On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Neil Williams wrote:

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:37:06 -0000, "John Rowland"
wrote:

I suspect customs etc at Waterloo will be mothballed rather than removed,
because they will want somewhere to offload Johnny Foreigner if an incident
closes the Stratford / St Pancras line.

Kensington Olympia?

Okay, i give up. Why are there customs and immigration facilities at
Kensington Olympia?

tom

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"Tom Anderson" wrote
Okay, i give up. Why are there customs and immigration
facilities at
Kensington Olympia?

They're in the huts and other buildings on the Northbound
platform at Kensington. They were there as a contingency plan,
but so far I think, never used.
Nev

"Nev Arthur" wrote in
message ...
"Tom Anderson" wrote
Okay, i give up. Why are there customs and immigration
facilities at
Kensington Olympia?

They're in the huts and other buildings on the Northbound
platform at Kensington. They were there as a contingency plan,
but so far I think, never used.

Wouldn't like 24 coaches of angry visitors getting onto the 3tph district
service from Kenny - then most of them would change at Earls Court for
district or Picadilly - argh!

It's easy to jump over the wall onto the district line too.

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On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:38:34 +0000, Tom Anderson
wrote:

Okay, i give up. Why are there customs and immigration facilities at
Kensington Olympia?

So a Eurostar can terminate there in the event of Waterloo being
unavailable for any reason. I believe it has happened once or twice -
though ISTR that Customs and Excise didn't show any interest when it
did.

Neil

In message
Tom Anderson wrote:

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Neil Williams wrote:

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:37:06 -0000, "John Rowland"
wrote:

I suspect customs etc at Waterloo will be mothballed rather than
removed, because they will want somewhere to offload Johnny Foreigner
if an incident closes the Stratford / St Pancras line.

Kensington Olympia?

Okay, i give up. Why are there customs and immigration facilities at
Kensington Olympia?


because they will want somewhere to offload Johnny Foreigner if an incident
closes Waterloo.

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