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[email protected] · February 28th 11, 11:38 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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(Mizter T) wrote:

"Mizter T" wrote:

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In article ,
(Mizter T) wrote:

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I don't think I've ever been to Kings Cross St Pancras tube
needing to get a ticket/top up Oyster without queues at similar to
that. I always try to have enough credit on Oyster to escape the
place before needing to top up. Westminster isn't much better
either, mainly because not enough windows are staffed most of the
time.

Head to the northern ticket hall which never seems to be that busy,
or to the FCC ticket machines - the ones in St Pancras (for
Thameslink) certainly 'do' Oyster (as do the ticket windows I
believe), not so sure about the ones at Kings Cross suburban.

So the answer is to walk a long way in the wrong direction. Terrific!

Yes Colin, it's all doom and gloom. If the KX suburban side
ticket machines do in fact 'do' Oyster, then I expect the
complaint would be about how that'd be no good when FCC trains
arrive in the main KX trainshed.

You wait till the new King's Cross is complete with the barrier line
across platforms 0-8!

Sorry, that's a bit unnecessary. Personally I'd prefer to go a
little bit out of my way in order to avoid somewhere where I knew
there'd almost certainly be a queue. I'd definitely agree with the
notion that there should be more ticket windows open in the main
and western ticket halls at KXSP - indeed I think it'd be great if
there was a TfL Travel Info Centre actually in St Pancras station
(but I guess the rent would be too high) - but dealing with things
as they are (rather than how they should be), I'd opt for one of
the workarounds and advise others to do the same.

My point is that nutters like us here would know that but the great
majority of punters wouldn't and would be put off using rail yet again.

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Colin Rosenstiel