Originally Posted by
EvilDoctorK
Question for the audience, whenever I get a cab to Paddington they go around a super long way via Edgware Rd. and the start of the A40 around the back of the station .. can you get a cabbie to drop you to Paddington a faster way? )
Ask to go to Praed Street (pronounced "prayed") which is the main street in front of Paddington station, and get out at the east end of the Hilton hotel. The pedestrian entrance here into the station takes you directly to the HEx platforms. That big road loop around is the official cab route to the station's drop-off point, it clicks about another £3 onto the meter and puts you off further away from the HEx than this point. However the place I'm recommending is right on a narrow busy street, it is not one for those with four suitcases and who then fumble with their money for the driver
This is why there's the proper off-street getting-out point elsewhere.
http://maps.google.com/?ll=51.515864...71.48,,0,-0.91
Piccadilly Line tube at rush hour ... I think theoretical journey time from Hyde Park Corner to T5 is around 45 mins
Actually 53 minutes. That's from the train departing the platform at HPC. Need to allow for getting down there and a T5 train then only being No 4 in the sequence (in the evening rush hour they go 1 - Uxbridge, 2 - T4, 3 - Northfields, 4 - T5, trains every 2.5 minutes repeating the pattern after 10 minutes).