On 01/10/2012 17:12, D7666 wrote:
On Oct 1, 4:43 pm, "Paul Rigg" wrote:
Huddersfield has platforms numbered 1 2 4 5 6 and 8.

Not sure what happened to 3 and 7 though perhaps someone will come along to
tell us.

The oddest one I've seen (a bit OT this) was Newark Airport station in New
Jersey where the platforms are, if I recall, numbered 1,2,5 and 6. The
missing numbers 3 and 4 are the through roads used by non stopping trains
(Acela, etc). The station is fairly new and would never have had platforms
on the through roads, though I suppose we should bear in mind that the
Americans refer to track numbers, rather than platforms (Track 29, boy you
can give me a shine, etc)

Such numbering of all tracks with or without platforms is normal on
just about every railway in just about every country I have been to
outside of UK and IE.

Various Slavic types seem to go in for numbering platforms and then
tracks (or is it faces?), so there are two numbers to precisely locate a
train.


--
Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK

"D7666" wrote in message
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Such numbering of all tracks with or without platforms is normal on
just about every railway in just about every country I have been to
outside of UK and IE.

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Nick

The Dutch definitely do, not sure about the Belgians. The latter don't have
many stations with through lines anyway, the only one I can think of at the
moment is Charleroi Sud.

John

John C wrote:

"D7666" wrote in message
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Such numbering of all tracks with or without platforms is normal on
just about every railway in just about every country I have been to
outside of UK and IE.

--
Nick

The Dutch definitely do, not sure about the Belgians. The latter don't have
many stations with through lines anyway, the only one I can think of at the
moment is Charleroi Sud.

Indeed the Dutch number all their tracks. You will have a hard time to
find platform 3, 6, 9 or 12 at Amsterdam Centraal.

Well I used both Prague HL N and Ceske Budjevice last week and they seem to
have a system of numbering both faces of the platform with the same number
to make sure that you go up the correct subway steps and then indicating
which side of the platform the train is on at the top of the staires. No
numbering of non platform faces there.

On 2012\10\01 16:43, Paul Rigg wrote:
Huddersfield has platforms numbered 1 2 4 5 6 and 8.

Not sure what happened to 3 and 7 though perhaps someone will come along
to tell us.


The oddest one I've seen (a bit OT this) was Newark Airport station in
New Jersey where the platforms are, if I recall, numbered 1,2,5 and
6. The missing numbers 3 and 4 are the through roads used by non
stopping trains (Acela, etc). The station is fairly new and would
never have had platforms on the through roads, though I suppose we
should bear in mind that the Americans refer to track numbers, rather
than platforms (Track 29, boy you can give me a shine, etc)

Sound like an excellent bit of forward thinking. While the drawback of
duplicate platform numbers is obvious, I can think of no drawback with
missing numbers.

On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 16:43:26 +0100, "Paul Rigg"
wrote:

Huddersfield has platforms numbered 1 2 4 5 6 and 8.

Not sure what happened to 3 and 7 though perhaps someone will come along to
tell us.

Edinburgh Waverly had a lot more missing before the recent
renumbering.

On 01/10/12 23:42, mcp wrote:
Edinburgh Waverly had a lot more missing before the recent
renumbering.

The filled-in ones at the east end?

Ian

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On 01/10/12 23:42, mcp wrote:
Edinburgh Waverly had a lot more missing before the recent
renumbering.

The filled-in ones at the east end?

Yes. When I was a lad, 1 was the through platform at the north side, 2 & 3
were the next bay which was taken over by the Post Office, the next bays
were 4 & 5, 6 & 7 and 8 & 9 (which became parking). 10 & 11 were the two
ends of the southern through road, then 12 & 13, 14 & 15, 16 & 17 were
west-facing bays numbered from south to north. 18, as I recall, was a
single track bay under the northern access ramp and 19 was the other end of
1. 20 & 21 were the 'sub' - the island platform outside the main shed to
the south.

The remains were still numbered thus until quite recently, when they added
a couple of new platforms and renumbered everything, much to the confusion
of old men like me. Fortunately there are still staff around who will
translate.

Peter

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According to the signs this new platform is for electric trains only, yet
I
saw an HST set in it on Saturday (13:36). Admittedly the engine wasn't
running on the power car under the buildings.

Is this a regular occurrence? If so why not change the signs?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Kumamoto (Kyushu, Japan) had platforms 0A and 0B when we were there a couple
of years ago but they've since built the Shinkansen and it wouldn't surprise
me if they renumbered the whole station.