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![]() "Martin Rich" wrote The concourse at Euston does work well, and I've read several accounts of the old Euston station being cramped and poky behind the arch. But some aspects of the present station are very dated. In particular the taxi rank is at the bottom of a steep staircase, reflecting an approach of separating pedestrians and road vehicles on different levels, which was fashionable in the 1960s. Presumably disabled passengers weren't given much thought at the time, and if you had heavy luggage or a push-chair the assumption was that a porter would help you. Disabled passengers who arrive (or depart) by taxi can book Passenger Assistance and be met by the buggy. They are then taken by a weird and wonderful route through the bowels of the station and delivered to their train [1], which they can board before the platform is announced on the main departure indicator on the concourse. In the reverse direction there seems to be an understanding that the buggy takes passengers to the taxi drop-off point, where they are put into a cab, jumping the taxi queue. [1] Last time my father and I used this we shared the buggy with another passenger, so were taken to platform 18 first, then back through subterranean Euston to platform 3 for my father's train. Peter |
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