Should we book ahead train tickets from Heathrow Terminal 5 to York? We want least amount of changes of trains. We are arriving this Friday. Our plane is scheduled to arrive at 12:30. We did purchase Two Together Railcard (digital version). Easy process online.
Posted by
Lake District, England
8151 posts
I wouldn't, simply because you don't know what time your flight will actually arrive.
If you book an advance ticket and your flight is so late that you miss the train then your ticket is void.
Advance tickets are available until the last moment. I am writing this at 6.10pm, and advance tickets are available for the 6.30 from KC tonight, and every later train.
That is normal.
So as soon as you are through immigration and collected luggage book the train tickets on your phone. It will take 1 hour to reach KC on the Piccadilly line, so at that stage book a train for between 1 1/2 to 2 hours time- gives you a buffer in case the tube gets delayed en route and to avoid any stress at KC.
Posted by
OP
Beaverton
20 posts
Thank you. You confirmed what I was thinking as well. I am assuming KC is King's Cross?
Posted by
Lake District, England
8151 posts
Yes KC is KIngs Cross
Posted by
Northamptonshire, England
34010 posts
the more common abbreviation for Kings Cross station is KX, and the area around the station and up to Coal Drops (look here for the excellent Indian restaurant Dishoom) is rebranding itself as KX too. The official abbreviation for the station is KGX by the way.
If you are travelling this week you will find that buying the tickets as late as today won't get you much over getting late Advance tickets when you land. If you want the absolute fewest changes then Piccadilly Underground for about an hour to Kings Cross St Pancras tube stop, then there are escalators and lifts up to Kings Cross station and St Pancras International station next door across a small street. Just follow the clear signage. If you wind up at St Pancras, no probs, literally right across the road.