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Old October 1st 12, 05:32 PM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.railway
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"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote:

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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.

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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,

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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
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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.


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