Realised I'd been doing Waterloo to St. Pancras wrong for years...

[NCT]

I think I waited about 6 and 4 minutes for the Bakerloo and Victora services respectively, I don't know if that's much longer than usual. It's also a few minutes longer to the high level EMR platforms partly due to the two escalators nearest the EMR platforms being down only.
But I was also really put off by the extreme overcrowding and heat on the underground, it reminded me why I try to avoid it. It was a real struggle to get on at all and to get off at my stops.

Sounds like you used the northern end of the Vic line?

 

[duffield]

Sounds like you used the northern end of the Vic line?

Not sure which bit you mean by "the Northern end", but the bit I used was all in zone 1. As per previous posts, the route was Waterloo to Oxford Circus on the Bakerloo line, then Oxford Circus to Kings Cross St. Pancras on the Victoria line.

 

[NCT]

Not sure which bit you mean by "the Northern end", but the bit I used was all in zone 1. As per previous posts, the route was Waterloo to Oxford Circus on the Bakerloo line, then Oxford Circus to Kings Cross St. Pancras on the Victoria line.

Were you at the front of the train (the northern end when travelling northbound)?

 

[duffield]

Were you at the front of the train (the northern end when travelling northbound)?

Right, the northern end of the train, not the route!

I really can't remember, it was so overcrowded and stressful at Oxford circus and waves of people kept coming onto the platform so I was pretty much forced along the platform to where it was slightly less awful, possibly ended up at the back of the train.