On 3 Oct, 01:30, MIG wrote:
On Oct 2, 9:11 pm, lonelytraveller



wrote:
Hmm. Could be that this is labelled incorrectly.

I always thought that the footbridges that crossed through the platform
tunnels were a feature of the Hampstead Line, and not the C&SL.

To me, this view looks like the bridge is about cross one of what is now the
C+ branch platforms, and on the otherside there would be a staircase down in
between the two platforms.

BTN

I thought that when I first read it, but when I next went through
Euston, I had a look at the northbound City branch platform, and there
are two large square holes high up the wall at the back of the
platform, about 1/2 way along the platform. The holes each look like
they would be the other side of the photo.

It can't be a cross bridge on the Hampstead line - there aren't any
holes like that on the platforms at Euston for that branch. Besides,
in the photo, there isn't a hole on the opposite side of the platform
tunnel - so the bridge would have had to have come down from mid air
over the platform. If it was like that it would still be pretty
unusual - more like a metropolitan line thing like at Farringdon,
where the stairs are over the platform itself, rather than off to the
side.

Isn't the northbound City branch platform the one that was built new
along with the Victoria line? Also, it was done up in the style of
the Victoria line, which I don't think matches the wall and lighting
in the picture (could be wrong).

I don't know if bridges cutting through the platform are a feature of
any particular line, but more a feature of a station which doesn't
have an island platform or has platforms diagonally above each other.
(Although I think Oxford Circus Central Line has one across one side
of the island platform.)

So, anyway, there are some stations like that on the Charing Cross
branch. Euston Charing Cross branch has got an island platform though.

The northbound City branch is the one where the platform was widened
over the southbound tracks - the tunnel containing the platform is
still the same as far as I know; the large holes in the wall are
certainly still there half way along on the platform side, up in the
air.