Recliner wrote:


I must admit I don't understand why Crossrail and the North Kent line
have separate island platforms, rather than having the Crossrail pair
between the third rail tracks, thus allowing cross-platform
interchanges. The down third rail track could have been re-routed to
the north of the portal, so that it was on the north, rather than the
south of the new Crossrail pair. With that arrangement, both down
tracks would flank one island platform, and both up platforms the
other. It would save a lot of passengers the hassle of having to cross
from island platform to the other.


Unless the Crossrails will shunt from one platform to the other via
sidings, then it'll only reduce platform-changing by 50%, and in the up
direction potentially add confusion about which platform to rush to whilst
changing.


Anna Noyd-Dryver