The current long route from the underground to platform level at St
Pancras station is a joke! Are there no plans to have a direct
underground passage to the station, that avoids an outside walk
braving the elements? There also seems to be an exit from the station
onto Midland Road, but this is closed - are there no plans to open it?

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Andrea typed:
The current long route from the underground to platform level at St
Pancras station is a joke! Are there no plans to have a direct
underground passage to the station, that avoids an outside walk
braving the elements? There also seems to be an exit from the station
onto Midland Road, but this is closed - are there no plans to open it?


Both will be opening later this year.




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Bob

On Mar 6, 1:46 pm, "Bob Wood" wrote:
The current long route from the underground to platform level at St
Pancras station is a joke! Are there no plans to have a direct
underground passage to the station, that avoids an outside walk
braving the elements? There also seems to be an exit from the station
onto Midland Road, but this is closed - are there no plans to open it?

Both will be opening later this year.


Indeed - and another side entrance to the new Underground ticket hall
between St P and KX will open in c2009.

I wonder if the OP has noticed that St Pancras and Midland Road both
have something of an unfinished/building site ambience at present...?

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John Band
john at johnband dot org
www.johnband.org

On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, John B wrote:

On Mar 6, 1:46 pm, "Bob Wood" wrote:

The current long route from the underground to platform level at St
Pancras station is a joke!

I wonder if the OP has noticed that St Pancras and Midland Road both
have something of an unfinished/building site ambience at present...?

Speaking of which, answers on a postcard:

http://flickr.com/photos/twic/411990029/

tom

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On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, John B wrote:

On Mar 6, 1:46 pm, "Bob Wood" wrote:

The current long route from the underground to platform level at St
Pancras station is a joke!

I wonder if the OP has noticed that St Pancras and Midland Road both
have something of an unfinished/building site ambience at present...?

Speaking of which, answers on a postcard:

http://flickr.com/photos/twic/411990029/

tom

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Is that the on the walk way to St Pancras station? I remember when it used
to be all underground the walk and you used to come out by a pub. I forget
what the pub was called.

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On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, John B wrote:

On Mar 6, 1:46 pm, "Bob Wood" wrote:

The current long route from the underground to platform level
at St Pancras station is a joke!

I wonder if the OP has noticed that St Pancras and Midland Road
both have something of an unfinished/building site ambience at
present...?

Speaking of which, answers on a postcard:

http://flickr.com/photos/twic/411990029/

Is that the on the walk way to St Pancras station? I remember when
it used to be all underground the walk and you used to come out by
a pub. I forget what the pub was called.

It's in St Pancras Road. I cycle along it past the sign after arriving at
King's Cross platforms 9-11. I'd like to know what it means too. I seem
to remember it's the wrong side of the Great Northern Hotel for the
Northern Ticket Hall works.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Tom Anderson wrote:

Speaking of which, answers on a postcard:

http://flickr.com/photos/twic/411990029/

"The blue egg? Beats me". So it's an egg beater?

On 6 Mar 2007 07:56:04 -0800, "John B" wrote:

On Mar 6, 1:46 pm, "Bob Wood" wrote:
The current long route from the underground to platform level at St
Pancras station is a joke! Are there no plans to have a direct
underground passage to the station, that avoids an outside walk
braving the elements? There also seems to be an exit from the station
onto Midland Road, but this is closed - are there no plans to open it?

Both will be opening later this year.


Indeed - and another side entrance to the new Underground ticket hall
between St P and KX will open in c2009.

I wonder if the OP has noticed that St Pancras and Midland Road both
have something of an unfinished/building site ambience at present...?

What nobody is admitting is that work on the new (Northern) Undrground
ticket hall was suspended for two years, thus messing up the timescale
and leaving MML (and FCC/Thameslink) passengers with the present trek
to the tube for two more years after St P is supposedly completed.
The hall will of course be opened in time for the domestic CTRL
services.
--
Peter Lawrence

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(Peter Lawrence) wrote:

What nobody is admitting is that work on the new (Northern)
Undrground ticket hall was suspended for two years, thus messing up the

timescale and leaving MML (and FCC/Thameslink) passengers with the
present trek to the tube for two more years after St P is supposedly
completed. The hall will of course be opened in time for the domestic
CTRL services.

And then there is the reworking of King's Cross mainline to come,
especially sweeping away the "temporary" concourse.

Are they going to achieve the miracle of Liverpool Street of converting a
station with all-over step free access to one full of stairs and
escalators too? Anyone seen any consultations on plans?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

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And then there is the reworking of King's Cross mainline to come,
especially sweeping away the "temporary" concourse.

Are they going to achieve the miracle of Liverpool Street of converting a
station with all-over step free access to one full of stairs and
escalators too? Anyone seen any consultations on plans?


From what I've gleaned elsewhere, acess from the new northern ticket hall
will be via a footbridge across the middle of the platforms, but the south
end access will also be retained.

There's a summary sheet here Colin:

http://www.networkrail.co.uk/documen...ossLeaflet.pdf

Paul