Re: Longest platform?

["Michael Walker" <walker@hotkey.net.au>]

>No you can get a complete train into the platform and it will be next to
>the platform face for the whole length.  But it isn't realy
>a one train platform, it is realy 2 1/2 platforms joined together end to
>end.  1 west with the current layout could only hold a 3 car train to be
>clear at each end.
>
>So it is the longest platform in Australia, but it isn't a one train
>platform.
>
Wouldn't that depend on how long the train was? Is there any operational
reason why say a 20 carriage train couldn't be put in Platform 1/14?
(Besides the fact where would you run it!)