"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 10:27:29 on Sun, 22 May
2011, Clive Page remarked:

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.

The change they made was moving the Thameslink station. It's as far south
as it could be now, given the curvature of the tunnels. The whole thing's
a mess, frankly. Perhaps the entrance to the new Thameslink station could
have been close by the Eurostar check-in, rather than halfway to Camden.

Then you'd have 'end fed' 12 car platforms, with all the resultant
congestion - and ensuing failure to spread passengers along the whole train.
There seem to be valid reasons for the position of the main Thameslink
entrance.

Paul S