On 2 Feb, 14:02, Tom Anderson wrote:

Let's make sure we're on the same wavelength here - are we talking about
this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...on_station_con...

Yep. Spacious, airy, practical and warm. Everything that a number of
other main termini are not.

Interesting, no, but then that's not what it's there for.

(now minus some of the shops)

All 3 of the "teepee" like ones around the pillars visible on the
photo above have gone. Makes quite a difference.

Neil

On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 06:06:36 -0800 (PST), Neil Williams put finger to
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On 2 Feb, 14:02, Tom Anderson wrote:

Let's make sure we're on the same wavelength here - are we talking about
this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...on_station_con...

Yep. Spacious, airy, practical and warm. Everything that a number of
other main termini are not.

Interesting, no, but then that's not what it's there for.

(now minus some of the shops)

All 3 of the "teepee" like ones around the pillars visible on the
photo above have gone. Makes quite a difference.

Where have the shops gone?

FWIW, I agree that the main hall at Euston is designed to be
practical, if uninteresting, but what made it increasingly impractical
was their inability to resist the temptation to turn it into
revenue-earning space. If they've finally realised that was an error,
it will at least make travelling via Euston less hassle even if it
doesn't do much to make it more enjoyable.

Mark
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On 2 Feb, 14:35, Mark Goodge wrote:

Where have the shops gone?

The CD shop has gone completely, while the other two have moved into
two new units situated where the two food outlets were under the
departure board.

Neil

On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 06:51:50 -0800 (PST), Neil Williams put finger to
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On 2 Feb, 14:35, Mark Goodge wrote:

Where have the shops gone?

The CD shop has gone completely, while the other two have moved into
two new units situated where the two food outlets were under the
departure board.

Which food outlets? And have they disappeared altogether, or have they
moved as well?

When travelling home from London, I often buy a sandwich or roll from
one of the vendors at the station and take it with me on the train, so
it's nice to have a good selection of food outlets.

Mark
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On 2 Feb, 15:01, Mark Goodge wrote:

Which food outlets?

The Pasty Shop, and I forget what was on the other side. They've
moved outside the station into temporary units.

Neil

On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Neil Williams wrote:

On 2 Feb, 15:01, Mark Goodge wrote:

Which food outlets?

The Pasty Shop, and I forget what was on the other side. They've moved
outside the station into temporary units.

Where the number of food places has increased - there's now also a
sausage-in-a-bun shop (small sausages, large prices, didn't seem to be
doing a roaring trade) and some other things.

tom

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with the day's foetid offerings. -- Tokugawa

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Neil Williams wrote:
On 2 Feb, 14:02, Tom Anderson wrote:

Let's make sure we're on the same wavelength here - are we talking about
this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...on_station_con...

Yep. Spacious, airy, practical and warm. Everything that a number of
other main termini are not.

King's Cross, you mean? Also gorgeous architectually, but a brute of a
place to actually use..

--
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Feng Shui: an ancient oriental art for extracting
money from the gullible (Martin Sinclair)

On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:08:56 +0000, Andrew Robert Breen put finger to
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In article ,
Neil Williams wrote:
On 2 Feb, 14:02, Tom Anderson wrote:

Let's make sure we're on the same wavelength here - are we talking about
this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...on_station_con...

Yep. Spacious, airy, practical and warm. Everything that a number of
other main termini are not.

King's Cross, you mean? Also gorgeous architectually, but a brute of a
place to actually use..

Kins Cross suffers badly from a combination of the split between the
main and suburban train sheds and creeping retailisation on the
concourse. The new concourse ought to improve both of those, at least
a bit.

It does seem that TPTB have woken up to the idea that filling every
available bit of floor space with retail units isn't actually a good
idea - they get in the way of people who don't want to use them, and
at busy times the crowds of travellers get in the way of those who do
want to use them.

Mark
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It does seem that TPTB have woken up to the idea that filling every
available bit of floor space with retail units isn't actually a good
idea - they get in the way of people who don't want to use them, and
at busy times the crowds of travellers get in the way of those who do
want to use them.


That is certainly apparent at Waterloo. A fairly large number of food
outlets have disappeared with the barrier project, and you can see the
trains again. I haven't noticed any major delays in getting a coffee etc
though, so they must have been a bit overprovisioned previously.

Paul S

On 2 Feb, 16:15, Mark Goodge wrote:
Kins Cross suffers badly from a combination of the split between the
main and suburban train sheds and creeping retailisation on the
concourse. The new concourse ought to improve both of those, at least
a bit.

I still think the ideal situation when they redevelop KX would be to
demolish the suburban shed and the somewhat ugly GN Hotel and build
another full-length train shed span next to the existing two. Failing
that, I never could understand why TPTB claimed more suburban
platforms were too expensive....KX used to at one point have several
more adjacent to the current shed (3+ more?)