Clive Page wrote:

As others have pointed out in this thread, you can still use the
original routes to reach King's Cross, and of course St.Pancras.


Can you? I can't even find them or any signs pointing to them, never
mind actually using them. (In fact, I'm pretty sure the old passages
to St Pancras, and the old escalator into the heart of the old Kings
Cross concourse are all long gone.)

On 30/12/2012 09:47, solar penguin wrote:
Can you? I can't even find them or any signs pointing to them, never
mind actually using them. (In fact, I'm pretty sure the old passages
to St Pancras, and the old escalator into the heart of the old Kings
Cross concourse are all long gone.)

Ah yes, those are, unfortunately. What I meant by "original" was the
routes that you could use say 5 years ago, via the Western Ticket Hall
before the recent upgrades (or downgrades) to the KX-St.Pancras complex.

In message , at 21:47:20 on Sun, 30
Dec 2012, Clive Page remarked:
What I meant by "original" was the routes that you could use say 5
years ago, via the Western Ticket Hall before the recent upgrades (or
downgrades) to the KX-St.Pancras complex.

But the Western Ticket Hall is part of that [up|down]grade.
--
Roland Perry

Clive Page wrote:
On 30/12/2012 09:47, solar penguin wrote:
Can you? I can't even find them or any signs pointing to them, never
mind actually using them. (In fact, I'm pretty sure the old passages
to St Pancras, and the old escalator into the heart of the old Kings
Cross concourse are all long gone.)

Ah yes, those are, unfortunately. What I meant by "original" was the
routes that you could use say 5 years ago, via the Western Ticket Hall
before the recent upgrades (or downgrades) to the KX-St.Pancras complex.

Is the Western Ticket Hall the one near the SSL platforms? If so, I
prefer to avoid that whenever possible. The long walk is preferable
than trying to fight my way with a bulky suitcase through confused
French crowds fresh off the Eurostar, who all seem to end up there
looking lost and/or forming long queues right across the hall to buy
single cash fares at the ticket office.

In message
, at
16:26:41 on Sun, 30 Dec 2012, solar penguin
remarked:
Can you? I can't even find them or any signs pointing to them, never
mind actually using them. (In fact, I'm pretty sure the old passages
to St Pancras, and the old escalator into the heart of the old Kings
Cross concourse are all long gone.)

Ah yes, those are, unfortunately. What I meant by "original" was the
routes that you could use say 5 years ago, via the Western Ticket Hall
before the recent upgrades (or downgrades) to the KX-St.Pancras complex.

Is the Western Ticket Hall the one near the SSL platforms?

Took me a while to decode SSL. I'd call them the Circle/Met platforms.

If so, I prefer to avoid that whenever possible. The long walk is
preferable than trying to fight my way with a bulky suitcase through

Are you off the Eurostar too, or from the Midland Main Line.

One way to avoid the worst of that crowd (but admittedly not all of it)
is to take a diversion through the Eurostar departure area, but that
isn't stepless down to the eastern end of the western ticket hall.

confused French crowds fresh off the Eurostar, who all seem to end up
there looking lost and/or forming long queues right across the hall to
buy single cash fares at the ticket office.

I agree that the queuing there is a disgrace, and has been from almost
the day it opened.
--
Roland Perry

On 31/12/2012 00:26, solar penguin wrote:
Is the Western Ticket Hall the one near the SSL platforms? If so, I
prefer to avoid that whenever possible. The long walk is preferable
than trying to fight my way with a bulky suitcase through confused
French crowds fresh off the Eurostar, who all seem to end up there
looking lost and/or forming long queues right across the hall to buy
single cash fares at the ticket office.

I somewhat agree. It seems to me that the new St.Pancras concourse has
the highest concentration of wheely-bags in Europe, all of them towed at
exactly the right distance to trip up any passing commuter.

--
Clive Page