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2 questions about English country side travel

We will be traveling from Oxford to Winsor then on to Gatwick area in September. We will have no car but be traveling by bus and train.

  1. Is it possible to take a bus or train from Oxford to Winsor with out going through London? A local route?
  2. Do you know of a B&B near Gatwick that offers shuttle service to the airport? Thank you!
Posted by
33994 posts

1 yes.
First Great Western runs the Oxford to London Paddington service. The train stops twice and then the third stop is Slough.

Get off there and go over the footbridge to the little Windsor and Eton Central shuttle train which goes every 20 minutes and gets to Windsor and Eton Central in 4 minutes, before you have had a chance to say Boo. Total travel time from Oxford station - 58 minutes.

1a I don't know from buses. I work on the trains. That's enough for me.

2.No.

Posted by
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Hi, You used one of the formatting tools when you entered your question. I've done that too, but caught it and gone back in with editing to fix it. I think that you likely clicked on one of the icons directly to the right of the bulleted list icon.

Click edit your post and then use the preview box below to help you get it back to normal size. They we won't feel like you're yelling at us. :)

The first one adds a heading

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But sometime when I'm formatting something, I click on the wrong one and getting a heading instead of the line.


What may have happened is that you used the second one, but didn't like the spacing and so took out the space between the text and the bottom dashed line.


When you do that, the text changes to the heading font.

And note that you lose the dashed line in the viewable text, but not in your original entry. Why this happens is a mystery for the webmaster.

Pam

[Editor's note: Fixed it for you, this time. Laura]

Posted by
33994 posts

By the way, as you are searching and looking at timetables, etc., note that there is a "D" in Windsor.

Posted by
5466 posts

There is no sensible bus/coach route between between Oxford and Windsor - stick with the train.