Heathrow transfers

**pineapple stu** · 25/06/2009, 4:40 PM

Anyone know how long you should allow to get from Terminal 1 to Terminal 5 in Heathrow?

I know there's trains every 15 minutes that take 3 minutes to travel between one and the other, but looking at booking flights which leave just over an hour between arrival time and departure time. Never had a problem with this changeover time before, but with the different terminal, am I pushing it?

Have booked a bag into luggage, but can change that if needs be.

**pete** · 25/06/2009, 4:45 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Anyone know how long you should allow to get from Terminal 1 to Terminal 5 in Heathrow?

I know its not exactly what you asked but it takes about an hour to (mainly) walk & get trains between Terminal 1 & 3 with no baggage collection. Not sure if you can work out connection to Terminal 5 from that...but make what you will of that...

**Newryrep** · 25/06/2009, 8:47 PM

An hour seems far too tight even if you have no baggage, if you do have baggage and you are in a hurry invariably yours will be the last bag and a train will just have left when you just arrive at the platform

**Dodge** · 25/06/2009, 9:03 PM

Presume you've seen this on heathrow's website

**pineapple stu** · 26/06/2009, 8:28 AM

I did, yeah. It's where I go the info on the trains from. Didn't see any overall info on transfers there though.

**pineapple stu** · 29/06/2009, 2:49 PM

Just in case anyone else is wondering (like Rovers fan), BA gates close 45 minutes before departure, and you have to go out and re-go through all that security nonsense, so there's not enough time. You'd want to have two hours between arriving and departure I'd say.