Does anyone know if the St Pancras Thameslink platforms (which open at the
end of the year) will have direct access to the underground via the western
ticket hall?

Is there a drawing available on line showing the position of the Thameslink
platforms w.r.t. the rest of the site?

Paul S

On Jun 11, 1:04 pm, "Paul Scott"
wrote:
Does anyone know if the St Pancras Thameslink platforms (which open at the
end of the year) will have direct access to the underground via the western
ticket hall?

No, they'll be essentially under the Midland Mainline station at the
northwest corner of the site. You'll come up from ground level just
underneath the current MML escalators, where you can head south
through St Pancras to the Western ticket hall, or (one day) east a bit
then down into the new tunnel to the Northern ticket hall.

Is there a drawing available on line showing the position of the Thameslink
platforms w.r.t. the rest of the site?

http://www.arup.com/industrial/project.cfm?pageid=5658

Link top right.

U

"Mr Thant" wrote in message
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On Jun 11, 1:04 pm, "Paul Scott"
wrote:
Does anyone know if the St Pancras Thameslink platforms (which open at
the
end of the year) will have direct access to the underground via the
western
ticket hall?

No, they'll be essentially under the Midland Mainline station at the
northwest corner of the site. You'll come up from ground level just
underneath the current MML escalators, where you can head south
through St Pancras to the Western ticket hall, or (one day) east a bit
then down into the new tunnel to the Northern ticket hall.

Is there a drawing available on line showing the position of the
Thameslink
platforms w.r.t. the rest of the site?

http://www.arup.com/industrial/project.cfm?pageid=5658

Link top right.


Thanks for that - the reason I asked is that I have seen a few 'unofficial'
descriptions on the www of a direct link between the new Thameslink
platforms and the western ticket hall - even the very southern end of the
new stations seems quite a distance from the underground...

Paul

In oups.com,
Mr Thant typed:

http://www.arup.com/industrial/project.cfm?pageid=5658


10-car Class 319 trains?

That's interesting!
;-)





--
Bob

Mr Thant wrote:
On Jun 11, 1:04 pm, "Paul Scott"
wrote:
Does anyone know if the St Pancras Thameslink platforms (which open at the
end of the year) will have direct access to the underground via the western
ticket hall?

No, they'll be essentially under the Midland Mainline station at the
northwest corner of the site. You'll come up from ground level just
underneath the current MML escalators, where you can head south
through St Pancras to the Western ticket hall, or (one day) east a bit
then down into the new tunnel to the Northern ticket hall.
There better be a very wide gateline then - at least at KCM you can
avoid the gates if you wish to use the nearby LUL station. Damn that
non-existant travelator!

On a side note the new Thameslink station will (like the station above)
be called St Pancras International.

"Sky Rider" wrote in message
...
Mr Thant wrote:
On Jun 11, 1:04 pm, "Paul Scott"
wrote:
Does anyone know if the St Pancras Thameslink platforms (which open at
the
end of the year) will have direct access to the underground via the
western
ticket hall?

No, they'll be essentially under the Midland Mainline station at the
northwest corner of the site. You'll come up from ground level just
underneath the current MML escalators, where you can head south
through St Pancras to the Western ticket hall, or (one day) east a bit
then down into the new tunnel to the Northern ticket hall.
There better be a very wide gateline then - at least at KCM you can avoid
the gates if you wish to use the nearby LUL station. Damn that
non-existant travelator!

On a side note the new Thameslink station will (like the station above) be
called St Pancras International.

Thats why I put (Midland Rd) in brackets...

Paul

On Jun 11, 5:11 pm, Sky Rider wrote:
There better be a very wide gateline then - at least at KCM you can
avoid the gates if you wish to use the nearby LUL station. Damn that
non-existant travelator!

On a side note the new Thameslink station will (like the station above)
be called St Pancras International.

Does this mean the platforms will be numbered 14 & 15?

--
Abi

In message , at 16:11:50 on Mon,
11 Jun 2007, Sky Rider remarked:
On a side note the new Thameslink station will (like the station above)
be called St Pancras International.

Will there be any other station in the UK with four distinct sets of
platforms (not counting LUL platforms)?

Waterloo perhaps has three: Main concourse, East (or is that different
station altogether) and Eurostar (even post E* they might be entered
separately). Manchester Piccadilly has two, as does London Bridge; any
other offers for three or more?
--
Roland Perry

On Jun 11, 5:38 pm, Roland Perry wrote:

any
other offers for three or more?


Ashford International - CTRL platforms split the Up and Down
domestics.


Stratford - dodgy one this - it may or not be 2 or 3 today changing to
a different 2 or 3 on completion of rebuild - and I am counting
neother LU or DLR.

2 today for certain are the GE main lines and the low level NLL
platforms - but some people I think might consider todays 11/12 to be
seperate. After rebuild is completed there will be (I think) 2 - the
GE main lines and the CTRL lines - and a third again depending on how
you count things - the replacement NLL platform group (the low level -
I think - is completely gone).

--
Nick

On Jun 11, 5:38 pm, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 16:11:50 on Mon,
11 Jun 2007, Sky Rider remarked:

On a side note the new Thameslink station will (like the station above)
be called St Pancras International.

Will there be any other station in the UK with four distinct sets of
platforms (not counting LUL platforms)?

Waterloo perhaps has three: Main concourse, East (or is that different
station altogether) and Eurostar (even post E* they might be entered
separately). Manchester Piccadilly has two, as does London Bridge; any
other offers for three or more?



I'd say London Bridge had three really, in that three lead only to/
from Cannon Street and three (plus the passing track) lead only to/
from Charing Cross/Blackfriars.

I think you could argue for Clapham Junction having five distinct sets

Platform 2, only for Silverlink via Olympia

Platforms 3 - 6, only to/from Putney

Platforms 7 - 11, only to/from the Wimbledon direction

Platforms 12 - 15, only to/from Victoria and to/from Balham etc

Platforms 16 and 17, only for between Olympia and the south


Also, platform 1 for ghost trains, but you could say that about
platform 8 at London Bridge as well.