What is LCY security like in the mornings?
Apr 11, 2019, 6:28 am
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It's next Thursday - which is in the school holidays, BUT is the day before Good Friday. Flight prices suggest things will be busier than normal - hence the question really.
All this said, looks like I can get a train arriving London Bridge at 06:07 - I think the extra 8mins makes for a decent contingency and tips this into "doable 85%+ of the time" territory, so I think I'm going to go for it.
All this said, looks like I can get a train arriving London Bridge at 06:07 - I think the extra 8mins makes for a decent contingency and tips this into "doable 85%+ of the time" territory, so I think I'm going to go for it.
Apr 11, 2019, 8:00 am
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Apr 11, 2019, 8:14 am
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If you are on time into London Bridge then on tube + DLR, or indeed Uber, one would have an excellent chance of making the flight. If 10 minutes late then it gets dicey any way you do it. A Uber is going to take 25 to 30 minutes drive time to LCY, plus you have the usual where-is-the-Uber anxiety at pick-up. Due to the fairly fast Jubilee ride from London Bridge to Canning Town, Uber on this trip doesn't have much of an advantage, and brings new risk factors.
Apr 11, 2019, 8:20 am
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Obviously do what you can to minimise a secondary, so keep liquids, electronics, wires out of the main bag. They use a similar system to T5 and LGW, so multi-user bays with very large trays.
Apr 11, 2019, 8:41 am
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Other car services charge less than that.
OP on arrival at LBG I would go train LBG-Woolwich Arsenal and then DLR to LCY. I've done this route a few times (incidently from Brighton) and found it a lot smoother than the Tube option. Just watch out that at LBG trains to Woolwhich go from several platforms so use the National Rail Enquiries website / app to check on your approach to LBG.
Also where is your starting point on the day. As cws said the 'sticks' could be almost anywhere and there could be options you havn't thought about.
OP on arrival at LBG I would go train LBG-Woolwich Arsenal and then DLR to LCY. I've done this route a few times (incidently from Brighton) and found it a lot smoother than the Tube option. Just watch out that at LBG trains to Woolwhich go from several platforms so use the National Rail Enquiries website / app to check on your approach to LBG.
Also where is your starting point on the day. As cws said the 'sticks' could be almost anywhere and there could be options you havn't thought about.
Apr 11, 2019, 10:10 am
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Apr 11, 2019, 10:37 am
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OP on arrival at LBG I would go train LBG-Woolwich Arsenal and then DLR to LCY. I've done this route a few times (incidently from Brighton) and found it a lot smoother than the Tube option. Just watch out that at LBG trains to Woolwhich go from several platforms so use the National Rail Enquiries website / app to check on your approach to LBG.
At WA It’s 1 minute walk to the DLR platform and the journey to LCY (second stop) takes about 5 minutes. But you can wait up to 8 minutes at that time of the day if you just miss the DLR train so it’s risky...
Apr 11, 2019, 10:38 am
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If London Bridge has any kind of service fart you're stuffed, so if I was trying this on I'd have a backup plan on speed-dial in case there's an early morning train outage.
Apr 12, 2019, 12:15 am
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My concern would be the first train to London Bridge. You haven't said where you're staying, but none of the train companies operating into London Bridge have a great record for time keeping.
The Jubilee Line and DLR are usually reliable, though nothing is 100% guaranteed.
If you come by road, construction work near the airport entrance junction has been causing delays - the airport put a tweet out yesterday warning about this. I don't know if these works will continue into next week.
A cheap hotel with access to the DLR would be my risk reducing strategy.
The Jubilee Line and DLR are usually reliable, though nothing is 100% guaranteed.
If you come by road, construction work near the airport entrance junction has been causing delays - the airport put a tweet out yesterday warning about this. I don't know if these works will continue into next week.
A cheap hotel with access to the DLR would be my risk reducing strategy.
Apr 12, 2019, 12:40 am
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A Uber is going to take 25 to 30 minutes drive time to LCY, plus you have the usual where-is-the-Uber anxiety at pick-up. Due to the fairly fast Jubilee ride from London Bridge to Canning Town, Uber on this trip doesn't have much of an advantage, and brings new risk factors.
The fastest way from London Bridge to LCY will be TfL. The only time I would pick a car is if there is disruption with the trains - and then I would probably pick a black cab (no waiting for uber to arrive + use of bus lanes).
But realistically, OP should not worry. 6:15 is plenty to have contingency for the small things that can go wrong. And if a big disruption were to occur, an hour more would likely not make much difference.
Apr 12, 2019, 5:52 am
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Apr 12, 2019, 5:57 am
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While I wouldn't recommend going via Woolwich for lots of reasons, the maximum wait for a DLR to LCY at that time would be 4 minutes.
Apr 12, 2019, 6:07 am
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Apr 12, 2019, 6:13 am
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I use Hove Airport Cars . Always found them reliable and they didn't have a paddy when I accidentally gave them the wrong address once!
Apr 12, 2019, 12:00 pm
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The school holidays are causing bigger than usual queues at LCY, with people queued down the stairs to an additional set of Tensabarriers (escalator switched off) on some mornings. However this queue has been moving rapidly and I’d imagine things will settle down again over the next few days.