For one traveler the Elizabeth line is cheaper by £11.40. That does not change up to 8 travelers.
The Heathrow Express is quicker: 15 min against 40 min. The Elizabeth line varies between 40 and 45 minutes.
Elizabeth line: 05:21–00:12. Heathrow Express: hours not recorded.
Priced against each other
Whole-party totals · adult fares
What each costs for the whole party, in GBP. The cheaper of the two is marked on every row.
Travelers
Elizabeth line
Heathrow Express
Difference
1
£14.60
£26
£11.40
2
£29.20
£52
£22.80
3
£43.80
£78
£34.20
4
£58.40
£104
£45.60
5
£73
£130
£57
6
£87.60
£156
£68.40
7
£102.20
£182
£79.80
8
£116.80
£208
£91.20
Side by side
Where each one leaves you
Elizabeth · Transport for LondonElizabeth line
From
Rail stations at Terminals 2 & 3, Terminal 4 and Terminal 5
To
Paddington, continuing through Bond Street, Tottenham Court Road and Liverpool Street
Luggage
Racks at the ends of the carriages; the trains are built for it.
Runs
05:21–00:12
Journey
40–45 min
It is the weakest value of the three on time alone: 2.5 times the Underground fare to save about ten minutes. It is also the option the airport promotes hardest.
The airport quotes this journey at "£13.90" on its own page. TfL, which sets the fare, charges £14.60 to Paddington and £15.50 beyond.
The airport states the journey as "under 40 minutes" on one page and "under 45 minutes" on another.
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.
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