Talk:Covent Garden tube station

Detail
The last edit by 217.150.114.18 put way too much detail into the article, I felt. People don't need to know that the corridors are tiled with lightly coloured tiles. However, it is probably true as I did an IP check on the user and he/she lives in London. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Honeycake (talk • contribs) 17:35, 1 November 2004‎


 * In fact I live in zone 1 of London. The tiling is VERY unusual, the colouring of the passageways to the lift in particular (which is also light) makes the station appear really quite surreal. Another wierd feature is that Lloyd Grossman has done a voiceover for 2 of the lifts describing the surrounding area (its quite annoying and I try to use the other 2 lifts when at all possible). 217.150.114.18 —Preceding undated comment added 13:18, 5 November 2004‎.

The Lloyd Grossman voiceover is well worth mentioning. Especially since it's both jarring and out of character with the locale. As I live in Covent Garden this is one of the stations I use most often. The tiling may well be light but as the station is fairly small and one of the most congested on the underground, the comment of airiness seems at best mistaken. It also needs to mention how many steps people need to climb to reach surface level. I think it is the equivalent of going 11 floors. Will check this out. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Irritant (talk • contribs) 22:42, 6 June 2005‎

As regards the time to walk between Covent Garden and Leicester Square tube stations. It is certainly the case that to walk from one station entrance to the other would take less time than to enter one station, travel by train to the other, and then leave - even if a train arrived as you reached the platform, and you got a lift at CG straight away. But I would say that the walk from one station entrance to the other would take longer than the train journey time platform to platform. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.29.215.250 (talk) 21:37, 17 September 2006‎

Please include as much details as possible - wikipedia offers two ways of doing article. You can make short summary at start, and details in corresponding sections. This is not possible in paper, but using electronic You can see what You want, and hide too much detail.

For e.g. info about stairs was useful for me - because I had the idea to use the stairs, not the lift and probably now had to do some running before... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.75.70.254 (talk) 04:54, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Shortest distance claim
I've reverted 88.107.60.196's removal of this. Checking Quail's track diagrams, the distance between the platform centre-points for Covent Garden and Leicester Square is .26 kilometres, while for Charing Cross/Embankment the distances are .37 and .26 for the Bakerloo and Northern lines respectively. Obviously that's rounded, so the .26 could be anything from .255 to .264 and presumably CC/LS is at the lower limit, while C-X/Emb is at the upper limit. The bottom line is that TFL still claim that CC/LS is the shortest, and we shouldn't second-guess them unless someone can come up with an authoratative source that says otherwise. Nick Cooper 13:12, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

So how many steps are there, really?
From the current version (28 July 2008):
 * “…platform access is only by lift or stairs(195 steps).”
 * “…access to the platforms is primarily by lift as 192 steps need to be climbed to access or exit the station.”
 * “…alternatively, there are 193 narrow and steep emergency steps to the street.”

So is it 195, 192, or 193? Inquiring minds want to know. ☺ Mpt (talk) 21:57, 7 August 2008 (UTC)


 * There are two sets of steps between ground level and the platforms: the main emergency spiral staircase down to the lift landing, and then the steps between the latter and the platform. Most sources say 193 for the emergency staircase, which tallies with my (imperfect) memory of the sign at the bottom - might be nice to have a picture of that. The other steps I'm not sure about - four or five, at least. Nick Cooper (talk) 07:15, 8 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I was in London quite recently and I used this station. I wasn't paying that much attention but I am sure the sign said 193 on the emergency staircase. There are about 10 steps between the lifts and the platforms. Anywikiuser (talk) 13:24, 8 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I recently used this station (and these steps), too. Unfortunately I wasn't aware of this doubt here, or I'd have checked. No Londoners checking this page? I can confirm that there are four or five steps before the staircase, though, that's probabily why we have different numbers here. Let me add that whatever their exact number is, they're too darned many! I almost died climbing those stairs! Laz (talk) 09:56, 14 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Lol Laz btw it is 193 steps. Check out this website: http://www.geofftech.co.uk/tube/facts.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vincent60030 (talk • contribs) 12:04, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

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