On 17 Nov, 16:24, MIG wrote:
But presumably no more than it ever did ...?*

There are far more people using the stairs than usual. The current
barriering redirects them to where the main entrance to the platform
used to be.

*I can see that it could
be unnerving if people stopped at that end of the platform instead of
moving on to where the trains currently stop, but there's no point
(yet) in a crowd waiting at that end of the platform. *They have to
move on.

People seemed to clump around where the front of train ends up (and I
think the only indicator is), which meant everyone else was stuck at
the end of the platform where the train wasn't, with people pouring
down the stairs behind them.

*or at any other station where stairs lead down to the platforms.

Stairs that dump onto one end of a platform is appalling at busy
stations. A big reason for the Northern Ticket Hall work at King's
Cross, and the 1990s rebuild of Angel, is to eradicate this.

U