what is the best way to get from gatwick to York? please tell me in 1st grade language as i've never been before. thanks!!

<BR>Dear Ms Michaels,<BR><BR>Gatwick airport has its own railway station. You buy a ticket there to York. You wheel your luggage cart to the top of the lift, and go down to the Thameslink train to Kings Cross Thameslink station: trains run every fifteen minutes and take 40 minutes. At Kings Cross Thameslink station you seek help from any passing young man, and haul your luggage up to street level. You leave the station, and at once, to the left, there are luggage trolleys. You use a pound coin to release one (people can show you how), load up, and walk 150 yards along the street to Kings Cross main line station. When you are inside you look at the platforms: the reason they seem familiar is that platform 9 1/2 is the platform for Hogwarts school. On every hour and every half hour a train with a restaurant car or buffet car leaves for York: it takes two hours or less. At York station you leave the train, look up to admire the curve of the roof, again beg help from a stalwart lad, and go to the front of the station. There taxis stand ready to carry you away.<BR><BR>Please write if I can help further. Welcome to England.<BR><BR>Ben Haines, London<BR><BR>

I'm intrigued...what's in York? Is it worth a day trip from London?

me..you should do a search on York-it is one of the most talked about towns in England to visit on this forum...there are so many posts on how amazing it is.

Do some research! York is one of the most glorious cities in Europe so it is easy to find information. If you have not heard of York perhaps you need to study up a bit more before you travel.

Ben, <BR><BR>A thorough reply, but you needn't disguise the number of the Platform to Hogwarts, as so many people know about it now. Fortunately, they don't try to enter it. That would be Platform 9 3/4, rather than 9 1/2.

topping for Michele who asked her<BR>question a second time

topping for michele again<BR>

thank you for the replies.. for the person who asked why i'm going to york..i'm actually going a bit north of york to pickering. where my sister lives. reason i needed to know how to get there. thanks everyone!!

Doing York as a day trip from London is not very feasible. There is lots to see there and you cannot do it justice in a day. Travelling there for business from London in first class is bad enough - I would never consider it in economy on the train.