On 26 Jan, 11:33, Roland Perry wrote:

In message
, at
03:14:45 on Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Mr Thant
remarked:

The Northern Ticket Hall opens in December this year,

As soon as that? Is it timed to co-incide with the opening of the Kent
Domestics. Will all the new escalators/passageways to the tube lines be
complete as well?

It's almost as if there's a masterplan at work! I think the timing is
intended to coincide with the arrival of the Kent high-speed trains at
St. P.


and I would hope will offer an indoor connection to KX.

The entrances to the northern hall will be quite close to the KX
Suburban platforms, and therefore a long de-tour.

The new tube entrance from KX Mainline will be from somewhere around the
current Ladies toilets, and will lead to the existing ticket hall in a
passage under the current ex-GNER ticket office. This will emerge into
the existing ticket hall in the same place as the passageway from the
soon-to-be-closed stairs.

Aha, that makes sense.