re the Woodman, can anyone help me about trains from London? Normally I'd go via Cambridge to Elsenham, but there are engineering works north of Stansted, and replacement buses. So I'm thinking of Finsbury Park, which I know well, and across to Tottenham Hale by tube or bike.
I know that many trains from there will be the Stansted Express service, but are these mixed with regular trains that actually do useful things such as carry bikes? Any of the airport, Stansted Mountfitchet or Bishops Stortford would be OK (probably in that order because of distance and avoiding the M11 roundabout).
If it does need to be the Stansted Express, I have a cunning plan, but my preferred Audax bike is a regular one. For that matter, are they used to people showing up at the airport station and just wandering out of the door?