John B wrote:

Email just received from TfL:

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Dear Mr Band,

From Sunday 28 May 2006 a number of changes need to be made to walking
routes and interchanges between the Tube, King's Cross and St. Pancras
mainline stations, to assist the redevelopment of King's Cross St.
Pancras Underground station.

The existing access to the Metropolitan, Circle, Hammersmith & City
lines will close.

Access to the Underground from St. Pancras and King's Cross platforms
9, 10 and 11 will be via the new ticket hall entrance located on
Pancras Road. You will need to walk southbound down the right hand side
of Pancras Road into the Underground.

The temporary ticket office on King's Cross station forecourt will
close and the new ticket office in the Underground will open.

A new entrance to the Underground on the forecourt of King's Cross will
open and the entrance by the Great Northern Hotel will close.

Please look out for directional signs to help you while these changes
are implemented.

Yours sincerely,

Peter Tollington

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Presumably the current SSL platform access will re-open once they've
tarted it up a bit and improved the interchange with the current Tube
ticket hall?


No, the new "Western" ticket hall, referred to by Peter Tollington, the line
manager for the Circle line, will replace the existing access. Eventually
there will be an interchange passage between the "tube" and "subsurface"
platforms without the need to pass through the ticket gates, one of the
last, achievable, recommendations of the Cullen report following the Kings
Cross fire.