Same service regularly reported with incorrect platform on RTT

[TUC]

I have noticed on several occasions, including today, that the 1627 Kings Cross-Bradford service is reported on RTT in advance of departure as leaving from platform 7R when actually it is platform 5 (and is corrected as such after departure). This is no criticism of RTT. I recognise that what they report only reflects the source data they are pulling from, but I am puzzled how the same error has ocurred on several occasions. Can anyone explain why this might occur?

 

[zwk500]

Usually with this sort of platforming discrepancy its because the person doing the station simplifier has had to change it for whatever reason (anything from staff request to planning error) and the change either hasn't been communicated back to the team in MK or they have not yet processed it.

 

[trainophile]

Similar in Liverpool Lime Street, the 1207 LNR to Birmingham New Street very often shows platform 10 on RTT, but departs from platform 6, which is displayed correctly on the station boards. Then once in a while it will catch me out and actually go from P10!

 

[Oxfordblues]

1S25 21:15 Euston-Inverness/Aberdeen/Fort William is booked into Platform 6 at Crewe, but more-often-than-not the scheduled platform is occupied by 5K21 empty stock waiting for a driver to the Carriage Sidings. This often leads to a last-minute alteration of 1S25 to Platform 12 (it's too long for No.11) and a mad dash over the bridge for weary travellers and all their luggage. I often wonder why it's not simply booked into Platform 12 to start with!

 

[TUC]

Same today-1627 Kings Cross-Bradford shows on RTT as platform 7R, but was actually platform 2 (although there was a GC trainset on platform 7, presumably for the 1648 to Sunderland).

 

[SargeNpton]

7R is the platform shown in the train schedule as published by Network Rail for all dates until the end of the current timetable period.

May be operating reasons on the day that are responsible for it using another platform.

 

[TUC]

7R is the platform shown in the train schedule as published by Network Rail for all dates until the end of the current timetable period.

May be operating reasons on the day that are responsible for it using another platform.

I have interpreted 7R as meaning the rear of platform 7. Is that correct or is the 'R' a Network Rail code for the platform shown in the train schedule?

 

[30907]

Same today-1627 Kings Cross-Bradford shows on RTT as platform 7R, but was actually platform 2 (although there was a GC trainset on platform 7, presumably for the 1648 to Sunderland).

Looking at the detail on RTT there was a unit swap, possibly to get the unit off the Up Sunderland back to Crofton Depot.

 

[Watershed]

I have interpreted 7R as meaning the rear of platform 7. Is that correct or is the 'R' a Network Rail code for the platform shown in the train schedule?

That's correct. There are also some other weird and wonderful platform codes that enter the public domain, e.g. 2W/3W/5W at Shipley and 1W at North Berwick, being codes used to tell the signaller/ARS to use the 'warner' route into a given platform (for a reduced overlap, to allow otherwise conflicting moves to be made simultaneously).

 

[GTR fail]

Some trains towards Nunthorpe show on RTT as departing from Middlesbrough platform 3. The only caveat being that Middlesbrough only has 2 platforms…

 

[Starmill]

It's quite a common scenario, and it's why, if you're heading to a platform to board a train without looking at the screen in the station first, you need to look at a source which uses DARWIN (i.e. nearly all of them other than Realtimetrains).

 

[louis97]

Some trains towards Nunthorpe show on RTT as departing from Middlesbrough platform 3. The only caveat being that Middlesbrough only has 2 platforms…

That's an NR issue, they have setup SMART with incorrect platform numbers at their end. RTT will get an update at some point which will mean we will use our own data, which will fix this issue.