In article , Roland Perry
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I can't see why taking people a hundred yards further north to start
with helps very much.
For the Circle, it won't.
Won't help very much, presumably.

Yes, that's what I meant.

The main exit from the Northern Line will be from the western end via
stairs and then two flights of escalators to the Northern Ticket Hall.
The horizontal reach of these escalators will cover much of the
distance involved (at present, from the Northern Line you follow a
hairpin to end up almost where you started).
Trying to visualise this. At the moment there's one long escalator
down, then you turn back for a short one to platform level.

Right.

Where about on the train is that (let's say you are catching one to
London Bridge).

The bottom of the short escalator is somewhat east of the front of the
(southbound) train. The top of the long escalator is about 20m west of
there. In fact, this escalator is diagonally across the Northern Line so
that, to a first approximation, it lies over the rear car of a
northbound train standing in the platform.

If that's the rear of the train, then the front will indeed be closer
to Euston with the potential of a short-cut from the front of the train
to the northern ticket hall.

You seem to be back to front. The new stairway up to the new escalators
will start somewhere about carriage 5 of a southbound train. At surface
level it's just south of the Great Northern Hotel.

For the Piccadilly Line there will be a second set of escalators,
starting at the north end of the platforms;
[...]
Sounds like quite a dog-leg to get back to platforms 1-8.

To platform 1, perhaps (the Piccadilly platforms are roughly under
platforms 2 and 4), but it'll bring you out in the new main line ticket
hall.

Might be a quicker route to St Pancras, though. Are there plans to have
tunnels from the Northern Ticket hall to inside the St Pancras complex

I'm afraid I don't know.

That leaves only the Victoria Line exiting through the existing
concourse.
Are they proposing to close the Picc/Northern escalator shaft to the
existing concourse?

Sorry, I wasn't clear.

As far as I know, none of the existing exits will close. "second set of
escalators" above meant a second set for use by Piccadilly Line
passengers. The existing set will remain. And my comment about the
Victoria Line could perhaps have been better phrased. The existing
escalators to the existing concourse will remain, or passengers can use
the part of the existing Thameslink tunnel that runs from the Victoria
Line to the Piccadilly Line, and then the new passageway from the latter
to the Northern Ticket Hall.

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