What is the best way to travel from London to Slough?
It depends how and where you come from.By air.Get to London Heathrow Airport which is the closest airport. From there you habe options of trains (not direct links yet but from 2020 there will be) busses and taxis.By carIf you take the M25 London Orbital you can exit at junctions 15 onto the M4 (follow signs to The West/Slough). Depending on your final destination within Slough you can then exit M4 on junctions 5 6 or 7. If you want central slough junction 6 is best.If you are coming from the east best option is join the M25 London Orbital and exit at the aforementioned exits.By railFrom London Paddington take trains towards Newbury / Oxford these have stops at Slough and take around 30-40 minutes. There is also a fast train from London Paddington to Slough which will get you to Slough in 10-15 minutes.Hope this helps. If you are looking for something more specific please let me know
What is the fastest way to get to Oxford from London?
Not sure why everyone ignores the fact there are two different coach services to London from Oxford - the Oxford Tube and the Oxford Espress (run by the Oxford bus company). If anything the Oxford Espress is slightly quicker, as it doesn't stop off at what is called 'Lewknor Turn' - is that junction 6 on the M40? However there are more regular Oxford Tube buses, which may tilt the balance. The problem with the train service, as mentioned above, is it doesn't operate at night/early morning. Also, you can spend a lot of time coming back from Paddington trying to work out which train to catch as there are slow services that stop at a lot of stations. If you are going to Holland Park or Notting Hill areas, the Oxford Tube is the best option. Going to Baker Street/Marylebone and Oxford Espress is the quicker choice. HTH
What's the best way to get to Oxford from London?
There are two good train services from Paddington and Marylebone stations. Both take around an hour. There are also two 24-hour bus services, the Oxford Tube and the X90. They mostly go from different stops in London but conveniently there is a bus stop at Marble Arch which serves both. The bus takes between 90 minutes and 2 hours plus depending on traffic and time of day.
Easy places to travel from london?
Forget Ireland. It's too far to do in a day unless you fly there, and then you'd get just a quick look at Dublin. If you want to have a look at the famous university cities of Oxford and Cambridge, they are "do-able" by train in a day but think about making an early start. They certainly aren't as far away as Aaron suggests - for goodness' sake, it's twice as far to Birmingham as to Oxford and the train to Birmingham from London takes 2 hours. The railway station for Oxford is Paddington, and for Cambridge, Liverpool Street. In both cities, the university dominates the city and it consists of a number of colleges spread all over the city - so don't ask where the university is or they'll think you're nuts, because it's everywhere! Cambridge is smaller and so the colleges are even more obvious, especially King's College with its famous chapel, and many others in the centre that are hundreds of years old - it's a real trip back in time almost to what a medieval town must have been like. Brighton could be interesting and there are regular non-stop trains from London Victoria that get there in 50 minutes. (House prices are quite high in Brighton because that makes it possible to live by the sea and still get to work in London every day.) If you have royal interests, Windsor Castle is an easy one for a day out from London. It's just outside the Greater London boundary. Go to Paddington and get a day return ticket to Windsor & Eton Central. Take a local train to Slough. Go to platform 1 there and there's a little shuttle train that goes just from Slough to Windsor and back. Exit the station at Windsor and you can't possibly miss the castle unless you're blind! If you want to go there, it's worth checking nearer the date with http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/visit/... as it is a working royal palace and the Queen might need at any time to use parts of it that are normally open. She lives there at weekends and it's very much the Royal Family's favourite home.
What is the best way for a tourist to travel to or from Oxford, England and London?
Do you mean travel between Oxford and London?Bus services (sometimes called coach services in the UK) are probably the cheapest way - National Express is one of the major providers, the Oxford Tube is another service that’s often recommended.Train will be slightly quicker but may be more expensive, though you can save money if you book in advance and commit to taking a specific train.Coaches and trains will pick you up and drop you off in the centre of both cities.If you mean “how do you travel to Oxford and London”, of course it would help if we knew where you are starting out from. But if you are coming from overseas, you will almost certainly have to travel via London.From most countries, flying is the only sensible option, and you’ll probably end up at one of the London airports. Heathrow is the closest of them to Oxford. Birmingham also has an international airport and is not far from Oxford, but it’s much smaller than the London airports.From France or Belgium you can go fairly easily by rail (via the Channel Tunnel); there are also bus services that use the tunnel.This doesn’t necessarily take any longer than flying, once the time you spend in the airport is factored in, although it’s not a practical choice unless you are starting out somewhere very close to the bus or train’s starting point - if you have to travel a long distance to get there anyway, you might as well just fly the whole way.There are also ferries operating from the north coast of France to the south coast of the UK, and from the Hook of Holland to Harwich. None of these will deposit you in London itself, but they will get you fairly close.They are unlikely to be the fastest or cheapest option, but again, if you are starting out from somewhere near the ferry port, they can be reasonably-priced and more fun than sitting on a bus.`
What is the best way to travel between Oxford and Cambridge?
By road the shortest route is:A34 out of Oxford past Bicester. Onto A421 (which has a short secion on the M1) via Milton Keynes then A 428 into Cambridge. That is 85 miles.Often it is quicker( but more distance) to take the A40/M40 towards London, M25 then M11 to Cambridge ( or you could take the A1(M) off the M25).By Bus: there is a good bus service.By train: via London, change stations from Paddington to Kings Cross for Cambridge.
What's the best way to travel from London to Loughborough?
London St Pancras to Loughborough by train.Do not get confused with Loughborough Junction, which is in North London!SeeNational Rail EnquiriesIf you want a cheaper way try National ExpressOr you can drive: Route Planner | Directions, traffic and maps | AADone the journey loads of times, live in London and my daughter was at Loughborough uni, while my wife has family there.I used drive and train. My other daughter on a longer haul used coach and swore she would train next time. But more expensive!
Is it practical to live in Oxford and work in London, since the cost of living is lower?
This is a commute that you manage — not one that you enjoy. If you can line up favorable circumstances you can make Oxford-to-London work, but you will be "making it work". Whenever I have considered tradeoffs of "bigger, more comfortable, cheaper place to live with long commute" versus "adequate, smaller, more expensive home with short commute", I've always chosen the shorter commute and I've always been pretty happy with how things work out.Two of my colleagues live in Oxford and commute to central London.They take the bus; rail is too expensive. There are two bus services — either the X90 or the Oxford Tube — and any veteran Oxford-to-London commuter can help explain the differences to you.Door-to-door commute time from their homes in Oxford to the office in central London is about 3 hours. The time gets longer if traffic on the motorways is flowing poorly — on days when things are looking bad, they will hang around the office late into the evening until things have cleared up. It's actually not so bad to be stuck an extra hour on a coach that's got Wi-Fi.This is not a journey you should do daily if at all possible. To avoid taking this journey ten times a week, my colleagues find ways to stay in London at least a few days a week, or to work from elsewhere.One of my colleagues who does this commute is planning to stop it soon. When he took the job in London, he had lined up a place to live in south London; but the deal fell through at the last minute and he ended up renewing his lease for an extra year in Oxford. He stays with family in London several nights a week.My other colleague who does this commute doesn't plan to stop it. But he also has family he stays with in London for a few nights in a row during the week, and he also works from home when possible, often about one day a week.
What is the best way to get from London Heathrow Airport to Oxford, England?
It is entirely reasonable to consider taking a cab, especially if there is more than one of you travelling. This is much easier than getting the bus or the train for a few reasons: you won't have to worry about transfers, you won't have to lug your bags around (either to the train station or the bus terminal), and you'll get exactly where you need to go, as opposed to having to take a taxi or bus within Oxford. In addition, the buses and trains run infrequently or not at all during the small hours of the morning. Trying to get to Terminal 5 for a flight at odd hours can be enormously difficult when you need to take a local bus from Heathrow's bus terminal.When my wife and I travel to Heathrow we always take a cab straight there. As we live on the outskirts of Oxford we'd have to take a taxi to the Oxford bus station anyways, so round-trip we'd be out at least £20 for two taxi rides. Bus tickets are (at time of writing) £29 per person for a period return, so for a full trip for two we'd spend about £80 on transportation (it's much more for the train). A taxi, booked in advance, starts from £65 flat rate (depending on who you use) for one direction, so £130 round trip. The extra £50 compared to the bus is easily worth the reduction in stress and the shortened travel time: a single airport taxi trip, door-to-door, usually takes around an hour, instead of twenty minutes for the taxi to the bus station, 90 minutes for the bus, and associated waiting and transfer times. You'll need to book your taxi in advance if you want a reasonable price, but that's not difficult and you'll then be picked up in the terminal. The amount of money you spend will determine how that works: cheaper taxi services will text or call you when they arrive and will generally try to minimize the time they spend waiting, while more expensive ones will track your flight and be waiting in the airport with a sign.Here are a few taxi companies I've used before (there are lots more you can find by searching). 001 and Royal Cars have always been solid and reasonably-priced choices, though you need a phone when you arrive in Heathrow as the driver will call you. Pryors is a great full-service operation based out of nearby Didcot, but you pay accordingly; I've used them on business and to pick up my parents when they come to visit.http://www.001taxis.com/http://www.royal-cars.comhttp://pryors.co.uk/