Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
And another factor I discovered arriving at King's Cross Thameslink on
Thursday at 17:30 (on time) was that the platforms are barely passable to
the exits because of people waiting for other Thameslink trains. I know
the platforms are narrow but it was a real struggle. This seemed to be a
feature of all Thameslink platforms from Blackfriars to King's Cross
Thameslink.


Except for City Thameslink, which I've never found to be overcrowded even at
peak periods. Though the platforms are much deeper than KX Thameslink, and
there's an exit at both ends at the platform.

I agree with your description of King's Cross Thameslink in the evening
peak. When I commuted from City Thameslink to Cambridge I would ride in the
carriage which stopped by the King's Cross Thameslink exit to minimise the
time taken to get off the platform.

I read somewhere (Modern Railways, I think) that the new Thameslink Midland
Road station (for Thameslink 2000) will have just two platforms. I dread to
think how overcrowded the northbound one will become at 1730, with both
Bedford and King's Lynn services departing from the main platform.

Just think how many people wait on platform 8 at KX for the 1745 to King's
Lynn, add it to the number of people in the existing crush at the same time
at King's Cross Thameslink northbound, and you've got an almighty scrum,
even with wider and longer platforms. Surely someone has thought of this?

PaulO