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[email protected] · August 9th 17, 03:08 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at 13:07:05 on Wed, 9 Aug
2017, Basil Jet remarked:

They've moved the buffer stops by 50m, so there will still be room
for 2x8 car trains.

They've moved the trains 50 metres further from the tubes / buses /
taxis? Why?

DfT's keep-fit fanatic has moved his attention to Waterloo, given his
huge success at St Pancras and Kings Cross.

Given we had to walk from KGX platform 0 to St Pancras Eurostar departures
in the rain, having to register a railcard on an Oyster card on the way, our
walking distance was surprisingly short and entirely dry.

Just took two attempts at the card registration. Not only does the old main
Kings Cross St Pancras Underground ticket hall with its huge bank of
machines only have one person supporting it but he didn't have his requisite
card to log in to do the registration. So he sent us to the Western ticket
hall, not a problem today as it's on the way to Eurostar in the dry. There
were four staff there, even though it has fewer machines, one of whom was
able to do the registration quickly enough.

It also helped that we took the 1417 from Cambridge, at least half an hour
earlier than necessary and it arrived an unprecedented 5 1/4 minutes early.

So here we are waiting for our train, having got through security & passport
control more than an hour before our train departure.

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Colin Rosenstiel