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Martin Underwood · November 27th 06, 01:50 PM posted to uk.transport.london

pjcs wrote in message
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Phil Richards wrote in message
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Any idea who is responsible for the upkeep of this? Network Rail or
Lambeth Council?

Rob wrote:

Is this walkway fully open again? At one time (until maybe ten
years ago) you could walk at high level all the way from the
Eurostar end of Waterloo right to Charing Cross, with just a dip
under the tracks out of Charing Cross. Then they closed the section
from the far side of York Road through the Shell Building and
under the railway tracks: you had to come down to ground level at
Waterloo Road, walk along past the arches of the viaduct and then
climb back up a concrete spiral staircase near the Nelson Mandela
statue.

The last time I walked along, maybe a couple of months ago, it was
open from the station concourse, over York Road, through the Shell
building and over Belvedere Road, at which point you had to descend
to street level. The section that used to continue from there under
the railway line was a rather temporary structure, and has been gone
for 5 years or more. The original Hungerford footbridge to which it
led has now of course been replaced by the two new footbridges on
either side of the rail bridge.

Ah, at least they've re-opened part of the route then, as far as Belvedere
Road, to avoid you needing to walk along York Road and then turn left along
Concert Hall Appoach.

However even if you want to use the upstream bridge (which wouldn't involve
you crossing under the tracks, are you saying that you need to come down to
ground level, walk towards the river and then (presumably!) climb up again
to the level of the bridge? Is there an obstruction (eg a building) that
prevents the high-level walkway from continuing between Belvedere Road and
the upstream bridge. Multimap
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.c...le=5000&icon=x
shows a path, but I presume it's a ground level.