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Talk to me like I'm an idiot please - then I will understand.
If I get off a train at Liverpool St Station how do I get to all the good shops in london? I would like to walk if I could - if its within good distance - but what direction - ish or what train would I get on? Do I need to leave the station and head to an underground or can I stay in liverpool st?
Also how would I get to the London Palladium on Argyll Street, again from Liverpool St station?
I have no idea where to start! I want to explore London a bit but need some sort of direction I guess or else Im going to be totally bewildered and get mega mega lost.
Any general/specific help/advice would be mosssssstttt highly appreciated.
Cheers :thumb:
If I get off a train at Liverpool St Station how do I get to all the good shops in london? I would like to walk if I could - if its within good distance - but what direction - ish or what train would I get on? Do I need to leave the station and head to an underground or can I stay in liverpool st?
Also how would I get to the London Palladium on Argyll Street, again from Liverpool St station?
I have no idea where to start! I want to explore London a bit but need some sort of direction I guess or else Im going to be totally bewildered and get mega mega lost.
Any general/specific help/advice would be mosssssstttt highly appreciated.
Cheers :thumb:
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Then take the north bound picadilly line 3 stops to holborn, where you can jump onto the central line again, but this time heading east, towards liverpool street.
Watch out, because at weekends they like to do random higgory jiggory work with the tube, the attendants are usually quite helpful and wil be able to direct you of alternative routes or stops.
Shops depends on what you want to buy but seeing as your a london virgin i would imagine that top shop at oxford circus has plenty to keep you entertained
STOP! I said idiots talk please. So do I stay in L-pool St Station and just look for a train with "Tottenham court road" on. What does west bound central line mean?
So I get off the above train and exit the station, and walk along that street, past shops. PAST the oxford tube enterance (not going in) and then there are more shops?
So after I've been in these shops I go to which tube/station? Where is that from the end of the street of shops? I stay on the train while it goes past three stops and get off at a stop called Holborn. Then I get another train, from the station I get off at Holborn on a train saying Liverpool St?
No worries, I'm going on a Wednesday not a weekend!
SO, I'm going on one train from L-P St to the shops, then two trains from the shops to L-P st? Can I not just go to the end of the shops, then turn round then go back the way I came, on the train in reverse?
Also roughly how much is it to travel on these trains? Just a rough idea 'cos I have absolutly no clue!!
That depends on a few things:
Singles are usually around £4, (unles they've gone up since then?) travelcards depend on what zones you go to. An Oyster card costs £3, but there's a cap of £5.10 per day.
The link I posted gives more information.
There are loads of lines on the tube. The central line is red and there's a few ways it can go.
Best thing probably to get an oyster card - which you can get from the ticket booths near the underground.
If you want to walk it ain't too bad - maybe an hour at most heading west -
best website for information about getting around by tube and train is tfl, which has been linked to. Absolutely the best site for walking around london is walkit.com - great way to find out how to get fom one place to another walking.
:yes: Definately. I love that website. I post it here often, lol!!!
Also if you walk anywhere along oxford street then there are central line stops all the way down it and you can hop on any one and get back to liverpool street really easily. I wouldn't bother walking down regents street to picadilly as except for liberty and possibly jager all the shops are a bit crap - your better off walking west down oxford street and going to selfridges.
No. There is no piccadilly line connection at Oxford Circus, its on the Central Line.
that sent me on a wild goose chase last time i used it. The guard who i eventually had to ask for directions was baffled
I actually find it really easy to get lost in london. I hear if youre used to the tubes they are great, but for an outsider they can be pretty complicated and scary. I hate using them
Really? I love the tube, I find it so simple to use, even easier than normal trains because the lines are colour coded! I've been to London twice and used the tube to get everywhere, as long as you carry round a tube map with you then you can't really go wrong! There's signs EVERYWHERE. I've got lots on the streets a few times, but its true that if you keep wandering around you'll stumble across a tube station soon enough!
If the line is down for engineering (which is actually pretty rare for the Central line afaik, it's usually the Circle line) then just ask one of the tube station employees who will help you. It might help you to print off a copy of a tube map and highlight all the ways to get to Tottenham Court Road/Oxford Circus just in case.
I've lived in London for years and I still go wrong on the tubes :yes:
I travel around quite a lot on the Tube and I am begining to learn where to get on the tube so I can be next to the exit at the station I want - perhaps I take my commuting a little too seriously.
I've done this since the first week I arrived in London. I hate messing around with crowds, so if I can be at the exit first, it saves me minutes on each journey.
I do that toooo - though where there is a choice of exits i will also choose the option of a carriage which is more likely to get me on a seat!
Of course, there are many variables to consider. I'm not massively proud of how competitive I get for a seat, but the rush hour does it to everyone. I do of course still offer it to the old and pregnant.
Also yesterday i didn't take a seat because i thought i saw someone pregnant getting on but it turns out she was just fat - i feel so gutted.
The trains are worse though since they decided to get new ones which have only about 6 seats - i will fight tooth and nail to get a spot in the baggage compartment which is the only place to sit! I am actually sad enough to know which trains have old and new carriages on them and wehre possible avoid the ones where i'm unlikely to get a seat.
The is she isnt she pregnant issue can be a nightmare, I know women who've been given seats and wondered if its because they looked like they had a fat stomach.
I dont do the trains, but I have got to know the time table of the tube, which tubes come from further away and therefore are fuller.
I've heard horror stories about trains, my old boss took the coach instead because he got so fed up with paying loads to stand.
It is potentially insulting, but it is a seat.
Then he started shouting at her and swearing about how she dared consider him too old and things like that.
I actually think most londoners must be total selfish cunts. I think they should put a warning on the london underground stating this
The rush hour certainly can get a bit cut throat I'll admit that, but we're not all bad, I always help women with prams up and down stairs.
Strange, people are usually very accommodating, when I've been on the tube.
Same here. I also help people with heavy luggage and ask people if they need help if they look a bit lost.