In message , at 11:38:04 on
Mon, 14 Feb 2011, Mizter T remarked:

Other London termini stations have gates and 12 car trains too - thus
far sky hasn't fallen in.

...which is much the same point that Martin Petrov was making upthread.

I think we almost all share this view. Although when Roy said "cope
with", I wonder if he meant "without a queue developing".
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Roland Perry