You're at Notting Hill Gate and want to go to Kings Cross with heavy luggage

[AnkleBoots]

You're at Notting Hill Gate with heavy luggage and want to go to Kings Cross.

How can you know whether the next train will arrive on platform 2 at Edgware Road or platform 3?

Platform 3 involves steps and platform 2 doesn't.

If you know it's platform 3, you can wait for the following train.

 

[AlbertBeale]

You're at Notting Hill Gate with heavy luggage and want to go to Kings Cross.

How can you know whether the next train will arrive on platform 2 at Edgware Road or platform 3?

Platform 3 involves steps and platform 2 doesn't.

If you know it's platform 3, you can wait for the following train.

There is a standard pattern which is generally kept to, of all Districts to Edgware Road using one platform there, and all terminating Circles using the other - so you just have to choose the right one. Only problem is, I can't off-hand remember which way round it is...

 

[AlbertBeale]

There is a standard pattern which is generally kept to, of all Districts to Edgware Road using one platform there, and all terminating Circles using the other - so you just have to choose the right one. Only problem is, I can't off-hand remember which way round it is...

Aha - looks like it's the District you need from NHG to carry on eastbound from the same platform at E Rd. From a quick glance at old threads, it seems when they broke the Circle Line it was mostly standardised the other way round, but it switched a couple of years back.

 

[Dstock7080]

Don’t try this on Boxing Day 26 December, as there are (now) no District services beyond High Street Kensington,

 

[bluegoblin7]

You're at Notting Hill Gate with heavy luggage and want to go to Kings Cross.

How can you know whether the next train will arrive on platform 2 at Edgware Road or platform 3?

Platform 3 involves steps and platform 2 doesn't.

If you know it's platform 3, you can wait for the following train.

The only way you can guarantee a step-free journey to King’s Cross is to use the Inner Rail/anti clockwise service.

Whilst all District line trains are booked to reverse via platform 2, this can be (and often is) altered at short notice in the best interests of the service.

 

[pelli]

The only way you can guarantee a step-free journey to King’s Cross is to use the Inner Rail/anti clockwise service.

Whilst all District line trains are booked to reverse via platform 2, this can be (and often is) altered at short notice in the best interests of the service.

(Looking at carto.metro...) If you do end up on platform 3, could you (for certain) change cross-platform to go westbound one stop to Paddington (H&C), then cross-platform again to return on an eastbound train to King's Cross?

 

[yorkie]

(Looking at carto.metro...) If you do end up on platform 3, could you (for certain) change cross-platform to go westbound one stop to Paddington (H&C), then cross-platform again to return on an eastbound train to King's Cross?

Yes it may take a while but it would be possible to do that

 

[AlbertBeale]

Yes it may take a while but it would be possible to do that

Of course - brilliant - and no doubt quicker than going all the way round anti-clockwise...

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Of course - brilliant - and no doubt quicker than going all the way round anti-clockwise...

Yes, it would be.

 

[USBT]

The only way you can guarantee a step-free journey to King’s Cross is to use the Inner Rail/anti clockwise service.

Seeing as it’s not step free to the platforms at NHG, I’d say the only step free journey would be by bus. That’s two buses, or the 27 to Paddington (for the H&C station) or Warren St. (for the Victoria line, with one step up at the station entrance).