In message , Peter Smyth
writes
New Cross, Waterloo East, and St Pancras Low Level use letters rather
than numbers for their platforms.
Each of Waterloo East and St. Pancras I can understand as they're just
about two stations on the same sight, New Cross, I've never been to.
--
Clive

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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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?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

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

On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 16:43:26 +0100, "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.

Edinburgh Waverly had a lot more missing before the recent
renumbering.

On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 20:28:44 +0100, Clive
wrote:

In message , Peter Smyth
writes
New Cross, Waterloo East, and St Pancras Low Level use letters rather
than numbers for their platforms.
Each of Waterloo East and St. Pancras I can understand as they're just
about two stations on the same sight, New Cross, I've never been to.

It's to avoid confusion with the platforms at nearby New Cross Gate.

mcp wrote:

New Cross, Waterloo East, and St Pancras Low Level use letters rather
than numbers for their platforms.
Each of Waterloo East and St. Pancras I can understand as they're just
about two stations on the same sight, New Cross, I've never been to.

It's to avoid confusion with the platforms at nearby New Cross Gate.

By the way are the New Crosses a valid "outerchange" station? Thanks to
Overground there's a potential increase in interchange traffic that
previously would have gone via London Bridge.

In fact is there a clear list anywhere of which pairs of stations definitely
are and aren't valid through interchanges on a single ticket?

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On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 01:13:10 +0100, "Tim Roll-Pickering"
wrote:

mcp wrote:

New Cross, Waterloo East, and St Pancras Low Level use letters rather
than numbers for their platforms.
Each of Waterloo East and St. Pancras I can understand as they're just
about two stations on the same sight, New Cross, I've never been to.

It's to avoid confusion with the platforms at nearby New Cross Gate.

By the way are the New Crosses a valid "outerchange" station? Thanks to
Overground there's a potential increase in interchange traffic that
previously would have gone via London Bridge.

In fact is there a clear list anywhere of which pairs of stations definitely
are and aren't valid through interchanges on a single ticket?

For Oyster :-
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/reques...on_interchange

There are also "emergency OSIs" mentioned in :-
http://www.oyster-rail.org.uk/out-of...terchange-osi/
(PVAL = passenger validator)

Charles Ellson wrote:

In fact is there a clear list anywhere of which pairs of stations
definitely
are and aren't valid through interchanges on a single ticket?

For Oyster :-
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/reques...on_interchange

There are also "emergency OSIs" mentioned in :-
http://www.oyster-rail.org.uk/out-of...terchange-osi/
(PVAL = passenger validator)

Thanks. I assume the regular ones are also valid for paper tickets?

I'm surprised that Aldgate & Aldgate East aren't a regular OSI - the number
of times that a Hammersmith & City train is nowhere to be seen would make
that a sensible route.

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On 2012\10\01 20:28, Clive wrote:
In message , Peter Smyth
writes
New Cross, Waterloo East, and St Pancras Low Level use letters rather
than numbers for their platforms.
Each of Waterloo East and St. Pancras I can understand as they're just
about two stations on the same sight, New Cross, I've never been to.

You must be the only living boy who hasn't been to New Cross. Allegedly,
the platform numbers are to distinguish from New Cross gate, although
they aren't really near enough to warrant that.