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12:29:17 on Mon, 27 Sep 2010, lonelytraveller
remarked:
The old Northern Line lift shafts are to the west of the new lift, and
according to Clive Feather's website there is an older emergency lift
(which is most likely to be in that vicinity). I wonder if this is a
connecting passageway to that emergency lift.

That's plausible, but why is it tiled and lit like a public area,
rather than a rough finish like an emergency access passage?

I don't know. How long is the passage? I've asked some other questions,
tacked onto your initial posting.

Also, what would be the point of a passage connecting two lift shafts
together, when its already fairly easy to get between the lifts at
platform level, and surface level?

Perhaps one or other of the (upper/lower) access points to the emergency
lift will be obscured by some other of the current works. Although one
might imagine that the new public lift could entirely obsolete the
emergency one.
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Roland Perry