Longest walk at an interchange?

ChrisB

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Re: Longest walk at an interchange?

« Reply #15 on: March 13, 2017, 13:26:47 »

All the way to barrier level before descending another escalator to the Piccadilly line.


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Re: Longest walk at an interchange?

« Reply #16 on: March 13, 2017, 18:19:09 »

Another anomoly is what is the longest tube journey between two stations close together.

I vote Warren Street to Euston Sq via Kings Cross, stand in the right place and you can see both stations.


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Re: Longest walk at an interchange?

« Reply #17 on: March 13, 2017, 21:45:44 »

Quote from: grahame on March 13, 2017, 07:27:47

After my experience yesterday evening, I nominate the Victoria line platform at King's Cross / St Pancras to Platform 1 at St Pancras. Anyone know of any longer walks between trains supposedly at the same interchange?

I'm sure I recently read somewhere that at Kings X / St Pancras and some others TFL^▸ deliberately route you along long corridors so as to avoid congestion on the direct quicker route. The story I read was that it was actually quicker to follow the Way Out signs and then change at street level.


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Fourbee

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Re: Longest walk at an interchange?

« Reply #18 on: March 14, 2017, 10:51:00 »

This article seems to sum some of it up:

http://www.citymetric.com/transport/why-do-signs-kings-cross-st-pancras-londons-biggest-tube-station-seem-take-you-long-way

I was trying to find the image where someone had written "quick way" on one of the underground station signs to avoid walking along that long corridor. IIRC^▸ it was swiftly removed!


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ChrisB

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Re: Longest walk at an interchange?

« Reply #19 on: March 14, 2017, 10:55:33 »

I did Victoria to Northern at Kings Cross last night....for the first & last time. It's miles!

Best do that at Euston I found out.


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