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March 4th 11, 10:53 AM posted to uk.transport,uk.transport.london

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Why no assigned platforms?

Greetings.

In article , d
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On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 11:38:53 +0000
Tristan Miller wrote:
difficult to walk through. Once a platform is announced (often only a
few minutes before the train departs), everyone waiting for that train
suddenly rushes to the departure gate, resulting in a queue and further
congestion. Then everyone with a seat reservation scrambles to find the
correct car. All this must be a nightmare for those with reduced mobility
and/or heavy luggage.

Any trains that have seat reservations will be announced a lot sooner
than a few minutes before departure.

That hasn't been my experience at Euston and King's Cross. (Mind you, I
haven't used those stations for over a year, so things may have changed in
the meantime.)

And unless you're a regular user
you're not going to know where your carraige will stop on the platform
anyway

You will with the train diagrams I mentioned. These are posted on the
platforms of pretty much every DB station.

so you'll just have people milling about on the platform instead
of the concourse.

If a train station has 20 platforms, and each train holds 500 people, then
isn't it better to have 500 people waiting on each platform than 10,000
people waiting on the concourse?

Regards,
Tristan

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