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Old 26th May 2010, 20:09
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ExXB
 
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Have any of you considered eschewing air travel altogether and using trains for travel between the UK and European destinations?
Oh what a good idea. Let's see Geneva to London:

Genève We, 26.05.10 dep 07:17 TGV 6564 Paris-Gare-de-Lyon arr 10:51

Paris-Gare-de-Lyon walk 15 min., Paris-Gare-de-Lyon RER

Paris-Gare-de-Lyon RER dep 11:26 S 29814 Paris-Nord RER arr 11:33

Paris-Nord RER transfer 40 min. Paris-Nord Eurostar

Paris-Nord Eurostar dep 12:13 EST 9027 Eurostar London St. Pancras ES arr 13:28

Duration: 7:11;

Neither the SBB/CFF or SNCF websites would quote me a price but it's likely to be sum of sector fares GVA-PAR-PAR-LON. The railroads don't know how to interline, do they.

Now Geneva airport (6 minutes by train from city centre) to London City

07:30 GVA - 08:10 LCY -- CHF 247 (all in)
plus 10 pounds for an oyster card

London City Airport DLR Station
Take Docklands Light Railway towards Bank DLR Station
Average journey time: 25 mins

Bank Underground Station
Take the Northern Line towards High Barnet
or Northern Line towards Mill Hill East
or Northern Line towards Edgware Average journey time: 9 mins

Walk to King's Cross and St Pancras Transfer time: 9 mins

Duration (aprox) 2.5 hours

Last edited by ExXB; 26th May 2010 at 20:24. Reason: I forgot to add the counterfactual ...
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