PLATFORM 8

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Overview

This platform runs along the west side of the mainline station, giving access to a range of facilities including a passage and gated entrance to the suburban station.

As you leave the concourse, there’s a change in floor texture. There's no tactile paving along the edge of the platform.

Going North.

  closed recess to entrance
pillar
2 billboards
blank door
entrance to ladies toilets, down steep stairs
pillar
photo booth
noisy fan
Marks & Spencer Simply Food, two entrances separated by pillar
poster
Delice de France
blank door
poster
Whistle Stop Food and Wine
flower and fruit stall
pillar
Upper Crust
pillar
south entrance to Duke of York bar
pillar
window
pillar
north entrance to Duke of York
poster
first class lounge
wall continues
steps down north to gents toilets

There’s tactile paving before the top of these steps and there’s a rail to the right-hand (east) side of the stairwell. The rail continues around the north side of the stairwell beyond which the wall resumes going north.

Continuing North

  blank door
blank door
trolley point
wall
door to British Transport Police
phone for BTP, north of the door
steps up north onto bridge

This bridge leads across the station to platform 1 only. Note, it’s possible to walk under the stairs from the north.

Continuing North

  pillar, support to bridge
staff phone
double blank door
bins
change of flooring
ramp to goods lift, not for public use
passage leading west towards the suburban station
gate line to suburban station
various goods facilities
bike racks with seats in front
left luggage office
goods facilities
gap, no access, to platform 9
bike racks
goods trolleys etc.
bins
building works
recess to blank door
building works
wire fence
brick wall, row of pillars along platform
rail jutting across platform at the effective end.

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KING'S CROSS STATION

© 2008, Terry Robinson