On 22/05/2011 08:50, Walter Briscoe wrote:
I think JP is unduly pessimistic in advising 13 minutes between KXX
Piccadilly and STP. I believe it nearer 5 - particularly if you leave
from carriage 2, door 2 which is nearest the Northern Ticket Hall.

I agree that 13 minutes is too generous but I interchange frequently
between Thameslink and Piccadily Lines at St Pancras and my experience
is that the old western route is faster than the one via the Northern
Ticket Hall, probably by 1 to 1.5 minutes; on the other hand the
Northern Ticket Hall route is less congested because because it's
somewhat tucked away. To save most time on the Western route you need
to be in the last carriage of the northbound Picc line train.

If you walk fast, and walk up/down all three escalators, you can do the
interchange in about 7 minutes; to do it faster than that would involve
running, and with all the gormless Eurostar passengers infesting the
shopping arcade usually known as St.Pancras this would be very tricky.

Changing from the Circle line station to Thameslink can be done in about
5 minutes in my experience, but if you are coming on the circle line
from the east it's certainly much faster to change at Farringdon (but
one of the staircases there is out of use at present making it take
longer than it used to).

That's the price of progress, of course: before they plonked the
shopping centre in St.Pancras you could easily change from Picc line to
Thameslink in under 3 minutes using the now abandoned station.

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