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Old November 7th 07, 06:03 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default "Queen to open St Pancras station" today


"John Rowland" wrote in message
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I presume we won't be allowed into most of St Pancras when the Eurostars
start running, but are we allowed to explore it now?


I don't think access will be as limited as you might imagine after next
Wednesday. Only the arrival and departure areas/lounges for Eurostar will be
off limits, where security and passport control takes place, but they are in
the undercroft level. There will be pretty good access otherwise, at both
undercroft level for the shops, and the route from the underground Western
ticket hall, past the Eurostar sales office to the domestic concourse, and
from the front of the station, at platform level, through the old taxi
access, across and up the west side all the way to the MML platforms.

If you were to have visited a few days ago, you wouldn't have got down the
length of the main shed, but only because shopfitting etc was still going
on, I'm not sure if any more has opened since the Queen's visit last night,
but as major stations go I believe access will be quite good...

A few months ago I had no problem walking to the end of one of the vacant
MML platforms for a look round, however they normally man their barriers if
there is a train there.

Paul