On May 22, 2:40*pm, "Peter Masson" wrote:
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... On Tue, 22 May 2012 12:57:37 +0100
Basil Jet wrote:
If there is that much need to relieve Waterloo, why are the Eurostar
platforms sitting there gathering dust? AFAIK the approaches to Waterloo

Good question. Idiot politics no doubt. They could have been switched to
local trains the day after eurostar moved out.

Not the day after. The platforms would have had to be raised. And I suspect
that passengers would have been infuriated at the tortuous route between the
concourse and those platforms.

Thanks Peter, I had forgotten about the platform height. I still have
to believe that putting the Windsor line services back on their own
side of the station would be a good thing.