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London By bus or train: Travelling from abroad, visitors will arrive at Victoria's train station, which serves the English channel ports, or its coach station, some hundred yards south down Buckingham Place Road or at Waterloo, whose international rail terminal serves Eurostar trains using the Channel Tunnel. If you arrive by train from elsewhere in Great Britain, you will reach one of London's numerous mainline stations, which are all connected directly with the city's underground network. By air: London has four international airports - Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Luton. All of them are less than an hour from the city centre. Heathrow: twelve miles west of the city. Here you have various possibilities to reach the city centre: the Picadilly underground line (takes about 50 min to the centre), either the smart, fast but expensive Heathrow Express rail - which connects the airport to Paddington station - or one of the two Airbus services. No. 1 runs south of Hyde Park to Victoria station, No. 2 follows a more northern line to terminate at King's Cross Station. After midnight you should take night bus No. 97. Gatwick: thirty miles south of the city, has a nonstop Express rail service from and to Victoria Train Station (journey time 30 min, runs every 15 min). Other trains operated by South Central, usually making two stops before Victoria, are slower but cheaper. Flightline buses depart for Victoria Coach Station from Gatwick's North and South terminals. Stansted: smaller airport, 34 miles northeast of the capital. It is served by Skytrain trains to Liverpool Street and Tottenham Hale, where you can connect with London's underground services. Flightline coaches also run a daily service. Luton: This is the smallest airport and the furthest away from London city. Minibuses link the airport and Luton Parkway station, from where trains run to King's Cross Thameslink. Bus No. 757 runs directly to Marble arch and Victoria (journey time about 85 min)
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