Hey guys. I'm currently planning a journey that takes me via London.
Basically I arrive in London Kings Cross, then ened to walk over to St
Pancreas to get a train to St. Albans. According to the Transport
Direct journey planner, this walk will take 31 minutes, but if I look
at any map, it looks like it shouldn't even take 5!

I've not been to the new St Pancreas, and I guess the entrance might
not be at the Kings Cross side, but is it really true that it would
take the average person 31 minutes to walk from Kings Cross station to
St. Pancreas?

Kind regards,

Matt

Matt wrote:

First of all, it's St Pancras, not St Pancreas!

They must be assuming that you get lost, not difficult to do if you
don't know the place. It shouldn't take more than 5 or 10 minutes.

Along with platform 9 3/4?

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Cheers

Roger T.
Home of the Great Eastern Railway at:-
http://www.highspeedplus.com/~rogertra/
Latitude: 48

Platform 9 3/4. Sorry forgot the link.

http://www.crypto.com/photos/misc/platform9.75.html

Cheers

Roger T.
Home of the Great Eastern Railway at:-
http://www.highspeedplus.com/~rogertra/
Latitude: 48

"Richard J." blueukder.co.yon> wrote in message
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Richard J. wrote:

If you're coming from the north, don't forget there's always the option
of taking a bus from Hatfield or Welwyn Garden City to St. Albans.

Look up bus times on <http://transportdirect.info/>.

In message
<7b05eb09-ca83-4b5a-85eb-2d83bf8ac8b3@c23g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>, at
18:26:04 on Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Matt hotmail.com> remarked:

If you arrive on any of platforms 1-7 [1] then first you may have to
walk the entire length of the train to the concourse, and then the
obvious route is to exit the station at the front. From there, although
St Pancras is "just across the road", you then end up walking the entire
length of the original shed, before starting a trip down into the bowels
for the low-level station.

So yes, it's not a five minute job. 31 minutes does allow some normal
"connection time", too. Looking at a map, the total distance might be as
much as 2,000 ft, which is six minutes at a 4mph trot, so realistically
twice that with people and luggage in the way.

[1] For pedants, there is a footbridge for platform 1, but I doubt any
strangers would ever use it.

In message gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk>, at 08:21:30 on Sun, 10
Feb 2008, Michael Hoffman <cam.ac.uk@mh391.invalid> remarked:

Although none of the NXEC trains stop at either of those stations.

On 10 Feb, 08:39, Roland Perry perry.co.uk> wrote:

There's a side entrance from the King's Cross concourse that recently
reopened that takes you between hoardings to somewhere near the middle
side entrance to St Pancras. It makes the walk slightly shorter. I
think you just turn right just before the Travel Centre and then it's
hard to not follow the route.

See entrance number 4 here (NB a lot of the map is out of date):
http://www.networkrail.co.uk/documents/For%%20Passengers/Station%%20Maps/4504_Ki...

U

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01:23:03 on Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Mr Thant
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