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Old February 4th 05, 08:24 AM posted to uk.transport.london
James Farrar James Farrar is offline
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Default White City station on Hammermith & City

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 05:56:27 -0000, John Rowland
wrote:

"TheOneKEA" wrote in message
oups.com...
John Rowland wrote:
"TheOneKEA" wrote in message
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Even if the trains will never be longer,
having a platform bigger than your train makes the
T/Op's life much less stressful.

... and the passengers' lives more stressful.


How so?


Because they wouldn't know where to stand until the train stops.

No one on the Wimbledon branch seems to mind.


That's because the drivers of the shorter trains carefully stop at the
foot
entrance end of every platform. If they treated long platforms as an easy
target on which they can lazily stop anywhere, the passengers would mind.


Ah, so basically they need car stop marks?