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Looks like the standard London Underground fixed link to me.
 
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Yes, the XR journey time for PAD to SRA will be c.30 mins when the big day comes so this is the normal LUL connection. For some reaon, it's not admitting that you have to change at least once (LST or Mile End)...
 

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Yes, the XR journey time for PAD to SRA will be c.30 mins when the big day comes so this is the normal LUL connection. For some reaon, it's not admitting that you have to change at least once (LST or Mile End)...
The reason is that fixed links have no concept of whether you may need to change or not, and never have. They are just the representative journey time from A to B. There is nothing different here from how it’s always been.
 

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Which is a shame, because it sometimes stops the rail planner finding the route with the least actual changes unless it is forced to. For example Letchworth to Salisbury if you take the planners suggested route then you have to use two tube trains, but if you stay on the train until london bridge you can do it with a single tube train.
 

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It's also a shame in that it only knows the Underground routes in the rail timetable data. For Maidenhead-Stratford, the quickest route may be to change at Ealing Broadway onto the Central Line, but NRE doesn't know you can do that. TfL do, even if they can't predict what will still be running in December.
 

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For Maidenhead-Stratford, the quickest route may be to change at Ealing Broadway onto the Central Line

An old short cut, going back decades, is that if you want a Central Line destination, take the short walk from Paddington to Lancaster Gate. Central Line from Ealing has numerous stops and takes ages.
 

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An old short cut, going back decades, is that if you want a Central Line destination, take the short walk from Paddington to Lancaster Gate.

This. It's a very useful if somewhat secret interchange. One that goes back almost twelve decades, given that Lancaster Gate station on the (then) Central London Railway opened in 1900!

The distance is around half a mile. Furthermore Lancaster Gate can be used for cross-London tube transfers with a rail ticket marked with a "+" symbol.
 

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An old short cut, going back decades, is that if you want a Central Line destination, take the short walk from Paddington to Lancaster Gate.
It's also a registered OSI so Oyster/contactless journeys are joined together.
 
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