On Sat, 26 May 2012 02:07:31 -0700 (PDT), e27002
wrote:

On May 25, 9:39*pm, mark townend wrote:
On May 25, 9:18*pm, Jamie *Thompson wrote:





On May 25, 12:53*pm, Neil Williams
wrote:

Jamie *Thompson wrote:

...and I would hope that if they did decide to move the SSL platforms
in front of the NR station

They already are. *The entrance is just in the wrong place.

Not really. One end of them might well be, but if you put a tunnel in
it'd be so ridiculously overloaded it'd be nigh on unusable. Really
you need two passenger tunnels to the NR station, one on each end of
the SSL platforms to prevent overloading them (see: Crossrail design
principles).

Extending the platforms eastwards by the equivalent of 3-4 car lengths
would probably be enough to achieve this, and you could then wall up
the current western end of the platforms as you'd only need S8 lengths
and then use these as utility rooms or some such.

So a new subway entrance from Euston mainline concourse connecting to
the extended eastern end of the Met station and 'relief tunnels' at
least partway alongside the platforms with additional cross-passage
accesses to them. Perhaps the platforms could be widened instead to
achieve a similar capacity. Are the existing platforms not full S8
length and if so do they operate using some sort of SDO system?

It would probably mean a rebuild of Euston Square Station. But, it
really is an omission not to have a Circle Line Station connected to
Euston. It was also gross stupidity to rebuild Euston so far back
from Euston Road.

Look at a pre-1960s map. Euston station was rebuilt in the roughly the
same place.

When Euston Square (Gower Street) was built the
LNWR and Met. were competitors. They did not make interchange easy
for their passengers. Today, Euston needs better access. Compare the
number of Subway lines at Euston to the number serving Kings Cross/
Saint Pancras.

One subway under Euston Road and one under Pancras Road, n'est ce pas?