Spiral staircases at FP station

Jonathan

Now open, at least on the southbound. Very shiny. And hopefully reducing the risk that the platforms will be overcrowded, and so the station closed, in the morning.

Arkady

They are indeed shiny!  Much nicer than before.  I still can't get my head around the double helix.  I stood looking at the two entrances, trying to envisage how it works.  No luck.

Sutent

Ben you body has millions of double helix in DNA. Its so neatly designed. Looking forward to seeing the stair cases

Arkady

Designed, sutent?

Sutent

I am not a god believer. But whoever or by whatever method the DNA double helix was designed it is a amazing. It allows maximum data storage in minimum space. Decoding it all is a  mammoth global scientific effort

Stella

Told you it's the aliens who put us here to study us, or maybe just for the sheer fun of it, as we humans are just a tad hideous. 

markpack

Have you seen the double helix ones in Dover Ben? They were built to maximise the number of troops who could get from the top of the cliffs to the bottom in double-quick time.

Jonathan

Are they really double helix (spirals going in opposing directions)? Or are they two spirals that go round the same way, but nested inside each other? If it's the latter it's rather simpler.

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ChangN4N6

Voice of doom ?

NorthNineteen

@misscare about the staircases at Finsbury Park, or about double helix's?

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Jonathan

I checked. They definitely go in the same direction. Both ascend anti-clockwise, staggered so that one starts at quarter-past and one at quarter-two, as it were. So as you are going up one staircase the ceiling above you is the floor of the other one. Realise this is a bit niche, but I'd been wondering ...