Walthamstow Central - bus station to tube subway

I had a quick look at a notice at Walthamstow Central last week, which
stated that the tube station ticket office would be closed from Monday
11 September for x months. Seems the final stage of connecting the
subway from the bus station into the tube station is about to start.

It was rather late and I didn't pay an awful lot of attention, but I
think it said the tube ticket office was going to be closed until next
Spring, and reopen with three ticket windows. From that it sounds like
the passageway will enter directly into and level with the landing at
the top of the escalators, with the ticket office being realigned along
the new passageway.

If it was three ticket windows (I may have read wrongly) it seems a
little strange, as I would have thought one or two windows plus several
Oyster-capable ticket machines would have been enough nowadays.

Perhaps however LU feel that they can get more business diverted from
the National Rail ticket offices upstairs, even if people aren't
actually going to use the Victoria line. What might it be worth in
revenue to them for selling (e.g.) a Travelcard compared to the revenue
they would get if bought from the NR office above?

On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 22:15:28 +0100, Paul Corfield
<aooy65@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

>When we first put the gates in - I was the project client - there was
>massive pressure from the Vic Line management to get POMs and a big
>ticket office.

Something must be wrong in my internal logic; I'm parsing that as
Prescription Only Medicine... :)

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On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 23:15:55 +0100, James Farrar
<james.s.farrar@> wrote:

>On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 22:15:28 +0100, Paul Corfield
><aooy65@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
>
>>When we first put the gates in - I was the project client - there was
>>massive pressure from the Vic Line management to get POMs and a big
>>ticket office.
>
>Something must be wrong in my internal logic; I'm parsing that as
>Prescription Only Medicine... :)

Ooops LUL speak strikes again - passenger operated machines.
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Paul C


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On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 10:09:46 +0100, Paul Corfield
<aooy65@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 23:15:55 +0100, James Farrar
><james.s.farrar@> wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 22:15:28 +0100, Paul Corfield
>><aooy65@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
>>
>>>When we first put the gates in - I was the project client - there was
>>>massive pressure from the Vic Line management to get POMs and a big
>>>ticket office.
>>
>>Something must be wrong in my internal logic; I'm parsing that as
>>Prescription Only Medicine... :)
>
>Ooops LUL speak strikes again - passenger operated machines.

LUL-speak includes the word "passenger"?

*faints*

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James Farrar
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Harry G wrote:

> It was rather late and I didn't pay an awful lot of attention, but I
> think it said the tube ticket office was going to be closed until next
> Spring

And in the meantime, the lack of any Oyster facilities/windows/machines
whatsoever is going to make it fun trying to travel with a valid ticket.
(Local corner shop which is closed in even the early evenings
notwithstanding.)

asdf wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 17:33:53 +0100, Dave Newt wrote:
>
>>> It was rather late and I didn't pay an awful lot of attention, but I
>>> think it said the tube ticket office was going to be closed until next
>>> Spring
>> And in the meantime, the lack of any Oyster facilities/windows/machines
>> whatsoever is going to make it fun trying to travel with a valid ticket.
>> (Local corner shop which is closed in even the early evenings
>> notwithstanding.)
>
> From the information available on the web, it seems that the NR ticket
> office sells Oyster cards, and is open until 9pm.


Yes, the web says that, but I assure you it's 100% untrue.

Dave Newt wrote:
> asdf wrote:
>> On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 17:33:53 +0100, Dave Newt wrote:
>>
>>>> It was rather late and I didn't pay an awful lot of attention, but I
>>>> think it said the tube ticket office was going to be closed until next
>>>> Spring
>>> And in the meantime, the lack of any Oyster
>>> facilities/windows/machines whatsoever is going to make it fun trying
>>> to travel with a valid ticket. (Local corner shop which is closed in
>>> even the early evenings notwithstanding.)
>>
>> From the information available on the web, it seems that the NR ticket
>> office sells Oyster cards, and is open until 9pm.
>
>
> Yes, the web says that, but I assure you it's 100% untrue.

I mean the bit abour selling Oyster - they don't :-)

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 23:07:43 +0100, martyn dawe
<mdawe@GANLIN1.> wrote:

[walthamstow central]
>The publicity suggests 11 month closure, surely sept to june is 9 months
>?

Given the very protracted timescales for this entire project I would not
hold my breath. It'll open when it opens although quite why it needs
months and months to knock through a wall and to construct an office I
am not quite sure. Still I'm not a construction engineer and it's taken
them the best part of this year to get the constructed subway into some
sort of state where they can start tiling it.

I hope it is worth the wait.
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Paul C


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