Long platforms

["Roderick Smith" <rodsmith@werple.net.au>]

As posted earlier, Albury sg is 456 m.
Albury bg is 334 m (14 carriages).

The semantics over one train vs two train can be ignored:
Flinders St pfm 1 is not the only multi-part platform.
It has been used for long weekend-trains trips (with sleeping and dining
cars) back in the 1960s.

Flinders St pfm 10 & 12 held a ~20 carriage Traralgon special in 1998.

Most Spencer St platforms have intermediate crossovers to allow independent
use of the inner and outer ends.

Albury sg was built at this length so that two sg trains could be docked to
connect with the northbound Spirit of Progress.

An interesting discovery is Dunedin (New Zealand): the 1906 station had a
platform 872 m long; it was still at this length in 1968 (and probably
today too).

Although the claim was never made, this would have been the longest
platform in the world until the Chicago red line was built (1960s?).
I don't know how contemporary magazines and the Guiness editors missed
this.

What are the lengths of Sydney pfm 2 and Sydney pfm 3?
-- 
Regards
Roderick Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor