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Colin Rosenstiel · March 25th 07, 02:01 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article . com,
(Paul Oter) wrote:

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).

That certainly wasn't the problem on Friday. The 19:07 Peterborough was
on 7 and the stock for the 19:15 had been there (on 6) more than long
enough to clear the incoming passengers.

On Thursday the 19:15 was on 7 and announced just after 19:00, so it
seems the signallers aren't even consistent.

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Colin Rosenstiel