Getting to London on the Monday Morning

[Tartan_Glasto]

Hi all, 

There's a good deal on a train ticket from London Euston back to Glasgow on the Monday. The train leaves at 14:30 from London.

My question is, what time do you think I should aim to be at the London National Express coach queue on the Monday morning? Would getting there for about 8am leave me enough time (under as normal conditions as can be)? I've no idea how quick the London bound National Express queue goes down. I know that I'll then have to get from Victoria to Euston but that doesn't seem too bad.

Cheers!

[guypjfreak]

I wouldn't know tbh but if you don't want to miss it then just leave as early as you can I would have thought. 

[char90]

Leave as early as humanly possible. Last time I went it took us 6 hours to get back to London and it was horrendous! We set off later than 8am though. I then ended up on a train back to Manchester about 8:30pm, rough as old rope 

[pie_and_a_pint]

Personally I'd want to be on the first bus out. You might be in London four hours early. You might just make the train. It all depends on traffic, but with the price of trains these days I wouldn't risk leaving any later than sparrow fart.

[BlueDaze]

have you considered getting the train into London.?

It probably wont be cheap, but should take only a couple of hours.. out of Castle Cary (they run a shuttle out of the festival)

[Calvin Klein]

With NE it took us 6+ hours to get to London Victoria in 2013. And about 3 or 4 hours in 2014/2016.

[Tartan_Glasto]

I bought the ticket, was only £35 so no huge loss if I decide not to travel that way. You guys are making me think that it may not be worth the risk solely relying on that train!

18 hours ago, BlueDaze said:

have you considered getting the train into London.?

It probably wont be cheap, but should take only a couple of hours.. out of Castle Cary (they run a shuttle out of the festival)

I've not, didn't consider that. I'll look into it, cheers!

[PFMooncat]

I agree with the comments above. A couple of years ago I left the festival at 8am to London and my train from London home was 7pm. The plan was to get to London for about lunch, a few beers and all that then train home with plenty of time. I got to London about half six and nearly missed the train home getting from Victoria to Kings Cross. Horrific journey. Never again. Train from Castle Carey or maybe even Bristol if I were you 

 

[glasto-worker]

On 09/03/2017 at 7:24 PM, Tartan_Glasto said:

Hi all, 

There's a good deal on a train ticket from London Euston back to Glasgow on the Monday. The train leaves at 14:30 from London.

My question is, what time do you think I should aim to be at the London National Express coach queue on the Monday morning? Would getting there for about 8am leave me enough time (under as normal conditions as can be)? I've no idea how quick the London bound National Express queue goes down. I know that I'll then have to get from Victoria to Euston but that doesn't seem too bad.

Cheers!

its a gamble that I hope you win 

in the past I have been on a crew Coach and while I live in London one of my Team lives in Iceland { its a long story } so time factor is important to him as he has to get to Heathrow.

The crew coaches will start to leave at 6am and some years the trip back is easy but some years for reasons we never found out - there was a big delay - not getting out - that has never been a problem but closer to Stonehenge - now the coaches stay in touch so my driver called up the coach behind so they were able to avoid it but we were stuffed - the coach that was able to avoid it ' was back in London ' four hours us  before us.

its impossible to predict 

I would tend to agree with people that the train from Castle Cary would be your best bet although you have to be prepared to queue for the shuttle  as there will be lots of others who will have the same idea 

a short video of what its like { when they are going to the festival }

https://youtu.be/jVYhp00rzHo

[jo1980]

In 2014, we left on the coach at 11am Monday morning and didn't get back to London till after 9pm. As everyone above has said, leave as early as you possibly can.

[Kneale]

If you're going to get the train from Castle Cary to London then the cheap £16.50 Advance single tickets haven't gone on sale just quite yet.

[___S_o_m_a__]

I left early doors on the Monday and still haven't arrived. 

[guypjfreak]

1 hour ago, ___S_o_m_a__ said:

I left early doors on the Monday and still haven't arrived. 

Top of the range old son lol