On 2012\10\01 16:43, Paul Rigg wrote:
Huddersfield has platforms numbered 1 2 4 5 6 and 8.

Not sure what happened to 3 and 7 though perhaps someone will come along
to tell us.


The oddest one I've seen (a bit OT this) was Newark Airport station in
New Jersey where the platforms are, if I recall, numbered 1,2,5 and
6. The missing numbers 3 and 4 are the through roads used by non
stopping trains (Acela, etc). The station is fairly new and would
never have had platforms on the through roads, though I suppose we
should bear in mind that the Americans refer to track numbers, rather
than platforms (Track 29, boy you can give me a shine, etc)

Sound like an excellent bit of forward thinking. While the drawback of
duplicate platform numbers is obvious, I can think of no drawback with
missing numbers.