On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 00:55:18 -0800 (PST), Offramp
wrote:

On Dec 5, 8:46 pm, Paul Corfield wrote:
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 19:57:01 -0000, "John Rowland"

I think the difference is that Shepherds Bush is a new station and must
meet mandated standards before Works, Plant and Equipment (statutory
safety) approval can be granted thus allowing public use. Let's be frank
- the platform width issue at SB is a right royal cock up by several
parties who have duties under Construction Design Management regulations
to design correctly or to seek assurance or to grant approvals.

Too right! I went through SB on a Harrow to West brompton train and I
could see that the platforms were quite laughably small. I could SEE
it in one second - anyone could. How engineers in a country with 200
years of station-building experience thought it would be all right
is ... it's just weird, I suppose... freaky. Mental would be another
good word.

Someone probably scaled from drawings rather than using figured
dimensions!