"77002" wrote in message
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TfL are carrying out extensive work on the Hammersmith & City
platforms at Paddington Station. The work is sad on two counts.
Firstly NR and TfL have again failed to move the H&C service back to
platforms 14 and 15. Along with a single lead NR track in from Subway
Junction, to platform 16, this would allow same direction cross-
platform interchange.

What is worth doing depends on the eventual Crossrail service. If, as is
likely, Crossrail is extended to Reading (and especially if it is also
extended to Reading via Heathrow) there aren't likely to be any Relief Line
trains from Paddington terminus. It would then be better to abolish
platforms 13 and 14, and extend 12 to full length (also allowing access to
12 with a full length train in 11). Is there any scope for making 12 an
island, after the style of Kings Cross platform 0?

Peter