On 10 Oct, 11:55, wrote:
Sounds like utter ********, which wouldn't be surprising given the
general ****poor quality of the Eye's railway reporting. A fiver says
it opens with LO branding and the current platform length on November
11.

Its been mentioned somewhere a few weeks ago which I can't find at the mo,
and it isn't the length, its the width, the yellow line is in the middle of
the platform...

That's slightly saner - the '18 inches of length' point as reported in
the Eye made no sense whatsoever, but I can see that adding 45cm of
width to a full-length platform could be an expensive undertaking, and
that a narrow platform might actually be dangerous (whereas a short
platform can be dealt with by SDO). In which case, somebody involved
with the design needs shot.

Does Clapham Common meet those standards? I've always thought that
must be terrifying during the rush hour.

Most definitely not, and most definitely yes - but there's a concept
called "grandfather rights" which effectively means that the railways
are allowed to do dangerous things they've always done, but not to
start doing new dangerous things.

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