The Railway Magazine is suggesting this month, in a small piece on p11,
that:

"Contrary to previously announced plans, it is now understood that the
Eurostar platforms and trainshed may be turned into a shopping mall."

This would seem on the face of it to conflict completely with the Route
plan, which has platform 20 back in use by SWT this December, [in fact SWT
have had a trains in there a few weeks ago looking at signal sighting etc]
and the other 4 platforms returned to use during the next control period, ie
2009 to 2014.

Now there is obviously room in the undercroft for retail, especially if the
main concourse is reduced in depth at the suburban end, but is there any
real likelihood of the suggestion above occuring? Or are they talking about
'air rights'?

Paul S

On Jul 10, 4:29 pm, "Paul Scott" btinternet.com>
wrote:

Do they quote a source ?

"D7666" hotmail.com> wrote in message
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No - but I wonder if they might be couple of few years out of date on this!

Paul

On Jul 10, 9:16 pm, "Paul Scott" btinternet.com>
wrote:

IMHO there would already have been wider reporting of this matter if
it were true, given the lag from press to print, and the way things
leak these days, so I'll go along with them being out of date for now.

D7666 wrote:

http://www.elizabethhouseredevelopment.com/scheme_design.html
latest views on one side of the redevelopment

IMHO they look quite good but the buildings are going to be very tall
and they will really change the skyline around there

On Jul 10, 9:16 pm, "Paul Scott" btinternet.com>
wrote:

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<2d9f99d2-82fa-417c-a22d-90962456b656@l42g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>, at
06:32:07 on Sun, 13 Jul 2008, rannochmoor@btinternet.com remarked:

Isn't the new development to the north of the station? And this is the
station where the light is so bright no-one can read the hi-tech
departure boards?

They'll slow it down, for sure. And a 50:50 chance that a huge 1930's
type recession means it's actually turned into a soup kitchen.

Among the ideas for Waterloo is extending track back into the concourse, as
part of a 10-car scheme for suburban services, and constructing a new
concourse at undercroft level. If this is likely to happen, it would not be
a good move to extend the existing main concourse over then low level E*
concourse.

Peter

Roland Perry wrote:

That's more or less solved now.

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