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Originally Posted by wyvern
Out of interest I've just looked at the plan on the National Rail Enquiries site.
Has the station changed since I used to use it? I cant see any subways.
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IIRC, the station was renovated again, back in the early '90s.
Nowadays there's just the one subway (that I noticed anyway) and it connects all of the platforms together and also contains retail outlets and the toilets (which still somehow managed to maintain a mild atmosphere of seediness), although as I say I certainly didn't hang around.
The other recent changes I immediately noticed though were the segregation of the subway steps into two halves, with one side being "up-only" and one side being "down only", which was enforced with railings and newish signs all over the place. However, this was generally ignored with many passengers walking the "wrong" way.
Other big change from my point of view was that the concrete footbridge spanning Temple Gate, outside the station approach had been dismantled with improved traffic signalling for pedestrians to cross the busy road at street level instead. To be honest, it does look better without the bridge which was a bit of an eyesore.
Where the bridge connected to a building though, it now looks a little untidy. I thought they might have filled it in or something, but it's just been left as if it was "chopped" off.
I took a quick snap of it here:-
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j7...l/DSC05875.jpg