On 7 Aug, 09:51, "David A Stocks" wrote:
"Paul Corfield" wrote in message

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Quite. *I can't remember the last time I was seriously delayed
*leaving* a tube station. *And yet it happens just about every time
I have to go through barriers at Victoria.

I think the fact that £700m is to be spent expanding capacity at
Victoria is indicative that the place is seriously below capacity hence
the queuing time.

I thought David was commenting on how long it took to get through the *NR*
barriers at Victoria.

Nonetheless I suspect the 5 minute delay parameter might apply for NR
terminal stations.

The only NR barrier line I use regularly is the one serving platforms 15-19
at Victoria, and this is the only one I've encountered that seems to have
acceptable capacity in the morning peak. It only fails on the rare
occassions that two full trains arrive simultaneously - they usually open
all the gates and shout at people to walk through.

D A Stocks

It often takes a lot of time to get out of of the lower numbered side
of Victora NR. Platform 8, in particular, is a terrible bottleneck,
and it's usually better to walk to the far end and back down platform
7.

Given that that side of the station is relatively underused per
platform, there does seem to be a real problem there. I don't find
the same problem at Charing Cross, for example, which has a much
heavier use of platforms.