Does anyone know why the gate behind the LNER kiosk off P8 isn't open (or removed)? In the before times it was on the other side of the gate line (I did see someone hurdle it once - exiting, of course) but now it's on the train side of the gate line.
I ask because on Monday, 9am, that area was full of people waiting for an LNER train to come in. This made it difficult to get past them, and even worse if, like me, you wanted to head east or had just arrived at that side of the station and were trying to get past them. This evening, returned to find a load of passengers stadingthere waiting for... something, as the 1808 CrossCountry disgorged lots of passengers who then had to fight their way past to get out.
Opening the gate (or removing it, and remodeling to great a gentler slope of steps & handrail) would provide a way around them. But I figure people have thought of this already, so... does anyone know why it's still there?