Re: platform 0 at Lidcombe

["rod gayford" <rodjg@ozemail.com.au>]

I am not sure if you are referring to Lidcombe or Epping re Easy Access
Upgrade, but if it is Epping full copping was installed early last year to
replace the unfinished edge. Looks 100% better.

Cheers
RJG

Homer <trina@ihug.com.au> wrote in article
<36D69E27.5ADCC552@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
> 
>