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Trivia: largest station (by platform count) with no bay platforms.

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Was just curious about this one. The most obvious one i can think of is Peterborough with 7 platforms and no bays but there must be a better one somewhere?
 
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mjmason1996 said:
Was just curious about this one. The most obvious one i can think of is Peterborough with 7 platforms and no bays but there must be a better one somewhere?
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Cardiff Central and Gatwick Airport equal that (although if you count 3a and 3b as separate platforms then Cardiff beats Peterborough).

Before Platform 7 was rendered disused Guildford would have beaten that with 8.
 
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Platform 1 is used by terminating London Overground trains form Stratford. It’s a bay platform.
 
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Is the UK (and maybe also Ireland) the only country to talk of 'platforms' where others use the term 'tracks' (voies, binari etc)? Strictly speaking, a bay 'platform' like Clapham Junction no 1, is just a track on one side of the same platform that also serves track 2. Hence a four track through station will normally have two platforms, each with two platform faces. Pedantic I know, and we are well used to the usual terminology, but I wonder why the divergence in custom.
 
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The Folkstone/Cheriton Eurotunnel/Getlink terminal has ten single through tracks flanked by platforms on both sides so scores 20 (and not a 'passenger' in sight). Vehicles may be loaded and unloaded from the shuttles either side.
 
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Does Berlin Hbf have any bay platforms? That’s pretty big over two levels?

New York Penn also I don’t think has any bays.
 
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WindsorJoe said:
Platform 1 is used by terminating London Overground trains form Stratford. It’s a bay platform.
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Depends on how you define "bay". Any track with a buffer stop at the end or one where the platform wraps around the end of the track?

Does Omskirk have two bays?
 
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Derby I think now has 7 platforms and no bay platforms since the re-signaling project,
 
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HamworthyGoods said:
Does Berlin Hbf have any bay platforms? That’s pretty big over two levels?
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It has 14 (ignoring the U-bahn). Duesseldorf Hbf has 16 with no bays, Hannover and Duisburg 12 - the Prussian military insisted on through stations, and these 3 are clearly rebuilds post-WW2. Koeln Hbf is 11. But Nuremberg beats them all at 21.
 
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30907 said:
It has 14 (ignoring the U-bahn). Duesseldorf Hbf has 16 with no bays, Hannover and Duisburg 12 - the Prussian military insisted on through stations, and these 3 are clearly rebuilds post-WW2. Koeln Hbf is 11. But Nuremberg beats them all at 21.
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Thanks I was pretty sure it wouldn’t be a UK station - we like our bay platforms and the OP didn’t specify which country just the biggest.

Wonder if New York Penn is another possibility or how about Madrid Charmatin?
 
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PeterC said:
Depends on how you define "bay". Any track with a buffer stop at the end or one where the platform wraps around the end of the track?

Does Omskirk have two bays?
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I think here "bay" is being used as short for "platform that a train cannot run through to a line or siding beyond"- so eg at Clapham 1 is a bay but 2 isn't, as there's a siding
 
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