"Jack Taylor" wrote in message
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Presumably this is an interim solution - or have long-term plans to extend
the platforms across the existing concourse and relocate the concourse
area been abandoned?

Difficult to pin down what they intend now, isn't it.

I can find references to closing platforms 1 and 2 to allow 3 and 4 to be
lengthened, and taking over the international terminal with all existing
platform allocations being 'moved over by two' to compensate.

But I also found an annual NR report that reckons they can extend 1 and 2 to
ten car 'in situ', without any problems. However there are other platforms
in the middle of the station that also need lengthening eventually.

There are some references to the 'Waterloo Buffer Stop project' although
I've never found a description of it. (Anyone else got any idea?)

There is also the distinct possibility that extending any platforms over the
concourse is long abandoned, because it predates Eurostar's decision to
withdraw from the station completely. It first came to the fore in the days
of the SRA and long franchise extensions - so it might be history by now.

Paul S