On Feb 7, 9:37*pm, Paul Corfield wrote:

On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 19:52:09 +0000, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 19:07:44 on
Mon, 7 Feb 2011, Paul Corfield remarked:

On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 16:53:51 +0000, Roland Perry
wrote:

I've got a mystery £6 "operational issue" credit, and a £5 top-up (so
that it activates online journey history) to pick up tomorrow. Will they
both leap aboard in one swipe?

No idea but I suspect it rather depends if they are both programmed for
the same gateline.

I did ask for the same gateline for both.

And where is St Pancras (National Rail) - is that any of the KX/StP tube
barriers, or only the ones at the western ticket hall?

I would imagine that it is actually the Thameslink gateline in St
Pancras itself.

The LU Kings Cross ticket halls are (or were) Tube (the old one we all
know and love), Western (over the Met / Circle lines)

which is in St Pancras

Oh dear. Why do I reply to Roland Perry? *It is not in St Pancras. It is
underneath the front undercroft. The boundary to St Pancras is very
clearly where the arches and very large doors are - at the western end
of the Western ticket hall..

I spend too much of my life having to look at lease plans of tube
stations showing property boundaries so I tend to know what I am
referring to.

and Northern (the new one linked to St Pancras Int).

which as you say feels a bit like it's in St Pancras, even if it's
actually the KX side of the road.

No I didn't. It is connected via escalators and a long corridor - as you
know better than most of us.

Oh and don't forget Pentonville Road.

Indeed. Which reminds me of the Oyster validators that used to be at the
end of the tunnel. I don't suppose you can pick things up from them?

There are no validators. They've gone. I deliberately checked the last
time I used the Pentonville Rd entrance and link tunnel.

Thanks for confirmation of that - they're raison d'être no longer
exists so it makes sense.

Out of curiosity, any idea how well patronised the Pentonville Rd exit
is these days since Thameslink went? I can see it is used of course,
just wondering how well used it is overall (the publicly available
entry/exit metrics just agglomorates all together) - though I guess it
acts as a rather useful pressure valve for the station complex at busy
times so isn't likely to be at threat of closure (perhaps I should
keep quiet lest I give certain people ideas!).

And a side question - in LU internal terminology do you use the term
'exit', 'entrance' or something else - or does it just vary depending
on the context and what colour the sky is that day?