On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:54:37 +0000, Allan put finger to keyboard and
typed:

John Salmon wrote:
Surprisingly, I don't think this has been posted here yet...

Posters displayed at King's Cross indicate that the entrance to the
Underground from within the main line station concourse - the one more
or less opposite platform 7 - which seems to have been there for ever,
at least within my recollection, is to close permanently from next
Sunday, 1st February.

I may be missing something, but this is a great pity. It was so easy to
get off an arriving train, and straight down the stairs into the
underground.

Fom 1 Feb, you have through the often crowded station concourse, out of
the front of the station, merge in with everyone else coming into the
station, and then down the stairs.

In the short term, yes, it's going to be a nuisance. But it's part of
a long-term plan which will, at least in theory, make things a lot
better.

All this so a lift can be installed.

It's not just so a lift can be installed. In the long run, the whole
of the existing concourse area (where the stairs currently emerge)
will disappear. The new concourse will be to the side of the station,
instead of in front of it, and the area where the stairs now emerge
will be outside the building instead of inside it.

There's are some artist's impressions of the station after the
concourse redevelopment at:
http://www.e-architect.co.uk/london/...ss_station.htm

and the Network Rail information page about it is at:
http://www.networkrail.co.uk/aspx/4059.aspx

Mark
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