Such a shame they didn’t make the roof all glass (ETFE, the self cleaning stuff?) during Leeds 1st. It would have flooded even more light onto the platforms and looked classier than the tin roof.
ETFE is the "plastic pillows" used on Manchester Piccadilly and New Street concourses, Eden Project etc. It appears to be effective in all those places, though they get a lot less internal pollution than Leeds. Self-cleaning glass looks like ordinary glass, only cleaner.
If it means windows, they probably should have written windows. I’ve Googled the word and still not too clear what’s it’s referring to.
My understanding of the word 'louvres' is air vents, which they were on that side of the building before. I'm presuming this is to improve air quality especially with 68s frequently passing through the adjacent platforms!
Yeah I think they're just replacing the slats that were there before.
The netting that used to be they're was removed a while ago.
Because the flooring contractors were in 'lockdown', perhaps?
The start of work was delayed by Covid. Work has been ongoing for weeks now, possibly even a couple of months. It's not a quick process- remove old flooring with a mini digger, put temporarily coverings down until it's all removed, install the new underfloor heating system and then put the new flooring down on top.
Navigational signs: hard to tell. They're not consistent in some places and have had bit hung off the bottom of some of them (also, a bit hard to read the concourse finger signs if you're in a wheelchair I'd have thought, they're very high up). Pictograms? Haven't seen them side-by-side or in a file to check. Alphabet? Apparently yes, on P0.
I don't think they've started rolling this out yet, I think it was London Victoria(?) that they wanted to roll it out in first but that's not happened yet.
Do you know something the rest of us don't?
I'm just guessing!Do you know something the rest of us don't?
Oh wow, that is.... Astonishingly different. I was last there a couple of years and that concourse was basically the same as when I lived there in the 90s, or for that matter when I first visited in the early 80s
The taunting of the locals with the blue and white cones is four years too late!
Looks great, tons better than before. What's going on with the information desk with the "We have moved" sign? Are they already getting rid or is something else intended to take its place?
It's just moved while the flooring works are going on.
Because the funding was for station improvements which includes the concourse, west end resignalling, trackwork improvements and a new platform.
