I’ve taken the liberty of annotating the position of some of the insulators and joints, from a recent picture, then it’s easier to see the contact and support wire position.
Totally agree, Waverley is bewildering for anyone who doesn't know it very well and isn't physically fit, and it isn't getting any better with ever more platforms added. And even when you know and are up to the scramble it can be very annoying.
What do you suggest for a major station that is a major terminal and through station with a major building right in the middle of it?
Nothing! I was just sympathising with @6Z09 and trying to suggest one way of getting to grasp the complexity.
Unless it's improved in the couple of years since I was last there, some better platform direction signage would help a lot. Big signs at strategic places showing the direction to take for each platform.
There’s an interesting point to be made whenever claims come up that such and such a station is listed, and therefore can only be wired with great difficulty. If you look for pictures of existing wired major stations like Waverley, such as Newcastle, York, Paddington, you usually have to search for the wiring. They really are able to wire up these buildings with very little effect on the general appearance.
True on the west side, but as 8, 9 and 10 are through platforms, then the east side sequence going south is 7, 10, 9, 8.
It's funny how different people visualise things. I completely take your point, but it's never bothered me that 8, 9 and 10 are numbered in this way. But yes, the logic that makes 7 and 11 different ends of the same platform suggests that the other through roads should be numbered like that.
I think it would probably all have worked better if it was numbered up the West side and then back down the east. I could even be tempted by the idea of numbering the east platforms as 20-25. There are fewer platforms that don't fit the pattern that way. Still that breaks down a bit with the new platforms extending so far up, and we are where we are. I do often struggle with where through platforms are though
That's right, the platforms are an extension of those into the area previously occupied by the taxi rank.
Presumably 10, 9, 8 were not considered long enough to be split into separately numbered east and west ends and, (perhaps based on normal usage at the time), were considered west end platforms?
In my opinion 10 minutes is more than reasonable for most people to connect anywhere in Waverley.
