Had a letter today from the Thameslink people telling me they were
reopening the line through London on 16 May.

Will there be anything different to see? I take it the new St Pancras
station won't be open yet, but I want to go to Kentish Town anyway for
another reason, and am wondering if it will be worth postponing my trip
until 16 May, and whether there will be anything different to see if I
do?
--
"Mrs Redboots"
http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/
Website updated 3 April 2005

Mrs Redboots wrote:
Will there be anything different to see? I take it the new St
Pancras
station won't be open yet,



Correct. However, the box will be there, so you might see that. Aside
from that, there's probably nothing that can't be seen from the Eastern
Interim station or surrounding area.

PhilD

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PhilD wrote:
Mrs Redboots wrote:

Will there be anything different to see? I take it the new St
Pancras station won't be open yet,

Correct. However, the box will be there, so you might see that.
Aside from that, there's probably nothing that can't be seen from the
Eastern Interim station or surrounding area.

See here for a good view:

http://www.ctrl.co.uk/photos/newdisplay.asp?ID=5368

Shame they can't find the £70 million.

Angus

In message , Angus Bryant
writes

See here for a good view:

http://www.ctrl.co.uk/photos/newdisplay.asp?ID=5368

Shame they can't find the £70 million.

Even more staggering is the cost. How can fitting out the platforms and
providing escalators possibly come to £70 million?

--
Paul Terry

In article ,
(Paul Terry) wrote:

In message , Angus Bryant
writes

See here for a good view:

http://www.ctrl.co.uk/photos/newdisplay.asp?ID=5368

Shame they can't find the £70 million.

Even more staggering is the cost. How can fitting out the platforms and
providing escalators possibly come to £70 million?

It's mostly to pay highly-qualified and highly-paid people from all the
different bits of the privatised railway to talk to each other. :-(

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Paul Terry wrote:
In message , Angus Bryant
writes

See here for a good view:

http://www.ctrl.co.uk/photos/newdisplay.asp?ID=5368

Shame they can't find the £70 million.

Even more staggering is the cost. How can fitting out the platforms
and
providing escalators possibly come to £70 million?

Don't forget that they have to provide dogs and small children as
well... gd&r

In message , Mrs Redboots
writes

Had a letter today from the Thameslink people telling me they were
reopening the line through London on 16 May.

Will there be anything different to see? I take it the new St Pancras
station won't be open yet,

It won't even have been started yet (apart from the actual station box)
- last I heard was that there was still no finance to build an actual
station.

--
Paul Terry

On Fri, 6 May 2005 13:35:07 +0100, Mrs Redboots
wrote:

Had a letter today from the Thameslink people telling me they were
reopening the line through London on 16 May.

Will there be anything different to see? I take it the new St Pancras
station won't be open yet, but I want to go to Kentish Town anyway for
another reason, and am wondering if it will be worth postponing my trip
until 16 May, and whether there will be anything different to see if I
do?

Much more interesting to do the trip before the 16th via St Pancras;
that you can get views of various bits of the CTRL station works (even
more if you take a walk around the edges of the building sites). From
Thameslink the most you are likely to see is a pair of uncompleted
platforms and the opening into the new tunnel, both probably lit only
by the light from the train windows.
--
Peter Lawrence

Peter Lawrence wrote to uk.transport.london on Fri, 6 May 2005:

On Fri, 6 May 2005 13:35:07 +0100, Mrs Redboots
wrote:

Had a letter today from the Thameslink people telling me they were
reopening the line through London on 16 May.

Will there be anything different to see? I take it the new St Pancras
station won't be open yet, but I want to go to Kentish Town anyway for
another reason, and am wondering if it will be worth postponing my trip
until 16 May, and whether there will be anything different to see if I
do?

Much more interesting to do the trip before the 16th via St Pancras;
that you can get views of various bits of the CTRL station works (even
more if you take a walk around the edges of the building sites). From
Thameslink the most you are likely to see is a pair of uncompleted
platforms and the opening into the new tunnel, both probably lit only
by the light from the train windows.

Thanks! In other words, probably not worth it - I might as well use the
Northern Line!
--
"Mrs Redboots"
http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/
Website updated 3 April 2005

In them message ...
"Mrs Redboots" wrote:
Peter Lawrence wrote to uk.transport.london on Fri, 6 May 2005:

On Fri, 6 May 2005 13:35:07 +0100, Mrs Redboots
wrote:

Had a letter today from the Thameslink people telling me they were
reopening the line through London on 16 May.

Will there be anything different to see? I take it the new St Pancras
station won't be open yet, but I want to go to Kentish Town anyway for
another reason, and am wondering if it will be worth postponing my trip
until 16 May, and whether there will be anything different to see if I
do?

Much more interesting to do the trip before the 16th via St Pancras;
that you can get views of various bits of the CTRL station works (even
more if you take a walk around the edges of the building sites). From
Thameslink the most you are likely to see is a pair of uncompleted
platforms and the opening into the new tunnel, both probably lit only
by the light from the train windows.

Thanks! In other words, probably not worth it - I might as well use the
Northern Line!

But if you use your imagination on your ride through the Thameslink tunnel,
you can visualise the now-culverted Fleet river flowing over it nearby
(there's a picture of what it once looked like on the railings outside Old
St-Pancras Church nearby) and/or the adjacent ancient graveyard through
which the tunnel was driven...

For more such impressions, see the recently-published paperback edition of
Stephen Smith's Underground London (Abacus) - but anoraks beware, as he says
himself, it's not guaranteed to be absolutely factual.

Regards,

- Alan (in Brussels)