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Old June 12th 07, 06:14 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
Roland Perry Roland Perry is offline
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Default St Pancras Thameslink Platforms (Midland Rd)

In message .com, at
13:44:07 on Mon, 11 Jun 2007, D7666 remarked:
No, you can stand at the entrance to the concourse and see all the
platforms at once, and they are numbers intuitively from left to right.
Heading for any of them is simply a case of going a bit left, right or
straight ahead.


In which case we shall have to defer judgement on St.Pancras Whatever-
They-Call-It until it is finally open and complete - because it may be
intuitive once we have the final solution.

Hard to see from today I agree, but you never know, it might be.


No, the plans are available, and we have experience of the location of
both the MML and Kent (was temporary MML) platforms. The entrance to the
E* departures will be in the middle of the Barlow Shed, and the entrance
to the Thameslink platforms is on the country side of the currently
closed Midland Road exit, at the side of the domestic ticket office.

All four "sections" are quite disjoint, and the only way from one set of
platforms to the other is via the somewhat maze-like ground level
concourse.

I don't believe there's even (for example) a lift from the MML platforms
directly down to the FCC platforms; nor as the original questioner was
asking is there an extra "secret passage" between the FCC platforms and
either of the LUL ticket halls.
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Roland Perry