In message , at
00:47:14 on Wed, 8 Sep 2004, eurostardriver
remarked:
Kentish Town or West Hampstead provide useful interchanges onto LUL,
but some clever person has decided Thameslink services will not call
at these stations between 07.30 and 09.30 to prevent overcrowding.
Doesn't make much sense to me as this means all passengers will be
forced into the Kings Cross/St Pancras area making the overcrowding
there 3 times worse.

Perhaps it's easier to control at KX? They can close the way into the
underground station (I've seen them do this by putting people at the top
of the stairs outside the GNER ticket office on the mainline concourse),
as well as by turning off the ticket barriers thus stopping people using
the down escalators.
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Roland Perry