On 14 Oct, 19:24, wrote:
Hello, I'm the photographer who took the photos of the Euston tunnels,
I must say a lot of completely wrong information has been written in
this post.

I've put together a page which will hopefully clear things up, just to
be clear things up.

http://www.robertsphotos.co.uk/desktop.htm

Cheers

Robert Stainforth

Thanks, that clears a lot of things up. Do you think that anyone
anywhere would have a photograph of the island platform with the
stairs from the bridges?

Your 1908 platform photo is quite amusing - I like the way there's a
lamppost down there and it looks like toy trains. But I especially
like the fact that it looks like there's a tardis at the bottom of the
stairs.

From the old photo of the Charing Cross branch platforms, it looks
like they must have rebuilt that end of the station completely. When
they built the victoria line, and the new entrance to the platform,
how did they build the stairs down onto the platforms while keeping
the old entrance up to the platforms open? I suppose it would make
sense if the stairs down onto the southbound platform were built
first, and used as an exit as well while they built the other
staircase?

But that would only work if the interchange passage up to the Charing
Cross branch only went onto the northbound platform; the picture does
seem to suggest this, but I was wondering why they built the
interchange passage like this in the first place?

The other thing I notice is that in your photograph of the top of the
interchange stairs, the wall infront seems to be vertically floor to
ceiling, and doesn't seem to have any stairs coming down on top of it;
this suggests that its quite a long way behind the current entrance to
the platform - far back enough to be completely behind the stairs. But
the old photgraph seems to suggest that the old stairs are right next
to the platform - so they must have blocked up quite a bit of the
platform between where the old stairs end and where the new stairs
reach the current end of the platform?

Its a bit as if where the double dark tile ring is (with 3.4-5 on the
wall) in the old photograph is equal to where the man with blue jeans
is in the new photograph, and the bits of the platform beyond the
double dark tile ring are now blocked off for some reason.