In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at
04:26:48 on Mon, 19 Oct 2015, remarked:
Helpfully they have also removed some
ticket machines in that ticket hall (those on the left of the
gateline). Why on earth have they done that?

Did they move them to the right of the gateline where the windows
used to be? This is what it looked like soon after opening:

http://www.perry.co.uk/images/stp-western-queue.jpg

With only two, or possibly three, machines; on the far right.

That picture is not clear to me

In the middle distance are four windows, each with a ?pink light
above them. There's a single queue using a classic blue-tape zigzag.

In the foreground running from right to left are two separate ad-hoc
queues for ticket machines (which are themselves just out of shot).

What I'm not sure about is whether there's a third machine just in
shot, with a group of ladies and a girl with a pigtail milling around
in front.

but I think there were more than 2 or 3 machines. I didn't get that
close to the machines.

Probably four, based on this photo I took yesterday:

http://www.perry.co.uk/images/stp-original-four.jpg

My recollection of the current configuration is also not clear, Roland.
If they have indeed moved all the machines to one side

http://www.perry.co.uk/images/stp-seven-gone.jpg

of the gateline that is
hardly convenient to people coming from King's Cross/Euston Road rather
than St Pancras who all now have to walk past the gateline to access any
ticket machines.

The machines they've move start right next to the gateline, so hardly
the mountainous molehill you suppose:

http://www.perry.co.uk/images/stp-eleven-new.jpg

(Sorry about fuzzy photos, I had to take them through a glass
partition)

As I was standing by the gateline (extreme left of your picture) and the
area was crowded with lengthy queues, the situation was nothing like as
clear as you seem to think. I was looking for a rack of tube maps, remember.

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Colin Rosenstiel