On 11 Dec, 19:49, Roland Perry wrote:

The queues were horrendous in the old booking hall, and were horrendous
in the new one from the day it reopened. They just don't seem to want to
put enough staff on duty.

They will argue that the northern ticket hall will sort things out,
despite the fact that it's rare to see all the windows open!

The windows by the H&C/Circle/Met lines used to be almost empty (even
with signs telling those at the 'main' station to use them) but now
the load seems fairly evenly split. The problem is, the volume has
increased so much to the point where there can be long queues at both
offices.

Jonathan

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 18:34:59 on
Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Mike Roebuck remarked:
On Saturday lunchtime, queues for tickets in both LUL booking halls were
horrendous. This seems not to have been thought out properly at all.

The queues were horrendous in the old booking hall, and were horrendous in
the new one from the day it reopened. They just don't seem to want to put
enough staff on duty.
--
Roland Perry

I've seen these massive queues, why are there so many people who can't use
the automatic machines that take cash or cards?

Are they buying specialised tickets or some other reason?

In message , at 14:50:36
on Thu, 13 Dec 2007, MichaelJP remarked:
On Saturday lunchtime, queues for tickets in both LUL booking halls were
horrendous. This seems not to have been thought out properly at all.

The queues were horrendous in the old booking hall, and were horrendous in
the new one from the day it reopened. They just don't seem to want to put
enough staff on duty.

I've seen these massive queues, why are there so many people who can't use
the automatic machines that take cash or cards?

Are they buying specialised tickets or some other reason?

There are often big queues at the machines as well (I regularly fail to
find one free to top up my Oyster, so wait and do it somewhere else).

Given that it's busy all day long these people aren't commuters. I think
they must be mainly irregular passengers who are intimidated by the
machines and prefer to buy from a person.
--
Roland Perry

"Peter Lawrence" wrote in message
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First impressions of the Thameslink platforms at St Pancras which
opened on time this morning (after what must have been a massive
tidy-up operation).


Closed today during evening rush hour because of overcrowding, what a great
start!

María

"María" wrote in message
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"Peter Lawrence" wrote in message
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First impressions of the Thameslink platforms at St Pancras which
opened on time this morning (after what must have been a massive
tidy-up operation).


Closed today during evening rush hour because of overcrowding, what a
great start!

María

The Thameslink platforms at St.Pancras (Platforms A & B) opened for business
on Sunday 9th December, and I travelled from there about 10am
I think the first services were about 9.30am according to posters with early
morning services bustituted from West Hampstead to Blackfriars

Kings Cross Thameslink closed at end of service about 1am on the morning of
Sunday 9th December 2007