The new Western Ticket Hall at King's Cross St Pancras is now open,
with three new entrances: outside King's Cross, on the west side of St
Pancras Road, and a little further west along Euston Road. Two former
street entrances outside King's Cross have closed.

Access to the Met/Circle/H+C is now via the Western Ticket Hall only.

I'll be using this every working day. But here are a few initial
observations:

I was disappointed to see that there are no escalators down into the
new ticket hall, nor are there any down to the Met line platforms.
Although there appear to be lifts I expect lots of people will continue
to struggle up and down the steps with their luggage.

There is some misleading signposting in the Western ticket hall, with
some signs for "St Pancras" pointing west rather than east. Presumably
the signposting refers to the

On the Circle/H+C line, although the entrance to the platforms has
moved to the western end, eastbound trains continue to stop at the
eastern end. Since Circle/H+C trains are much shorter than the platform
a lot of people will find themselves having to walk along the platform
to the last car when the train stops.

The "old" ticket hall is now much more congested than before now that
the ticket counters are open.

PaulO

Paul Oter wrote:
The new Western Ticket Hall at King's Cross St Pancras is now open,
with three new entrances: outside King's Cross, on the west side of St
Pancras Road, and a little further west along Euston Road. Two former
street entrances outside King's Cross have closed.

Access to the Met/Circle/H+C is now via the Western Ticket Hall only.

I'll be using this every working day. But here are a few initial
observations:

I was disappointed to see that there are no escalators down into the
new ticket hall, nor are there any down to the Met line platforms.
Although there appear to be lifts I expect lots of people will continue
to struggle up and down the steps with their luggage.

There is some misleading signposting in the Western ticket hall, with
some signs for "St Pancras" pointing west rather than east. Presumably
the signposting refers to the

(I meant) Presumably ths signposting will make more sense when the
Eurostar station is open.

PaulO

Paul Oter wrote:


Paul Oter wrote:
The new Western Ticket Hall at King's Cross St Pancras is now open,
with three new entrances: outside King's Cross, on the west side of St
Pancras Road, and a little further west along Euston Road. Two former
street entrances outside King's Cross have closed.

Access to the Met/Circle/H+C is now via the Western Ticket Hall only.

I'll be using this every working day. But here are a few initial
observations:

I was disappointed to see that there are no escalators down into the
new ticket hall, nor are there any down to the Met line platforms.
Although there appear to be lifts I expect lots of people will continue
to struggle up and down the steps with their luggage.

There is some misleading signposting in the Western ticket hall, with
some signs for "St Pancras" pointing west rather than east. Presumably
the signposting refers to the

(I meant) Presumably ths signposting will make more sense when the
Eurostar station is open.

Don't these signs currently direct people via a ramp to street level?

On 29 May 2006 13:07:01 -0700, "Paul Oter"
wrote:

The new Western Ticket Hall at King's Cross St Pancras is now open,
with three new entrances: outside King's Cross, on the west side of St
Pancras Road, and a little further west along Euston Road. Two former
street entrances outside King's Cross have closed.

Access to the Met/Circle/H+C is now via the Western Ticket Hall only.

I'll be using this every working day. But here are a few initial
observations:

I was disappointed to see that there are no escalators down into the
new ticket hall, nor are there any down to the Met line platforms.
Although there appear to be lifts I expect lots of people will continue
to struggle up and down the steps with their luggage.

It's a nice large ticket hall, but causes people entering from the
Euston Road a long walk to the lift, which is in the north-western
corner -- almost a complete circuit.

The lift up from the platform was *already* out of order yesterday
evening.

There is some misleading signposting in the Western ticket hall, with
some signs for "St Pancras" pointing west rather than east. Presumably
the signposting refers to the

Equally steps down to the ticket hall in the south-eastern corner are
signposted for the Northern, Piccadilly and Victoria lines, with no
mention of the other lines.

On the Circle/H+C line, although the entrance to the platforms has
moved to the western end, eastbound trains continue to stop at the
eastern end. Since Circle/H+C trains are much shorter than the platform
a lot of people will find themselves having to walk along the platform
to the last car when the train stops.

All westbound trains now stop at the west end of the platform, which
narrows towards the end. Previously Circle and H&C trains stopped at
monitors two cars short of the end. One wonders why such monitors were
not installed on the eastbound.

The "old" ticket hall is now much more congested than before now that
the ticket counters are open.

PaulO

Yesterday it didn't help that the ticket office in the Western ticket
hall was not in use.

Overall an improvement on what went before, but a lot of work remains.
Presumably this explains why the Met line through Kings Cross wiil be
closed four more times up to September.

Regards,

Clive R Robertson
--
Clive R Robertson -- AS/400 Programmer.

Webmaster of http://www.osterleypark.org.uk/ -- this describes
a beautiful National Trust property in West London.

In article .com,
(Paul Oter) wrote:

The "old" ticket hall is now much more congested than before now that
the ticket counters are open.

Much to my amazement the new ticket office is no larger than the old,
with the same number (3) of large ticket machines, the only ones to top
up Oyster on. Result long queues at 11:15 this morning just to top up.
When is Web top-up going to be more flexible?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
In article .com,
(Paul Oter) wrote:


The "old" ticket hall is now much more congested than before now that
the ticket counters are open.


Much to my amazement the new ticket office is no larger than the old,
with the same number (3) of large ticket machines, the only ones to top
up Oyster on. Result long queues at 11:15 this morning just to top up.
When is Web top-up going to be more flexible?

Presumably this shortage is only temporary, until the refurb of existing
office is completed... and then there will be the Northern one in a few
years.
AND
who buys tickets now?

Jim Chisholm

In article , (J.
Chisholm) wrote:

Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
In article .com,
(Paul Oter) wrote:

The "old" ticket hall is now much more congested than before now
that the ticket counters are open.

Much to my amazement the new ticket office is no larger than the
old, with the same number (3) of large ticket machines, the only
ones to top up Oyster on. Result long queues at 11:15 this morning
just to top up. When is Web top-up going to be more flexible?

Presumably this shortage is only temporary, until the refurb of
existing office is completed...

Not that it would appear. If you're coming of a Cambridge train and
going to the Victoria Line the others are way out of the way.

and then there will be the Northern
one in a few years. AND who buys tickets now?

People who begrudge having to pay LU in advance, perhaps?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
In article , (J.
Chisholm) wrote:
[snip]
who buys tickets now?

People who begrudge having to pay LU in advance, perhaps?

But who most likely are happy to provide their employers with a week's
or a month's labour before seeing anything for it?

--
Larry Lard
Replies to group please

On Tue, 30 May 2006 12:05 +0100 (BST), (Colin
Rosenstiel) wrote:

In article .com,
(Paul Oter) wrote:

The "old" ticket hall is now much more congested than before now that
the ticket counters are open.

Much to my amazement the new ticket office is no larger than the old,
with the same number (3) of large ticket machines, the only ones to top
up Oyster on. Result long queues at 11:15 this morning just to top up.
When is Web top-up going to be more flexible?

Can you advise how many ticket office machines there are ?
--
Stuart Johnson in Peterhead, Scotland
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"J. Chisholm" wrote in news:e5hc1v$jab$1
@gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk:

who buys tickets now?

I did today. I bought a travelcard from a tube station. I didnt buy
online because I normally travel on National Rail so can't buy online.