"Matthew Dickinson" wrote in message
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The gateline at Waterloo mainline seems to be finished apart from a
few ceiling tiles and and some fencing.

The gates have now been switched on,but are not in use yet.
The ticket machines have been fitted with a black rectangular pad
which I think is a smartcard reader.

The peak hour subway has now been closed until 'further notice' for
installation of the gateline there.

I had to use the gate on Platform 19 on Thursday!

MaxB

On Dec 12, 11:03*pm, "Batman55" wrote:
"Matthew Dickinson" wrote in message

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The gateline at Waterloo mainline seems to be finished apart from a
few ceiling tiles and and some fencing.

The gates have now been switched on,but are not in use yet.
The ticket machines have been fitted with a black rectangular pad
which I think is a smartcard reader.

The peak hour subway has now been closed until 'further notice' for
installation of the gateline there.

I had to use the gate on Platform 19 on Thursday!

MaxB

I had to use Platform 18/19 gates last week - believe they were
activated early that week.

The Platform 20 signage is also now in place - any ideas when the
platform will be in use?

wrote

On Dec 12, 11:03*pm, "Batman55" wrote:

I had to use the gate on Platform 19 on Thursday!

I had to use Platform 18/19 gates last week - believe they were
activated early that week.

I used them about 1300 on Wednesday (10th Dec '08) and judging by the
number of 'helpful' staff they had just been switched on.

Congratulations, BTW, to the ticket staff at Richmond who asked whether
I had a Freedom pass before letting me buy a ODTC with Senior Railcard.

Is there such a thing as a Off-peak Single ? I noticed that the
boundary zone 6 extension was an Anytime Single which seems strange
given the ODTC itself was Off-peak

--
Mike D

It is switched on and it still seems to be causing quite a few
problems. I may be wrong here but are the gates working in both
directions at the same time? That's what it looked like the last few
days to me. They really need to make sure that people from 17/18 exit
via platform 19 as we almost didn't make our trains due to the high
number of people trying to get off via the small number of gates at
17/18.

In article 51cff96c-24a0-4cc1-b500-09d23f112817
@q36g2000vbn.googlegroups.com, says...
It is switched on and it still seems to be causing quite a few
problems. I may be wrong here but are the gates working in both
directions at the same time? That's what it looked like the last few
days to me. They really need to make sure that people from 17/18 exit
via platform 19 as we almost didn't make our trains due to the high
number of people trying to get off via the small number of gates at
17/18.

There is an article in the current SWT e-Motion magazine which suggests
that the gates aren't bi-directional:

"Controllers will switch the direction of the gates to make more
available for passengers coming into or out of the station, depending on
the time of day. ?In the morning rush, when we have more than 40,000
people leaving the station in one hour, most gates will be in exit
mode,? says Peter Hurst. ?The new gate line should smooth the passenger
flow, especially at peak times.?

http://www.southwesttrains.co.uk/SWT...Story/_Issue28
_InsideStory_pg2.htm

I expect that the automatic wide gates will be bi-directional though
based on other stations.

Duncan

In article ,
(Duncan) wrote:

I expect that the automatic wide gates will be bi-directional
though based on other stations.

Which other station? None of the wide gates I know are bi-directional but
they are mainly FCC or TfL gates.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

In article ,
writes
I expect that the automatic wide gates will be bi-directional
though based on other stations.
Which other station? None of the wide gates I know are bi-directional but
they are mainly FCC or TfL gates.

How about the FCC gates at Huntingdon?

For each of the two gatelines, the two narrow gates are set for one
direction or the other (usually both the same way in the peaks, one each
way at quiet times), but the wide gate is always left in
first-come-first-served mode, so in the peak it is the *only* way to
pass the gateline in the contra-peak direction *but* remains available
for peak travellers needing it.

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On 13 Dec, 08:38, sweek wrote:
It is switched on and it still seems to be causing quite a few
problems. I may be wrong here but are the gates working in both
directions at the same time? That's what it looked like the last few
days to me. They really need to make sure that people from 17/18 exit
via platform 19 as we almost didn't make our trains due to the high
number of people trying to get off via the small number of gates at
17/18.

No standard gates that I've ever come across are bi-directional at the
same time - that would cause a total nightmare with people walking
head-first into each other all the time! Instead gates can simply be
switched from one direction to the other as required by traffic flow.

In message
, at
06:07:10 on Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Mizter T remarked:
No standard gates that I've ever come across are bi-directional at the
same time - that would cause a total nightmare with people walking
head-first into each other all the time!

The 30p turnstiles at station toilets.
--
Roland Perry

On 13 Dec, 14:39, Roland Perry wrote:

In message
, at
06:07:10 on Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Mizter T remarked:

No standard gates that I've ever come across are bi-directional at the
same time - that would cause a total nightmare with people walking
head-first into each other all the time!

The 30p turnstiles at station toilets.


Good point! I have almost walked into people using these - or more to
the point they've almost walked into me in a distracted fashion whilst
they were on their way out.

I must say that I'm a fan (if that's not too odd a thing to say!) of
the facilities at St. Pancras - very clean and free to use. I suppose
my usage of them is being subsidised by frequent Eurostar and EMT
travellers (such as yourself), stations shoppers and Champagne
quaffers - so thanks!