How to get from St. Pancres to Waterloo??
Mar 13th, 2008, 03:10 PM
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How to get from St. Pancres to Waterloo??
I have a friend coming in from France who doesn't speak English very well. She'll need to take the train from Waterloo out to meet me in Basingstoke.........what would be the easiest way for her to transfer from St. P. to Waterloo with her luggage? Or is it going to be me coming into London to escort her?
Mar 13th, 2008, 03:24 PM
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I would strongly recommend a taxi (about £10).
There's no direct tube line (one of thge reasons for Eurostar quitting Waterloo was that's it's a difficult station for most people to get to). Every change I can think of involves steps. And there's an AWFUL queue for tube tickets at the tube entrance right after immigration when a Eurostar arrives.
There's no direct tube line (one of thge reasons for Eurostar quitting Waterloo was that's it's a difficult station for most people to get to). Every change I can think of involves steps. And there's an AWFUL queue for tube tickets at the tube entrance right after immigration when a Eurostar arrives.
Mar 14th, 2008, 05:30 AM
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For the sake of completeness, there is a direct bus (59), but that involves crossing Euston Road to get on it and Waterloo Road when you get off it. For someone with luggage and not a lot of knowledge or confidence in English, the taxi fare is worth the extra convenience - it will stop a lot nearer the train at Waterloo as well.
Here's a map of where everything is at Waterloo:
http://tinyurl.com/39ejqg
I would think it's possible to buy tickets to Basingstoke from the machines outside the ticket office.
Here's a map of where everything is at Waterloo:
http://tinyurl.com/39ejqg
I would think it's possible to buy tickets to Basingstoke from the machines outside the ticket office.
Mar 14th, 2008, 05:50 AM
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"one of thge reasons for Eurostar quitting Waterloo was that's it's a difficult station for most people to get to"
One of the EXCUSES, not reasons. And a rubbish excuse. Four Tube lines take you to Waterloo. Moreover, once you arrived by Tube there was a nice set of dedicated escalators to take you right to the Eurostar area. Unlike St. Pancras, you didn't have to climb stairs and then fight through the impatient, irritable commuter hordes to get to the Eurostar check-in area. And first-time Eurostar travelers weren't dependent on unhelpful or just plain invisible signs to figure out which way to go.
One of the EXCUSES, not reasons. And a rubbish excuse. Four Tube lines take you to Waterloo. Moreover, once you arrived by Tube there was a nice set of dedicated escalators to take you right to the Eurostar area. Unlike St. Pancras, you didn't have to climb stairs and then fight through the impatient, irritable commuter hordes to get to the Eurostar check-in area. And first-time Eurostar travelers weren't dependent on unhelpful or just plain invisible signs to figure out which way to go.
Mar 14th, 2008, 06:44 AM
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By coincidence I did exactly this journey yesterday, the reverse last weekend. Clearly the easiest option is a taxi, but also the most expensive. The best public transport option is, as PatrickLondon says the 59 bus. They leave from stops on the opposite side of Euston Road which is the main road outside the entrance to St Pancras station. Every 12-15 minutes, flat fare £2, buy from machine before boarding. The Tube journey is a shambles, I wouldn't bother.
Mar 14th, 2008, 01:16 PM
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Forgive me, but what bit of "Taxis this way" can your friend not read. And what part of "Waterloo, please" can she not say?
When I was 14, doing my first French exchange, my French oppo (slightly younger than me, but with truly diabolic English) found no problem at all in getting off the bus from Lympne at Victoria, hailing a taxi and getting to Euston.
Can standards in French education really have slipped that badly in the past 40-odd years?
When I was 14, doing my first French exchange, my French oppo (slightly younger than me, but with truly diabolic English) found no problem at all in getting off the bus from Lympne at Victoria, hailing a taxi and getting to Euston.
Can standards in French education really have slipped that badly in the past 40-odd years?
Mar 14th, 2008, 02:48 PM
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I got into a spirited discussion of the station the Londoners and many others know as St. Pancras.
This bloke kept thinking the correct name was St. Pancreas.
Then we had to convince that an Irish insurance agency called Royal Liver Insurance had nothing to do with the pancreas and food digestion.
Not sure we succeeded.
This bloke kept thinking the correct name was St. Pancreas.
Then we had to convince that an Irish insurance agency called Royal Liver Insurance had nothing to do with the pancreas and food digestion.
Not sure we succeeded.
Mar 14th, 2008, 11:21 PM
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Royal Liver (pronounced 'lie-ver') Insurance an "Irish agency"?
Never, never, never, never.
The proud symbol of the world's greatest city. Named after our civic bird, its head office our civic icon (the inspiration for Shanghai's Bund) and crowned by a statue of that civic bird (which, legend has it, will fly away if ever a 20 year old virgin passes it. It's not moved in a century), Liverpool's Royal Liver Friendly Society has been insuring the lives of Liverpudlians for the past 160 years.
We may have the highest proportion of ethnic Irish of any city outside Ireland. But we are indubitably outside Ireland. And the liver bird's Liverpudlian, not Irish.
Never, never, never, never.
The proud symbol of the world's greatest city. Named after our civic bird, its head office our civic icon (the inspiration for Shanghai's Bund) and crowned by a statue of that civic bird (which, legend has it, will fly away if ever a 20 year old virgin passes it. It's not moved in a century), Liverpool's Royal Liver Friendly Society has been insuring the lives of Liverpudlians for the past 160 years.
We may have the highest proportion of ethnic Irish of any city outside Ireland. But we are indubitably outside Ireland. And the liver bird's Liverpudlian, not Irish.
Mar 15th, 2008, 06:58 AM
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A quick reply to Flanneruk....my friend is older, recently widowed and has never traveled by herself. It will be a first for her, and she is understandably hesitant. I KNOW she could manage it, but she isn't yet that confident in herself.
