Proposal - every Tube ticket office to close by 2015
 

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at
10:09:10 on Sun, 24 Nov 2013, remarked:
if they can't the application has to be completed and the card issued
at a Travel Information Centre.

Where are they? The only ones I was familiar with are St James's Park
and Trafalgar Square, and I thought they'd both been closed. Is there
one at Heathrow, so the arriving tourist can get their card before
catching the tube?

I thought St James's Park Travel Information Centre closed the best part
of a decade ago?

Could be as long ago as that. It always seemed to me that if they
couldn't justify such an outlet in their own HQ building, was there
ever a future for ones outside.

There was at last one other left open when it closed.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Proposal - every Tube ticket office to close by 2015
 

In article ,
(Neil Williams) wrote:

On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 07:41:33 +0000, Roland Perry
wrote:
That Oyster Photocard would be the "toddler Freedom Pass" then. How does
a tourist get one of those issued without using a ticket office to paste
the photo in?

In most other countries I expect they would be unavailable and it
would just be a "tourist tax". Or a city tax would be charged on
hotel rooms and a free ticket issued for everyone staying.

But TfL intend to keep a few offices at major tourist entry points.

Do they have one at King's Cross St Pancras even now? Must be second only to
Heathrow for arriving tourists. There are always gargantuan queues at the
ticket offices now.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Proposal - every Tube ticket office to close by 2015
 

In message , at 14:57:55
on Sun, 24 Nov 2013, remarked:
if they can't the application has to be completed and the card issued
at a Travel Information Centre.

Where are they? The only ones I was familiar with are St James's Park
and Trafalgar Square, and I thought they'd both been closed. Is there
one at Heathrow, so the arriving tourist can get their card before
catching the tube?

I thought St James's Park Travel Information Centre closed the best part
of a decade ago?

Could be as long ago as that. It always seemed to me that if they
couldn't justify such an outlet in their own HQ building, was there
ever a future for ones outside.

There was at last one other left open when it closed.

According to the TfL website, Travel Information Centres are currently
at: Liverpool St, Piccadilly Circus, Euston, Victoria, Kings Cross[1]
and Heathrow T123.

[1] Western Ticket Hall, St Pancras. I have to say I've never noticed
it. Will pay more attention next time I'm there.
--
Roland Perry

Proposal - every Tube ticket office to close by 2015
 

Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 14:57:55
on Sun, 24 Nov 2013, remarked:
if they can't the application has to be completed and the card issued
at a Travel Information Centre.

Where are they? The only ones I was familiar with are St James's Park
and Trafalgar Square, and I thought they'd both been closed. Is there
one at Heathrow, so the arriving tourist can get their card before
catching the tube?

I thought St James's Park Travel Information Centre closed the best part
of a decade ago?

Could be as long ago as that. It always seemed to me that if they
couldn't justify such an outlet in their own HQ building, was there
ever a future for ones outside.

There was at last one other left open when it closed.

According to the TfL website, Travel Information Centres are currently
at: Liverpool St, Piccadilly Circus, Euston, Victoria, Kings Cross[1] and Heathrow T123.

[1] Western Ticket Hall, St Pancras. I have to say I've never noticed
it. Will pay more attention next time I'm there.

From memory, it might be on the main passageway into the mainline station,
rather than at the lower level where the ticket office is.

Proposal - every Tube ticket office to close by 2015
 

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at
14:57:55 on Sun, 24 Nov 2013, remarked:
if they can't the application has to be completed and the card
issued at a Travel Information Centre.

Where are they? The only ones I was familiar with are St James's
Park and Trafalgar Square, and I thought they'd both been closed. Is
there one at Heathrow, so the arriving tourist can get their card
before catching the tube?

I thought St James's Park Travel Information Centre closed the best
part of a decade ago?

Could be as long ago as that. It always seemed to me that if they
couldn't justify such an outlet in their own HQ building, was there
ever a future for ones outside.

There was at least one other left open when it closed.

According to the TfL website, Travel Information Centres are
currently at: Liverpool St, Piccadilly Circus, Euston, Victoria,
Kings Cross[1] and Heathrow T123.

[1] Western Ticket Hall, St Pancras. I have to say I've never noticed
it. Will pay more attention next time I'm there.

You and me both! And I've tended to use the Western ticket hall for
preference until last year.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Proposal - every Tube ticket office to close by 2015
 

In article
,
(Recliner) wrote:

Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 14:57:55
on Sun, 24 Nov 2013, remarked:
if they can't the application has to be completed and the card
issued at a Travel Information Centre.

Where are they? The only ones I was familiar with are St James's
Park and Trafalgar Square, and I thought they'd both been closed. Is
there one at Heathrow, so the arriving tourist can get their card
before catching the tube?

I thought St James's Park Travel Information Centre closed the best
part of a decade ago?

Could be as long ago as that. It always seemed to me that if they
couldn't justify such an outlet in their own HQ building, was there
ever a future for ones outside.

There was at least one other left open when it closed.

According to the TfL website, Travel Information Centres are currently
at: Liverpool St, Piccadilly Circus, Euston, Victoria, Kings
Cross[1] and Heathrow T123.

[1] Western Ticket Hall, St Pancras. I have to say I've never
noticed
it. Will pay more attention next time I'm there.

From memory, it might be on the main passageway into the mainline station,
rather than at the lower level where the ticket office is.

Don't think so, not open regularly at least. There are cash machines on that
passageway.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Proposal - every Tube ticket office to close by 2015
 

Paul Corfield wrote:
On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 21:19:49 +0000, Roland Perry
wrote:

According to the TfL website, Travel Information Centres are currently
at: Liverpool St, Piccadilly Circus, Euston, Victoria, Kings Cross[1]
and Heathrow T123.

[1] Western Ticket Hall, St Pancras. I have to say I've never noticed
it. Will pay more attention next time I'm there.

It is in the Sub Surface lines area near where the big doors are in to
St Pancras itself - you walk up a small flight of stairs from the LU
ticket office to an intermediate landing.

If you're in a rush it is easy to miss. I think it was put there so it
would be on the main drag from Eurostar to the tube.

Ah, where I thought it was.

Proposal - every Tube ticket office to close by 2015
 

In article ,
(Paul Corfield) wrote:

On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 14:57:55 -0600,
wrote:

In article ,
(Neil Williams) wrote:

But TfL intend to keep a few offices at major tourist entry points.

Do they have one at King's Cross St Pancras even now? Must be second only
to Heathrow for arriving tourists. There are always gargantuan queues at
the ticket offices now.

And at the ticket machines. With the recent diversions that routed NR
passengers to the Northern ticket hall there were ridiculous queues at
the ticket office and machines. Previously it was the old Tube ticket
hall that took the brunt of the queues.

I was there with a group from Cambridge one Saturday including two
unfamiliar with London. They had bought London Terminals Day Returns when
the rest of us had bought Travelcards. We arrived on Platform 10 I think. I
took one look at the queue in the Northern ticket hall and two of us took
pity and lent them our own (spare) Oyster cards to get where we were going.
The old tube ticket hall was no better.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Proposal - every Tube ticket office to close by 2015
 

In message

, at 15:31:01 on Sun, 24 Nov 2013, Recliner
remarked:
According to the TfL website, Travel Information Centres are currently
at: Liverpool St, Piccadilly Circus, Euston, Victoria, Kings Cross[1] and Heathrow T123.

[1] Western Ticket Hall, St Pancras. I have to say I've never noticed
it. Will pay more attention next time I'm there.

From memory, it might be on the main passageway into the mainline station,
rather than at the lower level where the ticket office is.

In the area between the "pillared room" and Euston Road? Beyond there is
the Eurostar ticket office, but that's inside St Pancras proper, not the
Western ticket hall.
--
Roland Perry

Proposal - every Tube ticket office to close by 2015
 

In message , at 15:49:32
on Sun, 24 Nov 2013, remarked:
[1] Western Ticket Hall, St Pancras. I have to say I've never
noticed
it. Will pay more attention next time I'm there.

From memory, it might be on the main passageway into the mainline station,
rather than at the lower level where the ticket office is.

Don't think so, not open regularly at least. There are cash machines on that
passageway.

That sounds like the passageway from the old ticket hall to the Western
one, which is of course at the lower level.

Another place to put such an office (I don't know if they have) is in
the corridor from the old ticket hall to the Northern ticket hall.
--
Roland Perry