On Feb 7, 10:47*pm, Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at 20:46:54 on
Mon, 7 Feb 2011, Richard J. remarked:

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.

That's not what he said; he just said it was *linked* to SPI, which I
took to mean that it was in KX but linked to SPI. Since it's going to
be directly under the new main entrance to King's Cross, I think your
feeling will be short-lived.

You will always be able to get there from St Pancras without even seeing
the main building of Kings Cross. If you use the northern most
escalators by the Kent Lines escalators, then it "feels" very much like
an underground ticket office *for* St Pancras.

Which reminds me, do the Kent platforms have Oyster (for trips to/from
Stratford perhaps).

No. Oyster PAYG is not valid for travel on Southeastern Highspeed
whatsoever, nor do Travelcards have any validity on SE Highspeed
either (to be crystal clear, this exclusion applies within the London
zones too - SE Highspeed is a little bit like Heathrow Express in that
respect, in that it sits outside the zonal ticketing system).

I suppose one could envisage some sort of premium fare arrangement for
Oyster PAYG users between St P and Stratford, but such a thing might
be more hassle than its worth - however well the premium fare element
might be flagged up, people wouldn't pay heed to such warnings and
would just assume that it was charged as per a normal NR or LU
journey. (I spose one could argue it should be - the danger is that
it'd get deluged by short hop pax.)