They did have a guy outside the side entrance asking you where you were
going when they first started running Thameslink into St Pancras last
September. But all you had to say was "Leeds" and he let you through. I
found it quite good fun thinking up a new place to pretend I was going
to each day, but after a week they stopped asking anyone.

Rob

Martin Rich wrote:
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 20:23:30 +0000, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 14:20:47
on
Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Jason remarked:
It doesn't need to be a 500 (or even 300!) yard walk *outdoors* -
the
majority can be done indoors. Simply cross the St Pancras taxi rank
and walk via the King's Cross platforms 9/10/11 building, and then
down platform 8 to the Underground entrance.

Except there are signs prohibiting it. On one hand it's a bloody
cheek,
on the other it's private property and they could insist that all
passengers walked along the platform naked (to pick a random stupid
policy).

Is this a recent development? A week or so back I'd arrived at KX on
a number 214 bus northbound, and needed to get to the temporary St
Pancras Station. I did roughly the walk that Jason describes above -
in the other direction of course - and was surprised to notice signs
that the concourse at Kings Cross was only for WAGN and GNER
passengers.

(Since I use WAGN several times per week I didn't feel any
compunction
in walking through the concourse... )

Martin