"Colin Rosenstiel" wrote in message
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lid (asdf) wrote:

Piccadilly Line: No service between Hyde Park Corner and Arnos Grove
and between Rayners Lane and Uxbridge

Why no Uxbridge service?

Kings Cross Underground Station is open for Metropolitan line trains
only

When will the Victoria and Northern platforms re-open? What reason is
there not to do so now?

Presumably any passengers using the Victoria or Northern lines would be
getting in the way of the rescue workers on the Piccadilly platforms.

Peter Smyth

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In article ,
lid (asdf) wrote:

Piccadilly Line: No service between Hyde Park Corner and Arnos Grove
and between Rayners Lane and Uxbridge

Why no Uxbridge service?

Kings Cross Underground Station is open for Metropolitan line trains
only

When will the Victoria and Northern platforms re-open? What reason is
there not to do so now?

Presumably any passengers using the Victoria or Northern lines would be
getting in the way of the rescue workers on the Piccadilly platforms.

I find that surprising, for the Victoria at least. It has separate
escalators even. Also the reports said the rescue work was having to take
place from the front of the train, i,e. Russell Square.

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Colin Rosenstiel

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In article ,
(Peter Smyth) wrote:

"Colin Rosenstiel" wrote in message
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In article ,
lid (asdf) wrote:

Piccadilly Line: No service between Hyde Park Corner and Arnos
Grove and between Rayners Lane and Uxbridge

Why no Uxbridge service?

Kings Cross Underground Station is open for Metropolitan line
trains only

When will the Victoria and Northern platforms re-open? What
reason is there not to do so now?

Presumably any passengers using the Victoria or Northern lines
would be getting in the way of the rescue workers on the
Piccadilly platforms.

I find that surprising, for the Victoria at least. It has separate
escalators even. Also the reports said the rescue work was having
to take place from the front of the train, i,e. Russell Square.

Then perhaps the reports are wrong. Many of them are still
contradictory, so it wouldn't surprise me. As for King's Cross St
Pancras, don't all the main escalators lead to the same tube ticket
hall? It seems to me perfectly reasonable that the people examining and
removing body parts from the tunnel should be able to bring them up into
an area to which the public don't have access. Possibly the Victoria
could be accessed via the Thameslink station, but I'm not sure what the
crowd control implications would be.
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Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

In article ,
(Richard J.) wrote:

I find that surprising, for the Victoria at least. It has separate
escalators even. Also the reports said the rescue work was having
to take place from the front of the train, i,e. Russell Square.

Then perhaps the reports are wrong. Many of them are still
contradictory, so it wouldn't surprise me. As for King's Cross St
Pancras, don't all the main escalators lead to the same tube ticket
hall? It seems to me perfectly reasonable that the people examining and
removing body parts from the tunnel should be able to bring them up into
an area to which the public don't have access. Possibly the Victoria
could be accessed via the Thameslink station, but I'm not sure what the
crowd control implications would be.

But the access was said to be via Russell Square, surely? The ticket hall
is common, insofar as it isn't a building site.

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Colin Rosenstiel

Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
In article ,
(Richard J.) wrote:

I find that surprising, for the Victoria at least. It has separate
escalators even. Also the reports said the rescue work was having
to take place from the front of the train, i,e. Russell Square.

Then perhaps the reports are wrong. Many of them are still
contradictory, so it wouldn't surprise me. As for King's Cross St
Pancras, don't all the main escalators lead to the same tube ticket
hall? It seems to me perfectly reasonable that the people
examining and removing body parts from the tunnel should be able
to bring them up into an area to which the public don't have
access. Possibly the Victoria could be accessed via the
Thameslink station, but I'm not sure what the crowd control
implications would be.

But the access was said to be via Russell Square, surely?

As I said, maybe those reports were wrong. The front of the train is
roughly half way between the two stations according to the diagram on
the BBC site, so it would make sense to tackle the job from both ends.
The photo currently at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4666771.stm shows
emergency workers at King's Cross.
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

In article ,
(Richard J.) wrote:

Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
In article ,
(Richard J.) wrote:

I find that surprising, for the Victoria at least. It has separate
escalators even. Also the reports said the rescue work was having
to take place from the front of the train, i,e. Russell Square.

Then perhaps the reports are wrong. Many of them are still
contradictory, so it wouldn't surprise me. As for King's Cross St
Pancras, don't all the main escalators lead to the same tube ticket
hall? It seems to me perfectly reasonable that the people
examining and removing body parts from the tunnel should be able
to bring them up into an area to which the public don't have
access. Possibly the Victoria could be accessed via the
Thameslink station, but I'm not sure what the crowd control
implications would be.

But the access was said to be via Russell Square, surely?

As I said, maybe those reports were wrong. The front of the train is
roughly half way between the two stations according to the diagram on
the BBC site, so it would make sense to tackle the job from both ends.
The photo currently at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4666771.stm shows
emergency workers at King's Cross.

I'm not sure what the photo proves one way or the other. The text says
"Recovery teams are working towards the back of the train to find bodies
and forensic clues in what Mr Trotter described as one of "the most
challenging" of the four bomb blast sites." which tends to the other view.

What we do know is that they cleared the main concourse on Friday to allow
the main line station to reopen and function (more or less) normally.

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Colin Rosenstiel