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Colin Rosenstiel · March 22nd 07, 10:35 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article .com,
(Paul Oter) wrote:

On 20 Mar, 14:15, "TimB" wrote:
On Mar 20, 11:20 am, "Clive D. W. Feather" c...@on-the-
train.demon.co.uk wrote:
Every train does have a designated platform.

Not in my experience

Hull Trains have so few services that it wouldn't be a good use
of space.

I didn't mean they should be the only TOC on that platform, just
that their trains should always be on the same platform - which would

help loading supplies as well as helping passengers.

If you mean that the same service (e.g. the 1915 to Cambridge)
should depart from the same King's Cross platform every day, then in my
experience of commuting it usually does, about 90% of the time. (It
uses platform 7).

It does in the current timetable indeed. I am sitting on the 1915 now and
it did leave from 7.

Unfortunately that means that all of us with bikes (quite a few because
it's the first train after the peak restrictions on which bikes are
allowed) have to get up and move our bikes after the train leaves the
Cross or else they block the doors at Letchworth and Royston.

I did put this point to WAGN several timetables ago and for a time they
did have it leave the Cross from an even-numbered platform, avoiding the
problem. No doubt the point got lost in the franchise change and we never
see FCC management any more.

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Colin Rosenstiel