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Getting hold of tube maps
This used to be a trivial matter of asking at a ticket office and sometimes
from racks at ticket offices. Now that ticket offices are closing, how is it supposed to work? I wanted to get an up-to-date tube map and had a little time before getting my train at King's Cross yesterday so I descended into the bowels of the tube station to look. Nothing in the original ticket hall so I went to the Western Ticket Hall following signs to a Travel Office (or whatever). No sign of a staffed facility and the few leaflets on offer were in larger than tube maps racks on a wall. So I asked at the gateline where a staff member offered me her somewhat dogeared map. I asked if she had any new ones and she went over to a small pile on the base of a signboard. Is this what the best way of helping visitors round the tube system has come down to now? -- Colin Rosenstiel |
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On 06/09/2015 17:41, Roland Perry wrote: In message , at 11:15:38 on Sun, 6 Sep 2015, remarked: I wanted to get an up-to-date tube map and had a little time before getting my train at King's Cross yesterday so I descended into the bowels of the tube station to look. Nothing in the original ticket hall so I went to the Western Ticket Hall following signs to a Travel Office (or whatever). No sign of a staffed facility The Travel Centre/Office is at the far west of the building, at approx ground level up a flight of stairs from the booking hall. It's mainly for selling guided tours and such like to tourists, it's not really about the tube. Says who? (Apart from you.) https://tfl.gov.uk/fares-and-payments/buying-tickets/visitor-and-travel-information-centres |
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In message , at 17:48:10 on Sun, 6 Sep 2015,
Mizter T remarked: The Travel Centre/Office is at the far west of the building, at approx ground level up a flight of stairs from the booking hall. It's mainly for selling guided tours and such like to tourists, it's not really about the tube. Says who? (Apart from you.) https://tfl.gov.uk/fares-and-payments/buying-tickets/visitor-and-travel-information-centres The prominence of the "Attractions and Tours" on that web page, plus seeing it when it's open and the looking at the range of information on display and the fact it had a huge and very slowly moving queue. Quite unsuitable for asking for advice about which tube train to catch. It's all about getting the commission on the Tussauds tickets. -- Roland Perry |
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In article , (Mizter T) wrote:
On 06/09/2015 17:15, wrote: This used to be a trivial matter of asking at a ticket office and sometimes from racks at ticket offices. Now that ticket offices are closing, how is it supposed to work? I wanted to get an up-to-date tube map and had a little time before getting my train at King's Cross yesterday so I descended into the bowels of the tube station to look. Nothing in the original ticket hall so I went to the Western Ticket Hall following signs to a Travel Office (or whatever). No sign of a staffed facility and the few leaflets on offer were in larger than tube maps racks on a wall. So I asked at the gateline where a staff member offered me her somewhat dogeared map. I asked if she had any new ones and she went over to a small pile on the base of a signboard. Is this what the best way of helping visitors round the tube system has come down to now? Tube maps seem to remain widely available in leaflet racks at Tube stations. Nowhere I looked around King's Cross St Pancras (the Euston Road end) though. -- Colin Rosenstiel |
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... This used to be a trivial matter of asking at a ticket office and sometimes from racks at ticket offices. Now that ticket offices are closing, how is it supposed to work? https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...arket&hl=en_GB Works well for me - even without a data connection - and between 1 and 5 million others who have downloaded it. I found myself at a loss for a NY Subway map when I was there a couple of weeks back. Turns out there is a NY version of the same app. Paper maps are so last decade. -- DAS |
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D A Stocks wrote:
Paper maps are so last decade. But the cost of catastrophic failure of a paper map following use in heavy rain is so small compare with sizzle-sizzle-blank-screen -- Robin reply to address is (meant to be) valid |
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On Sun, Sep 06, 2015 at 11:15:38AM -0500, wrote:
This used to be a trivial matter of asking at a ticket office and sometimes from racks at ticket offices. Now that ticket offices are closing, how is it supposed to work? Google on your phone. -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire fdisk format reinstall, doo-dah, doo-dah; fdisk format reinstall, it's the Windows way |
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