London Banter - View Single Post - Easy interchanges in London (Waterloo vs St. Pancras International)

Colin Rosenstiel · September 6th 07, 04:08 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Sarah Brown) wrote:

In article .com,
John B wrote:

Agreed that Finsbury Park, Oxford Circus, Euston and Stockwell are all
both good and clever.

But why didn't they go for x-platform at Green Park and Warren
Street...?

Or Kings Cross. It's a particular bugbear of mine that there's really
no good way for someone arriving at Kings Cross or St Pancras to get
onto the Charing Cross Branch. Surely it wouldn't have been too hard
to arrange things so that the Victoria Line interchanged with the Bank
branch at KX, and the CX branch at Euston? Having cross platform
interchange at Euston with the Bank branch seems a whole lot less
useful than what could have been done.

There were other considerations at Euston. The original City & South
London platform at Euston was an island in a wide tunnel. They were
dangerous and have all now gone except at one of the Clapham stations.

The Victoria line construction solved that, created a running connection
between the lines and a cross-platform connection in one go.

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Colin Rosenstiel