John Rowland wrote:
"Dave Arquati" wrote in message
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If the Olympic bid is successful, no Eurostars would
stop at Stratford for the duration of the Olympics,
to create capacity for the "Javelin" St Pancras - Stratford
Ebbsfleet shuttle to run (with cross-platform interchange
to Eurostar at Ebbsfleet).

Cross-platform via passport check and sniffing dog.

Of course. (I was wondering how they would achieve that cross-platform
change; it's mentioned in the Olympic bid document.)

How infeasible (read: costly) would it be to build
an underground travelator link between Euston
Station (with access from the mainline and the
Underground) to St Pancras International (also
linking with King's Cross and King's Cross / St
Pancras Underground)?

Would it be possible for the travelator to go at roughly
the same depth, but parallel to the Metropolitan line?

On the northern side of the Met, I think that would
foul the new Western ticket office at King's Cross.

Surely rather than "foul it", it would emerge into one side of it, which is
probably pretty much what you want.

Anyway, isn't there a never-used twin-track branch of the Thameslink tunnel
stretching to Euston along the north side of the Met? Although a bit was
destroyed by the widening of the Met in the 1930s and another bit destroyed
by the new ticket hall, isn't the rest of it just what is needed?

I had no idea such a tunnel existed.

the Maiden Lane Curve.

Do you mean the York Road curve?

That too. Maiden Lane is the counterpart of the York Road one, but for
the other direction (Great Northern to westbound subsurface).

Actually none of those curves matter if the travelator link only extends
to the Western ticket office.

I agree it might be somewhat bizarre to go
all the way down an escalator only to have
to pretty much immediately go up another one ;-)

It beats walking, though.

Not if it's slower than walking! (Would you take the bus from Bond St to
Oxford Circus?)

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Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London