London Banter - View Single Post - Chaos likely when they close ticket windows at King's Cross St. Pancras

[email protected] · April 9th 15, 08:22 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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rg, (Recliner) wrote:

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Pity you didn't take any pictures of the ticket machine queues. How
long were they?

Short in the western hall. In the other two, it was hard to separate
the queues for the machines and the ticket office open window(s) as
they seemed to run into each other. Basically, the ticket halls were
almost full of queuing people, or their travelling companions waiting
for them. So I can't be sure how long the queues for the machines were.

It's usually fairly clear which sort of queue is which IME.

The ticket office queue snaked round the machines. I suppose that, had I
been trying to join one or other of the queues, I would have been able to
find the right one to join, but from where I was standing, it wasn't
obvious.

Things have got worse then, in the Main and Western ticket halls anyway. It
always used to be clear which queue was which.

I'm also unclear if the new visitor centre also sells Tube tickets.

Did you see staff hovering near ticket machines?

There were staff around, but I was concentrating more on finding somewhere
to stand where I could see the full length of the ticket office queue,
without getting in the way. As so much of the ticket hall floor space was
taken up by the snaking queue, it didn't leave much of a corridor for
people to get hurry past. As I hadn't planned this as a photography
expedition, I hadn't brought along a camera with a wide angle lens, and
was just using a pocket camera, so it was hard to find somewhere where I
could get the whole queue into view.

Been there, done that!

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Colin Rosenstiel