It is going to be very interesting to see how platforms 13/14 at Picadilly cope with these longer trains. Badly I suspect, adding to existing chaos.
The problem with the way these platforms is being used with the new timetable is that you have passenger flows that used to wait on larger platforms under the main shed cramming on to what was already a rammed platform. Tonight I experienced an Edinburgh TPE followed by a York TPE followed by a Lime Street East Midlands. Absolute carnage. These are all major intercity trains and 3 sets of intercity passengers are being held in a fictional pig pen by a load of understandably less than bothered minimum wage 'security staff'. The signage on the platform is woeful. It is absolutely pathetic.
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When the longer trains come some of the carriages will sit back past the pig pen onto the narrowest part of the platforms. Chaos will become even more chaotic and just bloody dangerous. You would not let your Mum catch a train off this platform, simple as that.
Building the chord without platforms 15/16 was a monumental cock-up.
