On Dec 15, 1:47*pm, 1506 wrote:

Perhaps worse was the loss of the original platforms 3 and 4 when the
cab road was removed. *Now they have been rebuilt but are much
shorter. *We would be better off today if the original platforms had
been kept and renumbered 5 and 6.

They were, briefly, before they were removed. Marylebone had never in
it's history had more than four platforms before that time, and I
doubt if there was any reason to think that it wold need more in the
future. The redevelopment didn't reduce the capacity of the station,
it just eliminated the very wide and unneeded cab road. Why was it
built that wide in the first place?