Rail engineering works: 15 & 16 November

Due to planned engineering works, there will be no Heathrow Express or Elizabeth line train services to Heathrow on Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 November 2025.

 

Piccadilly line services from Central London will be running as normal, but these services will be much busier than normal.

 

Please allow for extra time when making journeys on public transport over the weekend.

 

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Banned and restricted items

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What not to take

Not permitted into the security restricted or on board an aircraft

Without prejudice to applicable safety rules, passengers are not permitted to carry the following articles into security areas and onboard the aircraft.

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Checklist for items allowed in hand luggage or in the hold

See below if you can carry items onboard an aircraft or you need to check it in. Some items will not be allowed at all.

 

Item Allowed in cabin
(on person or in hand luggage)
Allowed in hold
(checked in)
Bleach NO NO
Catapaults NO YES
Cigarette lighters YES (on person only) YES
Compressed gas NO NO
Corrosives NO NO
Creosote, quicklime, oiled paper NO NO
Crossbows NO YES
Darts NO YES
Diving equipment Check with your airline Check with your airline
E-cigarettes YES (hand luggage only) YES
Explosives ammunition, detonators and related equipment NO NO
Fishing rods YES YES
Firearms (including replicas) NO Check with your airline
Fireworks and pyrotechnics NO NO
Flammables (fire lighter, lighter fuel, paints, thinners) NO NO
Golf clubs NO YES
Harpoon or spear guns NO Check with your airline
Heavy bats and sticks (including baseball, softball and cricket bats) NO YES
Ignitable gas devices NO NO
Incapacitating sprays NO NO
Infectious substances (e.g.live virus materials) NO NO
Instruments containing magnets NO NO
Liquids and gels (toletries, perfumes etc) YES (with restrictions) YES
Magnetrons. Instruments containing mercury NO NO
Martial arts equipment (including knuckledusters, clubs, coshes, rice flails and nunchuks) NO YES
Non-safety matches NO NO
Oxidisers NO NO
Power banks and spare batteries YES (hand luggage only) YES
Poisons, arsenic, cyanide, weedkiller NO NO
Radioactive materials, acids, corrosives, alkalis, caustic soda NO NO
Safety matches YES (on person only) YES
Sharp items (including scissors with blades over six inches) NO YES
Smoke canisters and smoke cartridges. NO NO
Snooker, pool or billiard cue YES YES
Tennis racquetes YES YES
Toxic NO NO
Vehicle fuel system components which have contained fuel NO NO
Walking / hiking poles NO  YES
Wet-cell car batteries NO NO
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