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Mizter T · February 15th 11, 10:14 AM posted to uk.transport.london

"Roland Perry" wrote:

In message , at 11:48:39 on
Mon, 14 Feb 2011, remarked:

Why not head along the passage towards the Northern ticket hall,
then up the stairs to emerge in the old upstairs concourse (which
will eventually be outdoors). Is there a sign on platform 8, or is
it necessary to find the main departure board from there (which
will disappear soon as that's going to be outdoors as well).

It's at the bottom of those stairs that the screen is needed. Up the
stairs for platforms 0-8, straight ahead for platforms 9-11.

Looking ahead to the final configuration, those stairs are mainly an
entrance to the Underground, being outdoors and the natural feed from the
barriers along the southern face of the station. To get to any of the
platforms will require an awkward U-turn back towards the "dome". So it's
pretty clear they want you to exit via the northern ticket hall and thence
to the mainline platforms via the new bridge, or rather more directly to
the suburban platforms.

I think we are all perhaps underestimating the extent to which there's
this clockwise one-way system. South along the mainline platforms through
the gates to the new plaza, and then through the domed area via the bridge
to the platforms. You can't get to the ticket office, suburban platforms
or St Pancras without that detour, and they seem quite keen to stop people
taking a short cut to the mainline platforms.

It's all fine and wonderful if the ECML is a faux airline and KGX a faux
airline terminal, but commuter trains in the main shed are not going to be
a good fit.

I wonder if I'm the only person who hasn't already firmly settled on the
view that the new KX is going to be a complete disaster?!