Paddington Station

Paddington has been my main station in and out of London for the past couple of years for a number of reasons - we use it at least once a month to visit my husband's family in Bristol, and I often find myself running to catch the Heathrow Express when flying out of LHR. Prior to that, when I was in law school and my husband was already working in London, I took the train back and forth from Oxford every weekend. Paddington is an unavoidable fact of my life, but it could be much worse. As anyone who has tried to catch a westward bound train out of the Big Smoke on a Friday afternoon can attest to, Paddington can become the scene of nightmares. Pushing your way ...  Read the complete review

Nearly every Friday night for the past four months I have found myself sitting at Paddington station, waiting patiently for peak hours to end so that I can visit my family. During this time I feel that I have gotten to know Paddington Station a lot better than i would like to. So, it seemed fitting that I write a review on the station that is fast becoming my home away from home (slight exageration but two hours in Paddington does seem longer than two hours anywhere else). -Tickets and Travel- There are a number of ways to buy your tickets. You can order them online and have them delivered to you which is by far the easiest way to avoid the long queues. ...  Read the complete review

This year, I have had to go into London for various reasons on several occasions which is quite unusual, and because I live in South Wales, I have to go via Paddington Station. This review details my experience with waiting around in the station in between trains and also my experiences with actually moving through the station itself. Getting off the train in paddington, the first thing one notices is the rather large area that the station covers, and particularly the old "Victorian Train Shed" style roof, which is in itself quite a spectacle. Paddington is an impressive station, and it's size seems to allow for when it gets busy. Ticket ...  Read the complete review

Paddington Station is located to the west of central London in W2. The original station was built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in the 1840’s though the current station is nothing like the original having being enlarged throughout 2 centuries of use. Paddington was home to the Great Western Railway (GWR) or as it was commonly called by its devoted fans – ‘Gods Wonderful Railway’. The GWR existed from 1835 up until the railway nationalisation in 1951. The name has been revived in the form of one of the companies running services out of the station – ‘First Great Western’ – who will always be associated with the ...  Read the complete review