On Dec 18, 12:53*pm, Ken Wheatley wrote:
On 2010-12-17 00:10:43 +0000, said:

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(1506) wrote:

I cannot fault the reconstruction of Liverpool
Street Station. *Would that our architects had taken the same care
with our other termini.

It was a stroke of genius to remove the step-free direct access from the
street to the platforms which made it easy to get bicycles on and off
trains and replace it with steps up and escalators or steps down!

I can. The old station had many flights of stairs up to the walkway
that ran the entire width of the station. Now there are far more
conflicting pedestrian routes, making it very difficult to get around
the concourse when it's busy.

My memory is of two separate concourses, divided by a single extra-
long platform which meant it was a long walk from one to the other
without using the footbridge. And Cambridge trains sometimes departed
from the western concourse and sometimes (especially on Sundays) from
the eastern one. I find it much simpler now, though the area outside
the Bishopsgate entrance can get very congested at busy times, with
lots of people waiting for buses and several retail kiosks in the
way.

PaulO