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May 24th 15, 08:28 AM posted to uk.transport.london

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(Lew 1) wrote:

Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at
03:48:57 on Fri, 22 May 2015, Offramp
remarked:
I just noticed that Tufnell Park is shut because the lifts are being
replaced.

So I suppose closing the existing entrance and building a new
Underground / Overground interchange at Station Road with escalators
cutting diagonally down to the existing Northern Line platforms is off
the menu for another 40 years.

Tuffers was one of those stations that had a rather annoying lift/
escalator characteristic. At the top landing the lift goes almost to
street level. There is a further flight of about 10 steps. At the
lower level the lift goes almost to platform level - there is a flight
of about 20 steps. Lots of other stations have this charming
idiosyncracy. It's a major design flaw.

The former is usually because there needs to be a mini concourse which
has access to both platforms, and it can't be any lower because the
tracks are in the way. I'll speculate that the latter is so that the
lift's machinery room can be at ground level.

They managed it at Caledonian Road.

No constraint to be under roads there, though. The Piccadilly runs under the
much wider GN Main Line.

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Colin Rosenstiel

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