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[email protected] · February 7th 11, 11:25 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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(Mizter T) wrote:

On Feb 7, 10:53*pm, Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at 21:37:37
on Mon, 7 Feb 2011, Paul Corfield remarked:

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.

I do have to object to this somewhat, as the western ticket hall is
much more within the rectangular footprint of St Pancras (which I
would also think the general public understood to go all the way to
the main road) than it is anywhere near Kings Cross.

The northern ticket hall will be within the KX footprint once it's all
finished, there's no doubt about that.

I'd agree with the broad notion that the Western (SSL, Met/Circle)
ticket hall is kinda in/under St Pancras station, situated as it is in
the old undercroft, but that doesn't mean the Underground station is
named simply 'St Pancras'.

I note your pick-up location is "St Pancras (National Rail)" - where
'National Rail' is specified in the name of the location, then that
means it's the NR gateline as opposed to the LU one.

I don't think the different LUL gatelines are distinguished for the
purpose of picking up credit. When I had to pick up some credit at the
Cross recently they told me it didn't matter where I entered the tube. I
have a feeling that in the end I exited there rather than entering but
still got my credit.

[Found my email now}

*Date:* Tue, 7 Dec 2010

I´ve processed a refund of £0.45 for you at Kings Cross underground
station, it will load at any underground entrance you use there,
from 30 November-7 December. Just touch in and make a journey as
normal; the money will automatically go onto your card as you make a
journey and pass through the ticket-gates.

I realised today that I didn't enter the tube at King's Cross last night
as expected. The disrupted East Coast timetables led to a later arrival
and I decided to use my bus pass to get to Putney rather than the tube.

However, I was pleased to find that the credit seemed, somewhat to my
relief, to be applied to my Oyster card when I exited at King's Cross St
Pancras this afternoon.

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Colin Rosenstiel