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Guide to T5: Getting there

BY CAR

Terminal 5 is on the Western Perimeter road off Junction 14 of the M25. For travellers who use the M4, exit at junction 4b and follow the M25 south to Junction 14. In general, it may take a little longer to reach T5 than the other terminals, so travellers are advised to take this into account.

BY TRAIN

Four Heathrow Express trains an hour run from London Paddington to T5 with one stop at T1, 2 and 3 (total journey time is 19 minutes). Passengers taking the Heathrow Express to Terminal 4 must now change at T1, 2, 3 and wait for a shuttle link (every 15 minutes) to T4. Heathrow Connect (the stopping service from Paddington) will not serve T5, but will continue to call first at T1, 2, 3 before continuing to T4.

TO/FROM CENTRAL LONDON BY TUBE

T5 has its own underground station on the Piccadilly line in Zone 6. The station will have six platforms – two for the Heathrow Express, two for the Piccadilly line, and two which are built in advance of a potential link from Heathrow by rail to the west (see online news, March 6).

During normal hours, there are now six Piccadilly line trains an hour from central London to T5. These call en route at T1, 2, 3 (but not T4 as this terminal is being served separately). T4 also gets six trains an hour, while T1, 2, 3 has 12 an hour.
There are ten lifts (which can hold 50 people) at the station, which go straight to the departures level at the terminal.

BY BUS

Terminal 5’s bus and coach station is on the arrivals level, across the Interchange Plaza from the main terminal building. Operators will include National Express, which covers the whole country, Rail Air, which has services from T5 to Woking, Watford and Reading to connect with train services across the country, as well as Oxford Bus Company’s The Airline, with a journey time of around 80 minutes to T5 from Oxford. The Airline stopped its service to Terminal 4 from March 23, to travel to T5 instead.

Coach services will still go from the central bus station, which is next to the tube station for T1, 2, 3 (from T5, get the Heathrow Express free to T1, 2, 3). During the night, the N97 bus connects Heathrow to central London every 30 minutes.

National Express also operates Dot2Dot, a shuttle service between Heathrow (and Gatwick) and central London addresses for £25pp. It has recently extended its service to include Canary Wharf.

The shuttles use express bus lanes to avoid London traffic and each vehicle receives live traffic data to avoid disruption. At T5, the kiosk is the second desk on the right as you come out of arrivals. It’s worth noting that the T5 service is a direct service between the airport and central London and Canary Wharf (whereas services from T1, 2, 3 and 4 sometimes make stops at each terminal to pick up more customers).

For more information see oxfordbus.co.uk, nationalexpress.com, tfl.gov.uk, railair.com, terminal5.ba.com, dot2.com.

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