There is a tube, or you can walk across the road. Also with the new FCC station, just up the stairs
Also, MML don't like you on the platforms if you're not on the train.
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There is a tube, or you can walk across the road. Also with the new FCC station, just up the stairs
Also, MML don't like you on the platforms if you're not on the train.
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Direct passage from the Midland Road ticket hall
Yep definately. The champagne bar on the platform level will be open on the 14th, just a think piece of glass separating you from the Trains. YOu could stand at Europe's longest champagne bar and admire the restoration! You'll be able to virtually walk the entire length of the Barlow Shed. There are a few shops open nearer the Midland Mainline area to keep you amused!
There is a direct link from the Underground to the station, currently boarded up but when the station opens, boarding will be taken away and you'll be able to walk directly into the "Arcade" area, which is a few shops, Eurostar ticketing and checkin areas.
FCC station doesnt open until Sunday 9th December 07 so only about a month to go! Midland Road is to the public with buses stopping there, so there's plently of opportunities!
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The Champagne bar is actually very small. It's the drinking area that's long.
I had a glass of De Nauroy (at £7.50, one of the two cheapest on the wine list) to toast the new station this evening. I was amazed at how much of the old undercroft is now opened up and is light and airy.
I sat and watched the Eurostar trains glide in and out, just the other side of the glass panel, as I enjoyed my bubbly. What spoiled the whole thing for me was the slight fug, nauseating smell, and sting in the eye of diesel fumes drifting into Barlow's magnificent train shed from the smokey old Midland Mainline trains at their platforms under their low flat roof tacked onto the front of Barlow's superb structure.
This is an appalling design oversight.
There really should be full-height glass walls sealing the renewed trainsehed from the MML station. That magnificent powder-blue steelwork and clean glass roof will soon be grimy with diesel soot, despite hosting only clean, modern electric Eurostars. :roll:
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I had a glass of De Nauroy (at £7.50, one of the two cheapest on the wine list) to toast the new station this evening. I was amazed at how much of the old undercroft is now opened up and is light and airy.
I sat and watched the Eurostar trains glide in and out, just the other side of the glass panel, as I enjoyed my bubbly. What spoiled the whole thing for me was the slight fug, nauseating smell, and sting in the eye of diesel fumes drifting into Barlow's magnificent train shed from the smokey old Midland Mainline trains at their platforms under their low flat roof tacked onto the front of Barlow's superb structure.
This is an appalling design oversight.
There really should be full-height glass walls sealing the renewed trainsehed from the MML station. That magnificent powder-blue steelwork and clean glass roof will soon be grimy with diesel soot, despite hosting only clean, modern electric Eurostars. :roll:
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From the East Kent side, to the FCC platforms it's a case of crossing a couple of roads. The roads appear to be only for taxis so not a problem. Takes under 1 minute entrance-to-entrance.
But to get from Platform 1 of King's Cross to the MML platforms would take around 5 minutes walk I'd have thought.
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When is the Thameslink station at St Pancras opening
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Are there any real photo's of St Pancras Thameslink station what it looks like now
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If you scrolled up you would have seen http://paulbigland.fotopic.net/c1409840.html :roll:
Snapper
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I took pictures in the box a few years ago, but haven't been back since they started fitting out the station. No doubt I will soon...
No disrespect to you, I mean that Tom linked to your site when I don't know why as no one has got images of the platforms AFAIK.
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True. I don't know if any railway journalists/photographers have been down there recently.
westcoaster
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platforms coming along nicely, DOO monitors are in place and working, new signals are now in place and working, most of the heavy machinery has been removed, and station signs in place, although the station is very white so is very bright.
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Made my first visit to St P Intl this evening .. Not planned- but as the Northern line was stuffed I didn't have a prayer of getting to LBG to get my normal train.
Think the station looks fantastic - almost full marks except .....
If you are trying to go from the Northern Line to the FCC platforms, you walk about 10 miles just toget to the platforms! I didn't think I'd be walking through most of north London just to get my train ! There was a poster about being a convenient interchange - it's not for fat tired people like myself ....
But I have to say - platforms are lovely. The screens are very clear and it looks superb. Bit strange going down through Thameslink station where they've ripped everything down already.
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Think the station looks fantastic - almost full marks except .....
If you are trying to go from the Northern Line to the FCC platforms, you walk about 10 miles just toget to the platforms! I didn't think I'd be walking through most of north London just to get my train ! There was a poster about being a convenient interchange - it's not for fat tired people like myself ....
But I have to say - platforms are lovely. The screens are very clear and it looks superb. Bit strange going down through Thameslink station where they've ripped everything down already.
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I suppose it's what we might expect from a train port. You won't even be able to get from the eMML platforms to the Kent domestic platforms without changing levels. I believe the old curve from the thameslink line to the west side of King's cross is being turned into a passage which, if they have any sense, they will install travelators. Still, I think what was once just over the footbridge is going to be a long walk for some time now.
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