Re: platform 0 at Lidcombe

[Homer <trina@ihug.com.au>]

Ben Staples wrote:

> 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.
>

the back edge of the up platform (the unused edge) hasn't got properly finished
coping, though - there's a facing to keep the platform together, but no real
edge; it just sorta drops off, unless they changed it since the easy-access
upgrade