Re: [EuroPython] Train from London Heathrow to Birmingham this Saturday

2010-07-14 Thread Zeth
On 13 July 2010 15:31, Terry Jones wrote: >> your quickest and cheapest option looks like it is the national express >> coach > > I highly recommend taking a coach too. It's so much easier. +1 on the national express coach, I take it all the time. However, I do have the ability to sleep the whole

Re: [EuroPython] Train from London Heathrow to Birmingham this Saturday

2010-07-14 Thread Michael Foord
On 14/07/2010 14:08, Michael Sparks wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Terry Jones wrote: your quickest and cheapest option looks like it is the national express coach I highly recommend taking a c

Re: [EuroPython] Train from London Heathrow to Birmingham this Saturday

2010-07-14 Thread Michael Sparks
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Terry Jones wrote: >>> your quickest and cheapest option looks like it is the national express >>> coach >> >> I highly recommend taking a coach too. It's so much easier. > >  anyone else going

Re: [EuroPython] Train from London Heathrow to Birmingham this Saturday

2010-07-14 Thread Stephen Welch
On 14 July 2010 13:27, Guido van Rossum wrote: > Thanks -- but you forgot to reply-all. :-) Ahh yes. > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:23, Stephen Welch wrote: >> Hi Guido, >> >> On 13 July 2010 09:01, Guido van Rossum wrote: >>> Is there anyone who can give me hint on how to travel from London

Re: [EuroPython] Train from London Heathrow to Birmingham this Saturday

2010-07-13 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Terry Jones wrote: >> your quickest and cheapest option looks like it is the national express >> coach > > I highly recommend taking a coach too. It's so much easier. anyone else going up on saturday? what time? ___ Eu

Re: [EuroPython] Train from London Heathrow to Birmingham this Saturday

2010-07-13 Thread Terry Jones
> your quickest and cheapest option looks like it is the national express > coach I highly recommend taking a coach too. It's so much easier. Terry ___ EuroPython 2010 - Birmingham, 17-24 July 2010 - http://www.europython2010.eu EuroPython mailing list

Re: [EuroPython] Train from London Heathrow to Birmingham this Saturday

2010-07-13 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > Is there anyone who can give me hint on how to travel from London > Heathrow (terminal 5) to Birmingham? I'll be arriving there Saturday > around noon. your quickest and cheapest option looks like it is the national express coach: it tak

Re: [EuroPython] Train from London Heathrow to Birmingham this Saturday

2010-07-13 Thread Michael Sparks
On Tuesday 13 July 2010 09:01:10 Guido van Rossum wrote: > Is there anyone who can give me hint on how to travel from London > Heathrow (terminal 5) to Birmingham? I'll be arriving there Saturday > around noon. This is where traintimes.org.uk comes into its own: http://traintimes.org.uk/heathr

Re: [EuroPython] Train from London Heathrow to Birmingham this Saturday

2010-07-13 Thread Bhima van der Molen
;Guido van Rossum" Date: Tue, Jul 13, 2010 09:05 Subject: [EuroPython] Train from London Heathrow to Birmingham this Saturday To: "europython@python.org" Is there anyone who can give me hint on how to travel from London Heathrow (terminal 5) to Birmingham? I'll be arriving there Sa

Re: [EuroPython] Train from London Heathrow to Birmingham this Saturday

2010-07-13 Thread Timothy Baldock
One thing to note here, the Heathrow Connect service also runs from Heathrow T4/T123 to Paddington, but stops along the way. It takes about twice as long but costs less than half as much. They're every 30 minutes, and the transfer from T5 to T123 is free. Just a thought if you want to save some mon

Re: [EuroPython] Train from London Heathrow to Birmingham this Saturday

2010-07-13 Thread Nicholas Tollervey
Here's how I'd do it. Hop on the Heathrow Express -> Paddington Station. Circle or Hammersmith & City Tube lines from Paddington -> Euston Square Tube station. *Walk* from Euston Square Tube station to Euston rail station (5 mins well signposted). Euston -> Birmingham New Street station. (Vir

Re: [EuroPython] Train from London Heathrow to Birmingham this Saturday

2010-07-13 Thread Mary Mooney
The national rail web site suggested by Charlie will take you to a rail ticket purchasing site. As a general rule, trains from London to Snow Hill are slower but cheaper than those arriving at New Street. You can walk up and buy tickets on the day - but they are usually horrendously expensive. Y

Re: [EuroPython] Train from London Heathrow to Birmingham this Saturday

2010-07-13 Thread Charlie Clark
Am 13.07.2010, 10:01 Uhr, schrieb Guido van Rossum : From the map at http://www.europython.eu/about/maps/ it looks like the value of Z is Snow Hill Rail? Walking to the hotel seems no problem. Hi Guido, Snow Hill might be the closest station but Birmingham New Street is the main station in

[EuroPython] Train from London Heathrow to Birmingham this Saturday

2010-07-13 Thread Guido van Rossum
Is there anyone who can give me hint on how to travel from London Heathrow (terminal 5) to Birmingham? I'll be arriving there Saturday around noon. I tend to travel pretty casual so if it's as easy as "catch the Heathrow express to X, then the underground to Y, then there are trains to Birmingham