On 8 Jun, 18:02, umpston wrote:

The Great Eastern Railway (later LNER) ran passenger services from
Fenchurch St. to Stratford via Bow Road for many years. The two bay
platforms were intended for this but never used since these trains
were axed in the late 1940s, and Bow Road station closed, before the
Stratford reconstruction was completed.

Was track ever installed in platform 7? I don't remember ever seeing
any, but the platforms were never re-nmbered to eliminate the unused
ones, indeed, in more recent times platform 10a was created to avoid
re-numbering existing ones. The only old platform at Stratford that
had its number 'reclaimed', and used elsewhere.

Stratford is the only station with more than two platforms I can think
of where the lowest (1) and highest (15) numbered platforms are next
to each other.

Also, it must surely be the only station where four consecutivly
numbered platforms, 2-5, have four different elextrification systems,
at least for a few more days. Of course, it also had two other
systems in the past.

How are the new DLR platforms going to be numbered?