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AJP

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What is the Biggest station in the UK? I mean in sense on how many platforms.

My first guess would be Edinburgh Waverley with 21 platforms. :D

Im properly wrong though :roll:
 
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I think its Clapham Junction but I dont know how many platforms it has...
 

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Clapham Junction (which is essentially 3 different stations joined together and sharing the same name & platform sequence) only has 16 platforms (Numbered 2-17).

Edinburgh AFAIAA doesn't have 21 platforms, they are numbered up to 21, but they aren't all in use, with some different numbers being the same platform.

The most is Waterloo. 1-19 on the domestic side. International is another 5. Waterloo East has A to D, and the Waterloo & City Line platforms are numbered 25 and 26. Then the "real" Underground platforms add another 6, for 36.
 

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joea1 said:
I think Waterloo has 20 domestic platforms.

No, there are def. 19, as stated in both Wikipedia *spits* and also on SimSig.
 

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I'm fairly certain it's 20, which is used for charters, HSTs and Reading services.
 

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You have the main platforms (1-17) then a small walk over to 18 & 19 then you have to go downstairs and into the 'International' section to get access to platform 20.
 

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theres some station on the continant, or so I here, that has around 89 platforms, whether this was true or not i dont know. (just if there is, I dont envy the platform announcer)
 

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What about Grand Central, New York?
Largest in the world by platform numbers, 44, with 67 tracks.
 
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