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Whenever people (who are able to go up the stairs and down the escalator) take the shortcut via the lift PLEASE spare a thought for people like me who can’t uses escalators who have no choice but to go up to the ticket hall level and back down to access the northbound TL platform!!
I’ve read something on twitter that says every station in the core will have a train waiting and they will all set off at 6:30, is there any truth to that or are the first trains leaving paddington at 6:33 and Abbey Wood at 6:30
l’m 99% both would be 1 journey, it doesn’t matter where you originally tapped in for it to count as a OSI. Imagine it like this, somewhere in the gate line setting there’s a checkbox labeled OSI, if it’s checked it asks for the other gate line(s) that it’s an OSI with.
On the tube platforms at Farringdon some parts are step free to train but at other parts there’s a massive gap that I can’t get across in my chair and I do pretty big gaps with no problem.
Rant time.
I can foresee a problem with the lift layout. People who are on the southbound TL platform...
if a wheelchair user did go round the loop it would create a problem as southbound the level boarding point is the 2nd carriage and northbound it’s the 5th (the same carriage north and southbound). so if they were to go round it they would be on the 2nd carriage going north which means there’s a...
Anyone know what the left and right ramps are for (the middle is for wheelchair users), they are on on platforms 1 and 2 at Blackfriars and at no other core stations.