Re: platform 0 at Lidcombe

["Ben Staples" <98711576@feline.hawkesbury.uws.EDU.AU>]

Common practice now is to install platform copping on all sides of platforms
that have a track running alongside, even if the trains will never stop
there. At Lidcombe, I assume they will install a fence on the up side of the
platform (the side facing the DnMn), and only use the Platform 0 side.

A good example of this practice is Epping station where all platform edges
have coping ( giving 4 edges) and only three edges are used.

Ben Staples

M.G.Smith wrote in message ...
>I saw a diagram of safeworking in a weekly notice and it says that the new
>platform is platform 0.
>But hang on, there are two sides, one on the up main and one on the new
>shuttle road.
>maybe the other platform number is -1 ?
>Will trains stop at the new up platform or the original (Platform 1)?
>I note that the platform is not very long, and my guess is it can only take
>four cars.
>This would be for the weekday trains, that would normally come from Sydney,
>which is adding congestion to the main line.
>A yo-yo service from Lidcombe to Olympic Park (OP) would not interfere with
>the rest of the system.
>Big events would still see trains going via OP heading west or south, from
>Sydney.
>Regards,
>Michael
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