Paddington National Rail Station

[Jules001]

I need to get to the above station, I will be travelling to the station on the Tube and changing at Baker Street, which is the best line to change onto - Bakerloo or Circle. It will be early on a weekday morning around 6.45 am. Many thanks

[mushroom25]

where will you be coming from?

[China Doll]

Depends where you're coming from but having done it recently I found the bakerloo line better. I usually take the circle or hammersmith (I think that's the pink one) and frankly I find them both a bit of a 'mare but I tend to go from Euston Sq so it's easier to get to than Bakerloo. Circle and Hammersmith seem to suffer from service disruptions everytime I use them but I could just be unlucky!

[snags]

''(I think that's the pink one)''

Pure luck you actually got to where you wanted to go... were you not swayed by the rather lovely purple hue of the Piccadilly line? It would've matched your gloves and handbag far better...

[sara3]

purple? it's dark blue!

[snags]

sara(h)... shut it... it looked 'purply' to me... ;-p

[China Doll]

Gosh... It's a good job you don't have to work with colours on a daily basis eh snags... ;oP

[sara3]

snagsh....... pah!

[Buenchico]

I'd opt for the Circle Line. The combination of Circle Line and Hammersmith & City Line trains (from the same platform) provide a more frequent service than you'll find on the Bakerloo Line. The journey's also fractionally quicker, because the Bakerloo Line goes via Marylebone.

Chris

[mushroom25]

from baker street, circle line or hammersmith line trains from platform 6 will take you to the suburban part of paddington station (which is at the extreme country end of the station) - which is fine if your destination is to the London side of Reading.
otherwise, change trains at Edgware Road - or, take the Bakerloo line.

[snags]

And before anyone mentions it, the Metroplitan line is 'aubergine'...

[sara3]

I would have to agree with you on that one, snagsh :o)

[Kakuro1]

Magenta!

[dzug]

As long as you already have a ticket for your train out of Paddington then I'd say the Hammersmith and City Line. It's actually less of a walk than from the Circle or Bakerloo lines as long as you access the mainline platforms from the footbridge. Added to which you can get to the train before the hordes are let in at the main barriers and get a seat - though at the time you are travelling that's probably not a worry

[jno]

they've recently reduced the number of services on the Circle/Hammersmith & City lines from 7 an hour to 6 - part of the improvements after the Circle was redesigned as a spiral. That can mean long waits. Bakerloo is rather more frequent. But the interchanges are more complicated, as dzug says.

If you know your arrival and departure times, though, you could put them in the Journey Planner panel on the right on this page and get more precise tube times:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/