Why is the Walk at King's Cross Tube so long? 

modern art feels a little unsatsifying to me in that sense. like is that all there is to this artwork? is there more meaning behind it? if analyzing this were a homework assignment how would i hit the minimum word count?

Cheers, will hopefully do some more soon.

@@distractionbucket7454 3D animations of big tube interchange stations are gold - well done. I watched the Northern Line / Bank vid after this too. I'd love to see an animation video that shows a tube line following the streets that are above it. The streets could be a trace outline that you can 'see through' from an angle above to the tube tunnels underneath. Just a few stations would be cool. Don't know if it exists or how hard that is to create.

I agree this is brilliant, any chance you could do Waterloo tube station?

Maybe the artist wanted to have the sculpture straight forward. So you have the part under the floor and the visible part. And despite of the stuff under the roof you can still see that it's a round tube.

The art work visualises the circle/tunnel as originally built. There are 2 art works in different places.

My mum walked through Kings Cross Underground station barely 5 minutes before it exploded.

This is definitely a consideration. Toronto is adding additional entrances to a bunch of subway stations, precisely to provide a redundant exit. The fact that they also reduce the distances people need to walk to the nearest subway entrance is just a bonus.

Good point, I did think about mentioning the fire, but I thought it might make the video too drawn out. If I did mention it, I also wanted to make sure I'd done enough research to talk about it properly.

Cheers, much appreciated!

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Cheers

Thanks!

It's very rarely efficient to take a train to an adjacent station, if that's what you mean. If it's two stations or more, then yes, but the next station is normally the same amount of time away as walking, so only do that if the weather is terrible! Same goes for interchanges, if your interchange / connection is one station away, consider walking to the next station, rather than enter > find platform > wait for train > board > alight next station > find next platform > wait > board... just walk to the next station and enter at your interchange station unless the weather outside is madness and you're not prepared for it. As you move away from central London, that changes, as the stations are spaced further apart.

An excellent move you win, the game! (See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornington_Crescent_(game) for those that have no idea what I'm on about!) But yeah, that must have been a very annoying walk!

@@distractionbucket7454 you know, I only heard about that show AFTER we left! 😂 And I miss that station so much now.

"They made me a present of Mornington Crescent: they threw it a brick at a time."

That's exactly what I was about to comment, it's the missing piece so to speak.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ij6JeFo48SI.html ;)

A video showing the whole history of the station, including plans like Crossrail2, would be amazing to see. Same for the other main stations & interchanges.

Ah Saint Pancreas, sacrificing his pancreas as a martyr so we can all digest the gifted livers of the Liverpool

Whoops! I thought I'd caught all the times it had done that! Thanks for spotting it- should be corrected now.

Thanks. I do make them myself, don't have a specific source for the plans, but it's a combination of memory and things found on the internet.

He does say "Some details missing for clarity." 0:30

I would assume, that depends on where you need to go?

@@picobyte of course. The 'long walk', or 'hub level passage' as it was known in the design stage, links the Picc and Vic lines with the North Ticket Hall, all of which are clearly signed

I think the answer in both cases is "it depends". There are quite a few places where the bypass is great if traffic is heavy, but at quieter times it's faster to go through the town centre. Local knowledge and knowledge of alternative routes can often lead to faster journey times either driving or on foot compared to the "official" routes, even if sometimes it relies on most people using the "proper" route leaving the unofficial route quiet.

there's something very fishy about kings crustacean.

Thanks! Sorry, I think the tapping noise is my creaky desk chair. I use Blender for the 3D models, it's very powerful and available free. It does have a steep learning curve, though I believe they have improved that somewhat with the most recent version.

@@distractionbucket7454 Wow! Did you build everything from scratch, or import items you downloaded? I'm already learning Blender, and have had it for years. Fantastic. I used 3DS Max back in the day at Uni.

@@TechRyze it's all built from scratch, though mostly by combining the basic mesh shapes. Have seen some impressive work in Maya, but never tried it myself. I've also had blender for ages, I tend to develop in bursts- I usually need a project like these videos to motivate me to learn new skills

You're just being piccy.

Pink higlights at 2:15 is all the advice you need, no? Though he could indeed have used more concrete wording than "if you know what you're doing"

If you mean the link to the old Metropolitan/Thameslink- that is still in use in peak times, but it comes out miles away from the rail stations, so isn't heavily used. I might include more detail on that in a future video at some point.

Might do that sometime, it does amuse me how the lift system is so complicated it comes with it's own maps!

@@distractionbucket7454 If you do decide to do it and want some action shots let me know and I will come along in my wheelchair.

pically-dically

Probably for the same reason already mentioned. They were building underneath a very big rail station, and probably had to avoid a ton of things while digging.

I can totally understand that- in this case it was a result of still figuring out how I feel about respecting people's privacy while filming in public and deciding to err on the side of caution.

2.15 the short cut highlighted in pink ie up escalators to old ticket hall. It would have been EXTREMELY helpful to have paid attention to what you were watching. You muppet.

Hear, hear! Never could understand why that interchange had to involve such a bloody long trek.

I might have to look into doing that one in future- it is one of the other infamous "long walks"

take a long walk off a short pier - it's good for you.