On 23 Mar, 23:59, (Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:
In article , (Roland

Perry) wrote:
In message , at 18:29:30 on
Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Clive D. W. Feather
remarked:

Every train at King's Cross has a booked and timetabled platform.

Do they still have that station announcer who yells at people (to
go back to the concourse) who "guess" the platform before it's
published?

Not tonight they didn't. I was one of a group waiting for the signallers
to get off their arses and announce that the 19:15 was going from 6. It
had to be; there was no other 8-car FCC train to be seen. Eventually they
put it on the screens at 19:09.

They seem to be announcing the 1915 rather late these days. Even
though it's in the platform from about 1900, they often don't announce
it until about 1905, by which time there can be a hundred regular
passengers hanging around at the platform end.

I think it may be related to the fact that the 1903 to Leeds often
leaves from the opposite platform 6; GNER often close the gates to
platforms 6/7 until after their train departs (not always possible if
hundreds of arriving FCC passengers need to leave platform 7 at the
same time).

PaulO