On Wed, 7 Feb 2018 08:07:46 +0000, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 23:20:54 on Tue, 6 Feb 2018,
Basil Jet remarked:
The railway press seems to have missed this completely.

https://www.barnet.gov.uk/citizen-ho...et/brent-cross
-cricklewood/brent-cross-thameslink.html

Four platforms - when was the last time a new station opened with four
platforms?

I wonder how often trains will stop at the fast up/down platforms?

As often as they stop at West Hampstead on the fast lines ? Up to 6
per hour outside the peaks and maybe more when things go wrong.
Putting only two platforms in at a new station in this area could
leave it in danger of effective isolation when the slow lines are
unavailable.

I think Cambridge North only has three.

All of them well-used.

I'm guessing Luton Airport Parkway,

East Midlands Parkway, Dalston Junction; both with regular trains at all
four platforms all day long.

Heathrow T5, sort of (Provision for four platforms)

Edinburgh Gateway, if you count tram platforms.

and before that God knows when there was another.