Day 287 The No 423 from Hounslow to Heathrow terminal 5.

 I took the 1100 train to Clapham Junction and then changed to platform 5 for a train to Hounslow. It was just insufficient time to get from platform 14 to platform 5 so I had twenty eight minutes to wait for the next train which was the 1202 to Weybridge via Staines. This train arrived at 1230 and I then needed to walk to the High Street to catch the No 423, one of which departed just as I was arriving at the first bu sstop. It is a twenty minute interval service so it was 1309 before I was aboard RATP now First 45251.

Twenty minute interval service

One of many buses available here
at school Lane

The bus initially took the pedestrianised part of the High Street as far as Douglas Road but then curved around to join the Hanworth Road arriving at The Bell Hounslow at 1317.

Initial pedestrianised section ahead

Alongside the A315 at Midsummer Park

Following the No 237 at The Bell

 From here the bus took the A315 past Midsummer park accompanied by a number of other routes and turned right opposite Hounslow Heath Nature reserve up Barrack Road. We then went right along Corporation Lane and then two lefts in succession which meant the bus route was finally on its own as it went past the Barracks. 

Hounslow Barracks

Having passed the south side of the barracks the bus continued until it reached the junction with Lichfield Road where drivers were exchanged between 1329 and1331. Taking Salisbury Road right we passed Green LaneSports Centre.

Green Lane Sports Centre

Turning left so as to cross the
A30 to Hatton Cross station

On reaching Faggs Lane the bus turned right and then almost immediately left along the A30 toward Hatton Cross. Approaching Hatton Cross we had to go left to follow a loop around to access Hatton Cross Underground station by crossing the A30 at right angles. From here at 1344 we followed around the east and north of Heathrow airport deviating left once we reached the A4.

Passing the Three Magpies on the A4 

 The A4 was taken up to where it became the Colnbrook Bypass where we took the left fork past the Premier Inn to Longford village.

Having passed The Thisle and Premier Inn on way 
to Longford we passed through this bus gate

We were with other TFL bus routes from joining the A30 but we swapped these for First Berkshire bus routes after leaving Longford onto the A3044 and then into Terminal 5 where we terminated at 1400.

 

Arrival in the bus station at LHR Terminal Five

To return home I took the Piccadilly line to Barons Court and then the District line from there to West Brompton changing at Earls Court. The London Overground then conveyed me next to Clapham Junction where I caught a train home at 1546.