This is the southbound Thameslink platform at Farringdon. It's huge. To get to street level you are required either climb these stairs, or the others at the far end, or take one of the two lifts between them. Hmmm.
What's the good reason for not installing a moving staircase here?
Pre-2012 the area opposite the Farringdon Metropolitan Line tube station entrance looked like this retrospective Google streetview – an elegant 1920's building echoing the style of the station opposite designed by Charles Walter Clark which also served the Thameslink routes.
Then the Elizabeth Line came to town and a swanky new box was created with an enormous concourse to delineate the train services on one side of the street and the tube services on the other.
Within this vast bland cavern they installed escalators for the Elizabeth Line, but not for the Thameslink platforms – why?
My friend, who often works nearby suffers from claustrophobia and she hates this station if she is carrying luggage. If she arrives with a colleague they can take her bags in the lift whilst she climbs the stairs, but if she's travelling alone she has to rely on the kindness of strangers or lug the stuff up step by exhausting step.
Read what I think about the Elizabeth Line's shoddy design here.
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Thanks, Jane