PhilD wrote:
Mrs Redboots wrote:

Will there be anything different to see? I take it the new St
Pancras station won't be open yet,

Correct. However, the box will be there, so you might see that.
Aside from that, there's probably nothing that can't be seen from the
Eastern Interim station or surrounding area.

See here for a good view:

http://www.ctrl.co.uk/photos/newdisplay.asp?ID=5368

Shame they can't find the £70 million.

Angus

In message , Angus Bryant
writes

See here for a good view:

http://www.ctrl.co.uk/photos/newdisplay.asp?ID=5368

Shame they can't find the £70 million.

Even more staggering is the cost. How can fitting out the platforms and
providing escalators possibly come to £70 million?

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Paul Terry

In article ,
(Paul Terry) wrote:

In message , Angus Bryant
writes

See here for a good view:

http://www.ctrl.co.uk/photos/newdisplay.asp?ID=5368

Shame they can't find the £70 million.

Even more staggering is the cost. How can fitting out the platforms and
providing escalators possibly come to £70 million?

It's mostly to pay highly-qualified and highly-paid people from all the
different bits of the privatised railway to talk to each other. :-(

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Colin Rosenstiel

Paul Terry wrote:
In message , Angus Bryant
writes

See here for a good view:

http://www.ctrl.co.uk/photos/newdisplay.asp?ID=5368

Shame they can't find the £70 million.

Even more staggering is the cost. How can fitting out the platforms
and
providing escalators possibly come to £70 million?

Don't forget that they have to provide dogs and small children as
well... gd&r

Curious; I had always remembered that you had to turn left (i.e. south)
from the northbound thameslink platform to get to the tunnel.

If the northern line runs under pentonville road, why/how do the
platforms have ex-lift shafts between them that you can see glimpses of
natural light, and air from? These can't surely be under the road -
there aren't any obvious large round holes in the road leading to the
platforms.

In article . com,
lonelytraveller writes
Curious; I had always remembered that you had to turn left (i.e. south)
from the northbound thameslink platform to get to the tunnel.

Down stairs, turn right, turn left into tunnel, tunnel verges right.

Result: you're heading north-northwest.

If the northern line runs under pentonville road, why/how do the
platforms have ex-lift shafts between them that you can see glimpses of
natural light, and air from? These can't surely be under the road -
there aren't any obvious large round holes in the road leading to the
platforms.

The *line* runs under Pentonville Road. The platforms are *west* of the
junction with York Road.

The five sets of platforms at KXSP/KXTL radiate out from a point:
Circle, Northern, Piccadilly, Victoria, Thameslink as you go clockwise.

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"lonelytraveller" wrote in
message ups.com...
If the northern line runs under pentonville road, why/how do the
platforms have ex-lift shafts between them that you can see glimpses of
natural light, and air from? These can't surely be under the road -
there aren't any obvious large round holes in the road leading to the
platforms.

As Clive has said, the line follow Pentonville Road to east of King's Cross.
It then runs beneath part of King's Cross main-line station, with the
Northern Line platforms being beneath the construction site which currently
lies on the corner of Euston Road and Pancras Road. The big blue structure
in the middle of this site is above one of the former lift shafts.

Is it still blue? I thought that was just a temporary weather
protection coating thing.

If thameslink platforms radiate from the same point as the other 4
pairs, why did they choose to make the connection a ridiculously long
foot tunnel, rather than exiting onto the point?

On 16 May 2005 16:38:34 -0700, "lonelytraveller"
wrote:

If thameslink platforms radiate from the same point as the other 4
pairs, why did they choose to make the connection a ridiculously long
foot tunnel, rather than exiting onto the point?

And then what? You jump down a big vertical shaft to reach the tube
platforms?