"Martin Rich" wrote in message
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On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:29:23 +0000, Mrs Redboots
wrote:

Theo Markettos wrote to uk.transport.london on Wed, 17 Nov 2004:

What were platforms 20-24 used for before construction of the Eurostar
terminal? They looked forlorn and neglected the only time I remember
seeing
them in the late eighties. Was there a canopy that was demolished to
make
way for Eurostar?

Surely they were being built in the late 80s? Actually, I think they
were built earlier - early 80s - but the construction of the Channel
Tunnel was delayed so that they did sit mothballed for awhile.

They were certainly under construction during 1990-91 as I used
Waterloo regularly during that period and can remember the building
work going on.

From memory, so the details may be incorrect, before the Eurostar
terminal was built Waterloo had 21 platforms with something like
platforms 18-21 on the site of the current Eurostar platforms. Space
was found in the main part of the station to add two extra platforms.

For a year or two during the construction work at least two of the
platforms used by suburban trains to Wandsworth and points south-west
started some way from the concourse.

Martin
My recollection of visits to Waterloo in the late 1960s suggest that at
least part of the site of Waterloo International was carriage sidings, along
with the lift used for stock exchanges to the Waterloo and City.
Brian