[Proud Salopian]

Originally Posted by mumrar

Shrewsbury has platforms 4-8.

Erm.

Shrewsbury has platforms 1-7. Platforms 1 & 2 have no track, but otherwise are still there. Platform 3 is back in use and has very recently had a lift and passenger waiting room installed. Platforms 4, 5, 6 & 7 are on the main island of the station. As for platform 8... it doesn't exist. I sometimes (jokingly) call the "mini-platform" by Howard Street "platform 8" and the only trains that pull up in that siding are permanent way ones.

So I'm afraid there's nothing really unusual about Shrewsbury's platforms or their numbering!

[jonmorris0844]

Originally Posted by CCF23

Kings Cross is soon to have a platform 0, the new one that's going to be next to platform 1.

It was going to be platform Y, not 0 - but now it appears ALL the platforms are going to be renumbered so it starts at 1 (as you'd expect if common sense is used) and all the others go up by one - which as I said above, puts 9 3/4 in the right place between the main building and the suburban one (assuming it is still going to remain a separate building?)

Clearly there's a cost associated with signalling etc, but I presume someone realised that it needed to be done - and other work was going to be done anyway?

[driver9000]

Originally Posted by kwvr45

Preston has totally silly bay platforms 3c and 4c miles away down the end of the main platforms which are numbered 3 and 4 and not in any way connected with the bays. They are totally out of view from the main part of station so if anything still does use them, god help the passengers actually trying to find the platforms!

The bays at Preston are associated with the main through platforms 3 and 4. Platforms 3 and 4 are split into A and B subsections (north end is A and south end is B). The platforms signs dont make reference to 3a and 4a but departure screens do, this being most obvious when TPE portion trains split. Platforms 3c and 4c are still in daily use mostly by off peak Ormskirk services, by late running trains being terminated at Preston instead of continuing on to Blackpool etc and some Hazel Grove/Buxton services use it around the peak period to save a through platform and shunting. When services are going from the bays the station announcer usually tells passengers that they are at the 'extreme south end of the station'

[EltonRoad]

The two platforms at Oban are still numbered 3 and 4.