Tristán White wrote:

What ****es me off most is when you want to go from Stratford to Liverpool
Street and you have to choose between platforms 5 and 10 (so far apart).

Try the general mess there and beyond whereby stopping trains routinely
switch between the stopping tracks (5 & 8 at Stratford) and fast (9 & 10).
I've known passengers at Forest Gate to walk across the line because the
train comes into a different platform from the one advertised and announced,
station staff using the PA system to tell drivers to wait whilst passengers
change platform, stroppy deaf workmen thinking platform 4 is closed and not
understanding why so many passengers want to get on it in a hurry, and many
a frantic dash (and accident) as people rush to change. Plus when the
stopping services use platforms 9 & 10 it causes chaos for everyone at
Stratford trying to be in the "right part of the train" for exit at their
destination.