Apologies if answered elsewhere ... I did do a bit of a search but found nothing.
Having been interested in railways since the 1960s I was always quite clear that a bay platform was a terminal platform which was let into a longer platform (usually a through platform but on occasion a longer terminal platform). So the west facing terminal platforms at Stalybridge are both bays, and platform 17 at Leeds is a bay....but ordinary terminal platforms with barriers leading onto a concourse are not bays (generally speaking).
A fair rule of thumb would be that to gain access to a bay platform you had to walk along another platform.
In particular Manchester Victoria had about 10 terminal platforms where the Metrolink station is now ...these were not bays.
These days it seems to be increasingly the case that ordinary terminal platforms are called bays.
Any views on this?
Having been interested in railways since the 1960s I was always quite clear that a bay platform was a terminal platform which was let into a longer platform (usually a through platform but on occasion a longer terminal platform). So the west facing terminal platforms at Stalybridge are both bays, and platform 17 at Leeds is a bay....but ordinary terminal platforms with barriers leading onto a concourse are not bays (generally speaking).
A fair rule of thumb would be that to gain access to a bay platform you had to walk along another platform.
In particular Manchester Victoria had about 10 terminal platforms where the Metrolink station is now ...these were not bays.
These days it seems to be increasingly the case that ordinary terminal platforms are called bays.
Any views on this?