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This is an irregular shaped space with the entrance and exit to/from the shopping mall on the west and the subway towards the museums leading north. Inside the gates, the steps towards the Circle and District lines lead east from the northeast corner, whilst the escalators towards the Piccadilly Line lead east from the southeast corner, which is recessed south from the main space.
Each set of steps is divided into two sections by a central rail.
The stairs from the exit leave from the southwest corner of the concourse. Go up three then 13 steps, going west into the east side of the shopping mall.
The stairs from the entrance leave from the east side of the shopping mall. Go down 13, then three steps, going east into the northwest corner of the concourse.
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fire equipment blank door map machine wall veers left to become south side blank door |
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steps up west to exit Treats A & M Confectionary stairs down from entrance |
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pillar with two phones wall retreats with billboards wall retreats again with Tube map Oyster card dispenser blank door subway to museums, wall retreats twice with blank door on west side of first 3 leaflet racks |
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8 ticket machines fares information blank door Tensa queuing system for ticket sales windows assistance window wall juts out and back again ticket sales window manual gate 10 automatic gates, the left-hand ones are normally the ones you need |
You queue from the north, turn left then right again past the ticket sales windows, towards the gate line.
There's a pillar east of each set of stairs between the concourse and shopping mall.
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stairs to Circle and District lines, keep left line maps slight slope up help point, just beyond the top of the slope line map passage to escalators, to Piccadilly Line |
This passage leaves the southeast corner of the concourse, so that the right (south) wall, as you enter the passage angles right (to become the southwest wall). This then retreats south into the area at the top of the escalators.
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billboards fire extinguisher wall juts out south before escalator |
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down escalator up escalator |
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wall retreats south blank door fire extinguisher wall juts out |
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double blank door entrance to main concourse, slight angle to right, northwest |
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billboards wall juts out northeast billboards assistance box, jutting out blank wall with equipment, in alcove pillar, suggest keep to right of this blank door gate line starts |
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luggage point 3 exits pillar, gate line retreats west 7 gates, pillar in middle pillar gate line juts back east 4th pillar, in corner of gate line barrier running east/west to the manual gate |
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assistance window blank door leaflet rack top of stairs to Circle and District line |
© 2008, Terry Robinson