"nospam_lonelytraveller_nospam"
wrote

There's a wide sub surface walkway to just in front of kings cross
station from the overbridge at the former station, and its currently
disused. I'm sure they could do something useful with that, even if
its just adding a glossy entrance to the lighthouse building so you
don't need to cross that road junction.

When was it last in use? I imagine that after the Met and Circle lines moved
to their new station there wouldn't have been all that much interchange
to/from Great Northern suburban and Midland trains at Kings Cross Met (aka
KX Thameslink), although some passengers must have continued to change to
the tube lines. But IIRC the tunnel between KX Thameslink and the tube
station didn't open until the BedPan electrics started.

Peter

On Jul 31, 5:39*am, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, 1506 wrote:
On Jul 29, 3:28*pm, "Mortimer" wrote:
Now that the new station beneath St Pancras is open, is the intention to use
the old Thameslink station for something completely different (eg not
railway-related) and to remove / fill in the platforms? Or will it be left
as an emergency evacuation route?

Given the state of other unused stations on busy lines, e.g. St John's
Wood Metropolitan I think it is unlikely that the platform space will
be reclaimed. *However, given the location I think it would make a
great of sense to sink some large supporting pillars thru the old
platforms in order to construct some retail and office space above.
The airspace here would seem to be reasonably "high value".

At the moment, it's got a rubbish bar on top of it; it wouldn't seem to be
particularly high-value just yet. Doubtless, as King's Cross becomes more
desirable, it will.

To the west on Euston road there is some high value property. To the
south is the west end, Bloomsbury, etc. With the developments around
KX, St P. it is only a matter of time before Pentonvile Rd perks up!