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King's Cross entrance to Underground to close
On 26 Jan, 12:27, wrote: In article , (Mizter T) wrote: On 26 Jan, 09:54, Allan wrote: John Salmon wrote: Surprisingly, I don't think this has been posted here yet... Posters displayed at King's Cross indicate that the entrance to the Underground from within the main line station concourse - the one more or less opposite platform 7 - which seems to have been there for ever, at least within my recollection, is to close permanently from next Sunday, 1st February. I may be missing something, but this is a great pity. *It was so easy to get off an arriving train, and straight down the stairs into the underground. Fom 1 Feb, you have through the often crowded station concourse, out of the front of the station, merge in with everyone else coming into the station, and then down the stairs. All this so a lift can be installed. This seems very contrary. Come 2011/2012 when the new western concourse at King's Cross mainline station opens, then things would be changing anyway. I very much doubt that this entrance would be closing now were it not for these major forthcoming changes to the mainline station which will result in the current concourse disappearing. So what you're missing is the bigger picture of how things are to develop at King's Cross - this is just a stage in those developments. The new ticket hall won't change the shortest route to the tube platforms! True. In some earlier comments I mistakenly said that the new northern Tube ticket hall would become the primary entrance to the Tube from the new western concourse - as Roland Perry has pointed out elsewhere on this thread, there will in fact be a new passageway from the western concourse that leads into the existing (main) circular Tube ticket hall next to Euston Road. The exit from platforms 1-8 at the Cross will still be to the area where the concourse is now. There seems to be some dispute over whether passenger will be able to exit the mainline platforms over the footbridge into the western ticket hall or not. If that is to be possible, then there would be a covered route all the way into the Tube station - though yes, one that would involve getting up and then down from the footbridge. The other possibility is that there will be a way to walk around the southern (buffer-end) exits from platforms 1-8 within the station (i.e. under cover) to get round to the western concourse and hence the entrance to the Tube station. This is surely highly likely, as I rather doubt that the buffer-end exits would literally deposit people straight off the train and through the doors into the street. |
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