"Jack Taylor" wrote in message
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Roland Perry wrote:

Depends where you are starting from. Surely most of the passengers
arrive either by road at the front of the station, or by tube (which
is also at the front of the station). The only direction that the
suburban platforms are closer is St Pancras.

Yes - *currently*. We are talking about the future, when the new main
concourse is built between the GN hotel and the suburban platforms, the
new LUL northern concourse is open, adjacent to it, and the current
"temporary" mess at the front of KX has been demolished and landscaped.
The main route then will be through the new LUL concourse (of from
adjacent taxi points) into the new mainline concourse. Very little traffic
will use the existing entrance/exit at the front of the station, mainly
foot passengers exiting to Euston Road/Pentonville Road/Grays Inn Road or
those using that entrance to LUL. All travellers arriving at King's Cross
will be funneled through the new west side entrance, so the suburban
platforms (the only ones for which access will be "on the level" from the
new ticket office) will actually be far more accessible than the mainline
platforms, for which it will be necessary to go up to the waiting area on
the first floor, then across the new footbridge in the centre of the
station and down to platform level using either escalators or lifts.

I don't think you've got this right Jack; in the LB Camden planning info,
there is a document that discusses all the details of passenger movement.
It shows quite clearly that the overbridge will be a one way route onto the
platforms for departures, but that the main passenger flows will be to/from
the south (existing) end of the platforms, and mostly onto the forecourt:

http://tinyurl.com/2csubh

Its a good read for anyone who has previously only seen the very brief
Network Rail pamphlet:

http://www.networkrail.co.uk/documen...ossLeaflet.pdf

Paul