In message
, at
01:23:03 on Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Mr Thant
remarked:
If you arrive on any of platforms 1-7 [1] then first you may have to
walk the entire length of the train to the concourse, and then the
obvious route is to exit the station at the front. From there, although
St Pancras is "just across the road", you then end up walking the entire
length of the original shed, before starting a trip down into the bowels
for the low-level station.

There's a side entrance from the King's Cross concourse that recently
reopened that takes you between hoardings to somewhere near the middle
side entrance to St Pancras. It makes the walk slightly shorter. I
think you just turn right just before the Travel Centre and then it's
hard to not follow the route.

There are some other short-cuts (I often take the indoor staircase that
comes out by the temporary pub and statue, when heading for the Midland
platforms).

However, the generic advice available for passengers is very likely to
assume they take the "most obvious" route using front doors rather than
side doors. So that's where these extended transfer times come from.
--
Roland Perry