On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Basil Jet wrote:

Tom Page wrote:

I've just got approval to post the following pictures from a site visit
to the Northern Ticket Hall at King's Cross St. Pancras station. Enjoy!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tompage...7621872604905/

What a waste of technology...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tompage...7621872604905/
Four of the platforms show identical destinations for the next three
trains, but tell you the time of the trains without telling you the time
now. The westbound Picc gives you the time of two trains to T4, but no
indication of the time of the next train to T5. The northbound Northern
Line happens to currently give you time of the next Mill Hill East
train, but often would give you no clue. I bet that thing cost them
100k, but it's partly wasted because LUL always think about platforms
and trains and never look inside the head of a passenger.

Would you want this man inside your head:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tompage...7621872604905/

?

The train running tunnels are dug by TBMs, which have a big spinning
slicey wheel thing, and hence these tunnels are circular in cross-section.
How are the passageways dug, and why are they also circular?

tom

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