They were working on the escalators from the lower circulating area to the Northern line (City branch)/Victoria line. The current work involves work on the escalators from ticket hall level.Which escalators are being worked on at Euston? There's been intermittent closures for the last two years with the escalators from the -2 level down to the platforms being refurbished. My reckoning was that they'd done three of the four escalators, with one still to be done, is that the one they're working on now?
I passed through Kings Cross at 06:30 today, and the gatelines at the tube ticket hall were open for entry and exit.
Making everyone enter via the Northern ticket hall is not a "one-way" system unless you make everyone exit via the Tube ticket hall, which it is of course impossible to do.
The passageway from the Northern ticket hall is quite narrow, and there is frequently congestion with conflicting flows of people in different directions.
Well "one way" was TFL's wording, not mine. There was no entry via the gates you get to if entering via the steps at the front of the station. Is that the tube ticket hall gates?
Around 1/2 mile if a passenger arrives at the rear of a mainline train and walks to the signposted entrance to the Northern Line??
I haven't laughed that much for months. Maximum that walk would take you five minutes. Absolute maximum.
I haven't laughed that much for months. Maximum that walk would take you five minutes. Absolute maximum.
I don't know so much, from the last carriage of a mainline train to the Victoria Line probably is about that. Half a mile is 800m, a 12-car 365 is 250m long even before you start.
The one-way system is because the "old" ticket hall gets very overcrowded in a morning anyway, even without all the passengers from Euston, which is why TfL have deliberately signposted people away from that ticket hall.
I passed through Kings Cross St Pancras yesterday morning at 0800 and heard announcements about no entry via the Tube ticket hall. Thankfully I needed the Northern Line so was happy to use the Northern Ticket Hall but had I needed the Victoria Line then I wouldn't have been best pleased with a hike via the 'tourist' route!
Funny how everyone forgets the short walk across the square, past McDonald's and entry via the old Thameslink/Pentonville Road entrance...
Permission to take this a tad off topic but only a tad...Is there any escalater access from the Euston Ticket hall to the mid level at all or is it totally reliant on stairs?
And what about in tother direction from Mid Level to ticket hall?
If arriving in a low numbered platform and specifically wanting the Victoria Line, I'd still say it's worth it though... particularly if there is a possibility of congestion through the main entrance.Trying to get across that pedestrian crossing by La Scala is more hassle than it is worth
Ticket hall down to mid level is currently one escalator (usually two). Coming back up it's the normal two at the moment.