Triva: Station where the entrance/exit has moved dramatically

[GrimsbyPacer]

Redcar, Liverpool Central, and New Holland.

 

[yorksrob]

Here's a plan of the old layout. If you look at the two sets of stairs on the right which are marked as 'Exit', the top one was the passageway that went towards the suburban station (platforms 9-11), whilst the bottom one was (I think) the stairs being referred to, which gave access directly to the main KX station concourse and had the Tie Rack branch located at the sharp curve.


This more recent plan seems to indicate that those two passageways (which are in the section marked N123-23) have been abandoned by LU and marked as "Network Rail property'.

Ah, cheers for that.

 

[edwin_m]

Here's a plan of the old layout. If you look at the two sets of stairs on the right which are marked as 'Exit', the top one was the passageway that went towards the suburban station (platforms 9-11), whilst the bottom one was (I think) the stairs being referred to, which gave access directly to the main KX station concourse and had the Tie Rack branch located at the sharp curve.


This more recent plan seems to indicate that those two passageways (which are in the section marked N123-23) have been abandoned by LU and marked as "Network Rail property'.

Thanks for these. I was evidently confusing the existing entrance with the former one very close to it, shown as 5 and 4 respectively on "Street Plan Proposed Entrances".

 

[Andyh82]

Here's a plan of the old layout. If you look at the two sets of stairs on the right which are marked as 'Exit', the top one was the passageway that went towards the suburban station (platforms 9-11), whilst the bottom one was (I think) the stairs being referred to, which gave access directly to the main KX station concourse and had the Tie Rack branch located at the sharp curve.

Slightly off topic, but besides the concourse stairs and the pair of stairs on the opposite side of Euston Road which I presume are the same ones that are there now, where did all the other exits come out on the surface?

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Newport (South Wales) has had its entrance moved from around one third way along the platform, much closer to the London end, to pretty much the very other end, now at the Cardiff end.

The entrance into the Godfrey Road car park at the rear of the station is also new, as previously there wasn't a platform four to leave from. Even when this platform first opened, you had to leave via the stairs and bridge at the east end of the platform. From there, you were for a while able to go out into Devon Place as they extended the bridge to allow this ... but then they demolished the extension which made it impossible.

For many years there was the ridiculous situation where you could see the steps coming out of the tunnel under the station and going out into Devon Place, but you couldn't access them from platform four because there was a fence stopping you. I could never understand why there didn't open the gate and allow access / egress that way at certain times.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Though still in use, Taunton's former main entrance on the town and down side (platform 2) is now a shadow of its former self. The 'new' main entrance on the up side is cramped and ugly, as well as being further from town.