Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Consultation on permanent closure of ticket office at Harringay Station
Govia Thameslink are consulting on the closure of the ticket office at Harringay station - see photo below for details; consultation closes on Tuesday 28th July.
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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This reads exactly like Henry VIII's Consultation on the Dissolution of Monasteries, Priories, Convents and Friaries, 1536-41 - but lacks all of Henry's rhyme and reason.
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Permalink Reply by kotkas on
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Any work that removes that 3rd world puddle at the top of the bridge will be a substantial improvement and well worth the loss of any notional utility provided by the ticket office I never knew existed in 4 years of commuting.
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Whilst one may not have found particular convenience from it, that's not to say others' concerns aren't valid.
As it stands, Great Northern and Network Rail were quite expressive about what they wanted to do with the ticket office at Harringay, which included a replacement office, which has now been reneged on - other members talked about this here: https://www.harringayonline.com/forum/topics/consultation-on-the-cl...
As usual on railway matters, Gordon T's comment on that post is most accurate.
For what it's worth, if a new bridge deck (which solves kotkas' damp problem) allows a bigger circulation area on the bridge, I'm not necessarily against it on a personal level, especially as someone who has had to do Crystal Maze-esque puzzles to get my bike off the up platform.
But this isn't what was promised - I should rather like to know why that is.
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Maybe they have discovered a new problem when they started to put in the new girders?
Or maybe the economics of the company have changed with Coronavirus?
It would be good to know though - the station is such a mess.
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The deck in situ is well known to be weak in nature - indeed signs on the "leftover" parts of the bridge limit it to 40 people (presumably, with a LOT of leeway, I imagine there is a safe max of 500kg). It'd be a poor lookout if work had begun on a relatively simple project only for a major structural deficiency to rear its head.
More likely it is the latter, but that feels rather a cheap - if fair - get out, to me.
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