that “Superloop” services are very ordinary London Transport bus routes with a fancy name. N30 and A60 are a mystery to fbb, but he has parked that on his “to do” list for later.<\/p><\/div>\n … with a helpful note explaining the numbering stupidity. It also shows the RA3 to Watford but only as a dotted black line with no nomenclature.<\/p>\n Is that because it is “a coach” and if so, where are the National Express “coach” services? But we will meet these later on.<\/p><\/div>\n\n Heathrow Area Bus Map<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n It is still a challenge to understand these Heathrow subsidized services. The map key is simple but gives the important distinction between TfL and non-Tfl routes.<\/p>\n fbb could not resist he temptation to go to Carlone Buses web site to see what they made of their own 442 and X442 services.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n … with a Blogger enforced gap between Ashford Hospital and Staines-on-Thames.<\/p>\n The timetables for the two routes are shown separately, 442 …<\/p>\n … and X442.<\/p>\n But what is doubly excellent is that journeys via those wiggles to Stanwell Moor (see top map) are shown separately …<\/p>\n … thus easy to follow and devoid of a plethora of explanatory notes.<\/p><\/div>\n … a high tech system with which older readers may be familiar.<\/p><\/div>\n … affix<\/span> (technical term) a postage stamp<\/span> and let Royal Mail<\/span> deliver it to a remote recipient.<\/p><\/div>\n
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