As title.
Our first ever visit last week and found it confusing.
Firstly, Network Rail do not include platforms 13 or 14 on theit layout map.
They can only be found on a wikipedia map.
Being strangers, trying to get from the main concourse to platform 13 as you approach the stairs, above you is a blue cube sign showing 10 on left and 11, on the right, just in front of the steps.
The sign for 13 and 14 is further along the platform, beyond these steps and I think has an arrow pointing diagonally in direction of upwards?? This of course is correct. Maybe positioned near to the lift?? We weren't sure if it meant to only use the lift?
I then realised to ignore the 10 and 11 sign as that referred to the platforms at lower level we were already on and not the stairs it is placed immediately in front of.
Also, after disembarking the Northern train from Lime Street, we could not find an information board on this platform for the TPE Doncaster service we wanted.
Next time we will know. But being in a hurry not to miss a connection, confusing signs was the last thing we wanted as we are in our 70s and can't hurry along like we used to!
As I say, being first timers here, it was not the best experience.
Off topic really, for my title heading, but still relevant. When I was planning our trip from Spalding to Liverpool, I also found that Doncaster had very poor station layout maps, provided by LNER and also National Rail. It did not show everything and if you zoomed in, it just became blurry when trying to get better detail. In any case, that one was more like a watercolour picture, not a proper draughtsman's map.
I was trying to research the layout of where we crossed the tracks to change trains from EMR to TPE and vice versa.
Rob
Our first ever visit last week and found it confusing.
Firstly, Network Rail do not include platforms 13 or 14 on theit layout map.
They can only be found on a wikipedia map.
Being strangers, trying to get from the main concourse to platform 13 as you approach the stairs, above you is a blue cube sign showing 10 on left and 11, on the right, just in front of the steps.
The sign for 13 and 14 is further along the platform, beyond these steps and I think has an arrow pointing diagonally in direction of upwards?? This of course is correct. Maybe positioned near to the lift?? We weren't sure if it meant to only use the lift?
I then realised to ignore the 10 and 11 sign as that referred to the platforms at lower level we were already on and not the stairs it is placed immediately in front of.
Also, after disembarking the Northern train from Lime Street, we could not find an information board on this platform for the TPE Doncaster service we wanted.
Next time we will know. But being in a hurry not to miss a connection, confusing signs was the last thing we wanted as we are in our 70s and can't hurry along like we used to!
As I say, being first timers here, it was not the best experience.
Off topic really, for my title heading, but still relevant. When I was planning our trip from Spalding to Liverpool, I also found that Doncaster had very poor station layout maps, provided by LNER and also National Rail. It did not show everything and if you zoomed in, it just became blurry when trying to get better detail. In any case, that one was more like a watercolour picture, not a proper draughtsman's map.
I was trying to research the layout of where we crossed the tracks to change trains from EMR to TPE and vice versa.
Rob