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[email protected] · August 25th 10, 10:32 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland
Perry) wrote:

In message
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at 14:15:46 on Tue, 24 Aug 2010, MIG
remarked:
I would normally be wanting to take the City branch southbound, so
going via Euston is a long diversion.. and IIRC is a very long walk
inside the Euston passageways.

Actually it is cross platform interchange in that direction (SB
Victoria to SB Bank branch)

Indeed, because one starts southbound on the Victoria and cross-
platforms to southbound on the Northern in the opposite direction.
Probably quicker and certainly less tiring than the walk that one is
directed to take at Kings Cross.

But even if one was going the other way on the Northern, it's a fairly
short walk over a bridge at the western end of the Victoria/Northern
platforms at Euston; no need to go up the escalators and back.

Thanks both. I wonder what the long walk I'm remembering is -
perhaps Charing Cross Branch northbound to Victoria Line northbound.

That is a long walk, yes. The principle of adding the Victoria Line to
Euston was the cross-platform interchange with the Northern Line City
branch then the quieter one to which they wanted Victoria Line transfers
to be made. That was then, of course.

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Colin Rosenstiel