On Mar 11, 4:23*pm, Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at 19:36:53 on Wed, 10 Mar
2010, Clive Page remarked:

St.Pancras is not a railway station but a shopping complex (with almost
incidentally a few railway stations scattered around the periphery).
This is the only explanation of the fact that the two upper-level
stations and the lower-level (Thameslink) one are so far away from each
other and all the tube lines.

I agree. I've seen the morning wave of commuters marching south along
the main shopping aisle (from the FCC and EMT stations to the western
ticket hall) and it just seems such a waste of time and energy that all
those people have to march all that way.

See my reply to Clive about the siting of the Thameslink box.

And (thread convergence) in a world where a fair number of people are
too fat, is getting them to walk it really a waste of their collective
energy? Indeed, a bit of exercise is in and of itself can be rather
energising...