In article ,
"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote:

wrote:

According to the signs this new platform is for electric trains only, yet
I
saw an HST set in it on Saturday (13:36). Admittedly the engine wasn't
running on the power car under the buildings.

Is this a regular occurrence? If so why not change the signs?

How many other stations have unusual numbering for their platforms?

Obviously one could fill an entire thread with examples at Statford.

There's a Platform 0 at Haymarket as well as the ones at Stockport and
Cardiff Central that other posters have mentioned.

Sam

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In article ,
Sam Wilson wrote:
In article ,
"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote:

wrote:

According to the signs this new platform is for electric trains only, yet
I
saw an HST set in it on Saturday (13:36). Admittedly the engine wasn't
running on the power car under the buildings.

Is this a regular occurrence? If so why not change the signs?

How many other stations have unusual numbering for their platforms?

Obviously one could fill an entire thread with examples at Statford.

There's a Platform 0 at Haymarket as well as the ones at Stockport and
Cardiff Central that other posters have mentioned.

I suppose it's too much to hope that any platform 0 has a milepost 0 on it ?

Ah well, never mind,

Nick
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On 01/10/2012 21:22, Nick Leverton wrote:

I suppose it's too much to hope that any platform 0 has a milepost 0 on it ?

They keep shifting the inward end of the platforms towards the country
end so presumably to save them changing all the mileposts on the system
the effective position of milepost 0 is somewhere in the middle of the
concourse. :-(
--
Phil Cook

Apart from at Euston where the platforms are now nearer Euston Road than
milepost 0 and so are regarded as being at a negative chainage.

In article ,
(Sam Wilson) wrote:

In article ,
"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote:

wrote:

According to the signs this new platform is for electric trains only,
yet I saw an HST set in it on Saturday (13:36). Admittedly the engine
wasn't running on the power car under the buildings.

Is this a regular occurrence? If so why not change the signs?

How many other stations have unusual numbering for their platforms?

Obviously one could fill an entire thread with examples at Statford.

There's a Platform 0 at Haymarket as well as the ones at Stockport
and Cardiff Central that other posters have mentioned.

Yes, yes, but what about the "Electrics only" restriction at KGX?

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Colin Rosenstiel

On 01/10/2012 16:02, Tim Roll-Pickering wrote:
wrote:

According to the signs this new platform is for electric trains only, yet
I
saw an HST set in it on Saturday (13:36). Admittedly the engine wasn't
running on the power car under the buildings.

Is this a regular occurrence? If so why not change the signs?

How many other stations have unusual numbering for their platforms?

Obviously one could fill an entire thread with examples at Statford.


Waterloo East with A,B,C, & D

"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote

How many other stations have unusual numbering for their platforms?

Platforms at Oxford are numbered, from East to West, 3, 1, 2.

Peter

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)

On Oct 1, 4:43*pm, "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)

Such numbering of all tracks with or without platforms is normal on
just about every railway in just about every country I have been to
outside of UK and IE.

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Nick

In article ,
D7666 wrote:
On Oct 1, 4:43*pm, "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)

Such numbering of all tracks with or without platforms is normal on
just about every railway in just about every country I have been to
outside of UK and IE.

Even including such obscure places as London Bridge and (until the 1970s)
King's Cross ...

Nick
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"The Internet, a sort of ersatz counterfeit of real life"
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