On 24 Sep, 11:33, Tom Barry wrote:
John B wrote:
On Sep 24, 10:37 am, Tom Barry wrote:
I'm horrified to find myself agreeing with 'Bruce' here, although the
blasted word 'iconic' is overused, as ever. *Euston works very well as a
station if you're coming from the underground (but rather less well if
you're on foot or bus) and is an excellent railway station. *Far from
being a deliberate snub to the past, is in many ways a 1960s reworking
of what the LSWR did at Waterloo 40 years earlier, for much the same reason.

Agreed with your post in general. Confused by the "bus" point though -
Euston has a big bus station at the front with easy access to and from
the station, unlike most other London terminals where you have to hunt
for your stop across a variety of side-roads...

Yes, it's just a wee bit further away than is convenient. *Mind you,
Waterloo's not brilliant for this, although it's not a particularly
difficult walk.

Euston has a couple of bus stops down side roads, too (Eversholt Street,
for instance), and I'm fairly sure I've had to cross Euston Road to get
some buses westbound down there (27?) that weren't serving the main bus
station. *There's not a lot wrong with it that couldn't be fixed either
by moving the bus station nearer the concourse or the concourse nearer
the bus station and diverting all buses serving the station through it
(and, for that matter, covering it over a bit).


All the westbound buses now leave from the other side of Euston Road,
with the exception of the 18 from Euston to Sudbury which starts by
the gate house, but drops passengers off eastbound on Euston Road
before turning round via Grafton Place. The number of routes actually
using the bus station has thinned out in recent years as frequencies
have increased and some routes now only use it in one direction,
stopping on the road in the other (for example the 59 which uses the
bus station northbound, but now uses the corner of Euston Road and
Upper Woburn Place southbound).