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My Goodness! Surely that new ticket hall is as big as (gasp) the football pitch at Wembley!
It's a new trend - in future ALL ticket halls will be as big as the football pitch at Wembley. Then when Qatar suddenly withdraw because they discover that grass won't grow on sand, the F.A. will immediately bid to hold the World Cup in Tottenham Court Road, London Bridge, etc (because of the world-class transport links).
RayL | 10.01.15 - 8:17 a.m. | #
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I'm not into football that much, but I'd have thought the pitch at Wembley was much the same size as footaball pitches anywhere else, just with a lot more space around it. I'm waiting for the day when we have a ticket hall "the size of Wales".
Waterhouse | 10.01.15 - 8:32 a.m. | #
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If we ever manage to establish a civilisation off Earth, Wales could become the ticket hall.
JD | 10.01.15 - 9:16 a.m. | #
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I won't miss it - it was always dingy, the entrances badly cobbled together from two older stations, and with the passages far too narrow for the number of people using it.
The name annoys me too - the Hampstead Tube's own Tottenham Court Road station (now named Goodge Street) was much better placed for most of that thoroughfare.
timbo | 10.01.15 - 10:22 a.m. | #
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It was a station built by civil engineers for civil engineers. Entering it felt like entering a secret place, i'll miss it. the underground is slowly being tidied up. Went there yesterday evening and the staff said it will reopen , reengineered as the entrance to the central line in a year or so.
Tufnellparker | 10.01.15 - 10:35 a.m. | #
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Football pitches: FIFA rules require the length of a pitch to be between 100 - 130 yards (90m - 120m) and the width 50-100 yards (45m-90m). Thus an area of 5000-13000 sq yards (4050 - 10800 sq metres, or between one and 2.7 acres in old money)
Wembley's pitch is 115x75 yd (105mx69m) giving an area of 8625 sq yd, (7245 sq m, or 1.5 acres). However, unlike the concourse at London Bridge, it is unobstructed by pillars, gatelines and other paraphernalia, and is only expected to accommodate 23 people at any one time.
The entire stadium is cited as having a circumference of 1km, which, if it is a circle, would give an area of about 40,000 sq metres
timbo | 10.01.15 - 10:39 a.m. | #
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The video shows a lift from Centrepoint to the large ticket hall, then escalators and stairs to the Northern line platforms. Does this mean only Crossrail will be step-free?
Are these shiny new escalators of a standard design or by the time Crossrail opens will one of them be boarded up for years while complex part replacement work is undertaken?
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@Anon 12:14
The video shows a path leading off between the escalators. It's not labelled, but I'm guessing this leads to another lift.
Adrian | 10.01.15 - 1:03 p.m. | #
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My bad. Looks like that lift is the one to the Crossrail platforms. The Northern Line lift is direct from the ticket office. See 28 seconds in to the Londonist video (the "future" link in the article).
Adrian | 10.01.15 - 1:08 p.m. | #
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I am sure it will fantastic looking station when it all complete and fully operational (Crossrail). I think I noticed when last in the area work being done to CerntrePoint (Tower)...guess with the new "hub" then this will become one of those "prime" office locations? Hopefully something will be done about the poor pavement areas around the crossroads. No good having a station with so much space only to exit out to a crowded confined area. Know the works have not helped...but the location has always seemed to me to be rather a "pinch-point".
E | 10.01.15 - 1:13 p.m. | #
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@E, I believe that Centrepoint is being converted into flats, because though attractive it never worked as office space. It stood empty for many years, partly because the owners wanted to let it to a single company, but the design wasn't suitable, the floor size meant that departments would be spread over at least two floors. Also this was in the 70s when flexitime was very rare, if staff all left the building at the same time there would, as you point out, be problems of congestion.
So finally it was let to a number of smaller companies and now, like several other office buildings, will become residential
amber | 10.01.15 - 1:58 p.m. | #
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The Northern Line platforms were closed for a while a few years ago in order to modify them to get a lift shaft in between them. I assume then that there will be lift access to the Northern line. It may not be ready yet though.
timbo | 10.01.15 - 3:12 p.m. | #
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The old TCR was a horrible dump. Good ridance. Just a shame they are keeping those horrible mosaics.
Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 10.01.15 - 3:21 p.m. | #
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TCR was my daily destination for 3 years for my first proper job after graduating. It's hard to fathom that whereas I used to exit and walk a few minutes to get to my office on Gt Chapel St, the new station covers that whole distance.
s | 10.01.15 - 7:25 p.m. | #
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TCR used to be my local station. My dad used to use the emergency stairs every day to get to work. They're still one of my favourite emergency staircases (although Essex Road is comparable - it's so well hidden though!). Sadly, another set of emergency stairs gone...
the orange one | 10.01.15 - 9:37 p.m. | #
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@timbo
The entire stadium is cited as having a circumference of 1km, which, if it is a circle, would give an area of about 40,000 sq metres
How do you work that one out? I think you are a factor of 2 in error.
In simple crude maths:
The circumference is related to the radius by the formula c = 2πr. So a bit of maths and knowing that Area = πr² gives the formula A = c²/4π. If you take π as 22/7 which is surprisingly close to the true value then you get 79545m².
Alternatively. c=2πr. So r is c/2π which is roughly 159m. Using A = πr² we get 79454m².
(π is pi which doesn't come out well in the font used).
Pedantic of Purley | 10.01.15 - 9:59 p.m. | #
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I stand corrected - somewhere I lost a factor of 2. So the pitch is about 10% of the total area of the stadium.
timbo | 10.01.15 - 11:53 p.m. | #
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Only on here can one go from TCR to Wembley via a maths lesson...all we need now is some grammer correction!
Grumpy Anon | 11.01.15 - 12:53 a.m. | #
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I could do some spelling correction if you wish, Grumpy Anon
amber | 11.01.15 - 6:17 a.m. | #
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Apostrophe corrections happily undertaken at no charge. 24-hour service :)
Great Aunt Annie | 11.01.15 - 9:06 a.m. | #
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Last time I was there, I was dismayed at how badly the Paolozzi mosaics had been treated - bits fallen off and not replaced, areas plastered over, a scattering of lights and speakers and signals and so forth with service lines laid over the top or cut in. Yes, it is on a wall, but it doesn't stop it being an important (and valuable) work of art.
Andrew | 11.01.15 - 2:05 p.m. | #
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Apparently, the new one is already open...
the orange one | 11.01.15 - 6:18 p.m. | #
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It was closed for an evacuation drill when I passed through around 2.30pm.
It's open now - here are 17 photos of the cavernous blue and grey interior.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 11.01.15 - 8:09 p.m. | #
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@ amber/Great Aunt Annie
Thank you! :)
Grumpy Anon | 11.01.15 - 9:18 p.m. | #
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