Non-Joined Up Thinking
On Saturday, I’m playing real tennis at Oxford University. As I want to go shopping in London afterwards, I intend to drive to Blackhorse Road and then get the train.
Type Blackhorse Horse and Oxford into the usually excellent National Rail web site and you get wonderfully tortuous routes from Blackhorse Road to Paddington. One takes the Victoria line to Finsbury Park and then says you should get the main line from Finsbury Park to Kings Cross.
Wouldn’t it be easier to just stay on the tube?
Remember that to calculate tube journey times, you count the stations and multiply by two. Then add in five for each interchange and that gives you the answer in minutes.
So Blackhorse Road to Paddington should take twenty-six minutes for the thirteen stations and another five for the exchange at Oxford Circus. I think that the exchange at Oxford Circus, is just a fifty metre walk through an overbridge, as the Bakerloo and Victoria lines are paired in that station.
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