Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:
Helen Deborah Vecht typed

Tfl have a pdf somewhere giving the number of stairs at every station.
Maybe you can search for it.

Actually, it's an Excel spreadsheet you can get at:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tube/downloads...essibility.xls


Oh the irony! An accessibility document in a proprietary format!

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 23:47:50 +0100, Dave Newt
wrote:

Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:
Helen Deborah Vecht typed

Tfl have a pdf somewhere giving the number of stairs at every station.
Maybe you can search for it.

Actually, it's an Excel spreadsheet you can get at:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tube/downloads...essibility.xls


Oh the irony! An accessibility document in a proprietary format!

Excel Viewer is free.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=EN

Plus I know OpenOffice opens .xls files.

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James Farrar wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 23:47:50 +0100, Dave Newt
wrote:

Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:
Helen Deborah Vecht typed

Tfl have a pdf somewhere giving the number of stairs at every station.
Maybe you can search for it.
Actually, it's an Excel spreadsheet you can get at:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tube/downloads...essibility.xls

Oh the irony! An accessibility document in a proprietary format!

Excel Viewer is free.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=EN

Plus I know OpenOffice opens .xls files.

I know - I was going for (admittedly poor) humour over accuracy :-)

I've now looked at the Excel spreadsheet that was recommended. At
King's Cross I find the following:
"16,5 stairs down and Victoria Line Booking Hall" - Cell B-1178

I don't see a mention of a lift. Am I missing something?

Jim Mitchell



John B wrote:
wrote:
In late July we'll be coming into King's Cross Station with a fair
amount of luggage. Ideally we'd like to take the tube from there to
Southfields. What we haven't been able to determine from the available
information is whether we'd have multiple stairs to descend and climb
to do so (I know we'll have them at Southfields). I'd welcome advice
on what we'll encounter and whether we should just gulp and take a
taxi.

It seems to me that there are two possible routes
1) King's Cross - High Street Kensington - Southfields
2) King's Cross - Victoria - Southfields

Is either of these more or less a problem - it looks online as though
Victoria has more escalators?

There are lifts from the mainline station at KX to the Circle Line
concourse and also down to the Circle Line platforms (for High St
Kensington), whereas getting to the Victoria Line platforms at KX
requires a flight of stairs and an escalator.

Then at High Street Kensington, the District Line train to Southfields
will come on the *same* platform as the Circle Line train that you've
just left, whereas changing at Victoria will involve an escalator and a
flight of stairs.

The journey via High Street Kensington will be a bit, but not more than
10 mins, slower than the journey via Victoria. I'd strongly recommend
taking the Kensington route if you've got luggage.

Also, my research seems to indicate that an "oyster card" is the smart
thing for us to get for tube and bus travel during our week in London.
Does that make sense? If so, can I buy one at King's Cross?

Yes to both. As Helen says, online might be less hassle than at KX
laden with luggage.

You also need to think about how much travelling you're going to be
doing - an Oyster card comes in two varieties. It can either be a
Travelcard (a season ticket, in your case lasting a week) or
Pay-as-you-go (you put cash on it and then get money deducted per
journey).

If you're going to make more than about two Tube journeys a day within
central London, a Travelcard is a good idea; if you're going to make
fewer than that it will probably be cheaper and easier to get
Pay-as-you-go.

However, Pay-as-you-go is only valid on some ex-British Rail train
services (and is not valid on any ex-BR services from Wimbledon),
although it is valid on all trams, Tubes, buses and DLR trains, so if
you plan to use those then it complicates the picture again.

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wrote:
I've now looked at the Excel spreadsheet that was recommended. At
King's Cross I find the following:
"16,5 stairs down and Victoria Line Booking Hall" - Cell B-1178

I don't see a mention of a lift. Am I missing something?

Probably the fact that King's Cross has just been redeveloped. I don't
know the new layout inside out, but I'd guess the advice on here is
correct, and the spreadsheet is out of date.

One horrible thought - it is Kings Cross mainline station you are
arriving at and not Kings Cross Thameslink?
If the latter the advice given might need a rethink.

I'm pretty certain it's King's Cross mainline - we're coming from the
Leeds area.

wrote:
One horrible thought - it is Kings Cross mainline station you are
arriving at and not Kings Cross Thameslink?
If the latter the advice given might need a rethink.

yped


I'm pretty certain it's King's Cross mainline - we're coming from the
Leeds area.

It will be.

The nearest Underground entrance to the mainline platforms has stairs
and is for ticket holders only IIRC.

If you could somehow get that Oyster card before your trip, you would
have a shorter distance to walk with that luggage.

The staircases are short though.

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wrote in message
ups.com...
It seems to me that there are two possible routes
1) King's Cross - High Street Kensington - Southfields
2) King's Cross - Victoria - Southfields

You can also get the Piccadilly Line from Kings Cross to Earls Court and
change there..

Southfields is due to be getting lifts in a year or so..

Regards
Sunil

In message , Helen Deborah Vecht
wrote:

The nearest Underground entrance to the mainline platforms has stairs
and is for ticket holders only IIRC.

Not any longer, the ticket office is back down there now.

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