View Single Post
  #25   Report Post  
Old January 11th 09, 02:06 PM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.railway
Mr Thant Mr Thant is offline
external usenet poster
 
First recorded activity at LondonBanter: Mar 2007
Posts: 973
Default DLR to Woolwich set to open this Saturday, 10 January

On 11 Jan, 12:37, Paul Corfield wrote:
There are two entrances from what I can tell from plans and photos.


There's an escalator heading west that takes you to one entrance
building by the town centre. There's another escalator heading east
that takes you to the other entrance building next door* to the NR
station entrance (only a short block west of the first entrance), and
this floor also has a footbridge over the NR line to the far NR
platform. East of the two escalators there's a set of stairs taking
you up to a floor that's level with the nearside NR platform, and in
turn has stairs up to the footbridge and exit level. Finally, there
are lifts at either end of the platform that take you up to the two
different entrance buildings.

It seems rather extravagant. They seem to have placed a very high
value on building the station a little further west to connect to the
town centre, rather than in the cutting alongside the railway station
(the tunnel portal is even further east) and having the entrance
there.

(* -ish. There's a listed building between them)

U