On Nov 1, 8:55*pm, Paul Corfield wrote:

On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 12:26:01 -0700 (PDT), Mizter T
wrote:

I'm curious as to why the LU ticket windows and ticket machines at
Victoria (in their temporary home on the forecourt of the station)
were closed this past weekend? Passing through the tube station I
heard a PA announcement about how pax could buy tickets at the far end
of their journey, and then later saw the closure flagged on the
results of a journey planner query.

As far as I could see from a quick glance there wasn't any obvious
physical reason for them to be closed (e.g. obstruction etc), so my
guess would be that the power supply (and/or comms) was cut off for
some reason as a result of the works going on at the station - but I'd
be interested to know the actual explanation for it.

I thought it was to allow a move of all of the machines to the
reconstructed ticket office downstairs. I haven't been through Victoria
today so can't confirm if there is a new office in place or not. It was
a planned closure not some emergency problem.

Oh OK, that would make sense - I just passed straight through the tube
ticket hall where such work may have been evident (though it may not
have been). I can't remember but suspect the shutters were down in
front of the ticket machines, or at least the holes that they had been
inhabiting. The text on journey planner made clear it was a planned
closure for the whole weekend, it was just a little unusual that's all.