On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:25:38 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

Contrast with somewhere like Manchester
Piccadilly where two of the platforms are in a completely different
place - and the icing on the cake is that when you stand on the
concourse the platform numbers go 1-10, 13-14 [1], 11-12; although I'm
not claiming that 11-12 are a different set from 1-10.

http://www.networkrail.co.uk/documen...Piccadilly.pdf

[1] The distant ones.

But looking at the platforms themselves, 13 & 14 are physically to the
right of 11 & 12. It's just the access route that uses the old
cartway between 10 & 11.

And the lift access from Fairfield Street stops at Platform 12 before
going up to the link bridge for 13 & 14 (the shortest way of getting
there from the taxi rank or metrolink).

I can just about remember the ticket office on Fairfield Street - now
an emergency exit only - was this ever a separate station or was it
always part of the former London Road?

In message , at 21:33:35 on
Tue, 12 Jun 2007, G remarked:
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:25:38 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

Contrast with somewhere like Manchester
Piccadilly where two of the platforms are in a completely different
place - and the icing on the cake is that when you stand on the
concourse the platform numbers go 1-10, 13-14 [1], 11-12; although I'm
not claiming that 11-12 are a different set from 1-10.

http://www.networkrail.co.uk/documen...Piccadilly.pdf

[1] The distant ones.

But looking at the platforms themselves, 13 & 14 are physically to the
right of 11 & 12. It's just the access route that uses the old
cartway between 10 & 11.

Yes, but it really looks odd when you look up at the signs !

And the lift access from Fairfield Street stops at Platform 12 before
going up to the link bridge for 13 & 14 (the shortest way of getting
there from the taxi rank or metrolink).

I can just about remember the ticket office on Fairfield Street - now
an emergency exit only - was this ever a separate station or was it
always part of the former London Road?

I visited recently, but that was the first time for over 25 years and I
don't remember much about it from then.
--
Roland Perry