Heathrow ExpressorElizabeth line and Thameslink to Gatwick?

Heathrow Express · Heathrow ExpressHeathrow Express

From

Terminals 2 & 3 and Terminal 5; Terminal 4 by a free four-minute transfer train

To

London Paddington, and nowhere else

Luggage

Racks throughout; it is built as an airport train.

Journey

15–21 min

£26.00 against £5.90 on the Underground is 4.4 times the fare to save about 35 minutes — roughly £34 an hour, before you count what the cap would have saved you.

It does not count towards the daily cap. TfL states that Heathrow Express journeys "are not included in caps and Travelcards", so a same-day return is £52.00 and caps at nothing.

It goes to Paddington and nowhere else. If Paddington is not your destination, add a further journey and its fare to everything above.

Terminal 5 adds five or six minutes to the quoted fifteen — the operator says six, the airport says five.

The first departure from the airport is not stated here: the operator publishes the first train from Paddington at 04:34 Monday to Saturday and the last from Terminal 5 at 23:57, but does not publish a first departure from the airport itself.

Heathrow Express: price for every party size

Elizabeth→Thameslink · Transport for London and ThameslinkElizabeth line and Thameslink to Gatwick

From

Heathrow Terminals 2 & 3, Terminal 4 or Terminal 5 rail station; changing at Farringdon

To

Gatwick Airport station, in the South Terminal, beside the coach stops

Luggage

Racks at the ends of the Elizabeth line carriages; racks by the doors and overhead on Thameslink.

Runs

05:36–23:36

Journey

75–101 min

Change at Farringdon: TfL's planner allows as little as four minutes between the trains, so a missed change costs a quarter of an hour. The Thameslink leg is longer in the evening and at weekends, up to an hour.

The coach is cheaper (from £14.90) and quicker, but it runs on a timetable of its own and can sell out.

Elizabeth line and Thameslink to Gatwick: price for every party size