[crossposted to uk.transport.london]

Shades of the finished but unopened Shepherd's Bush (Overground)
station on the West London Line, as documented on the London
Connections weblog:

http://londonconnections.blogspot.com/search/label/Shepherd%%27s%%20Bush
(ignore any references to the closure of the Central line's Shepherds
Bush tube station)

How wide is a platforms supposed to be? Well, how long is a piece of
string...

On 22 Feb, 01:13, XxXxXx nowhere.com> wrote:

"Mizter T" gmail.com> wrote

"Platforms to be not less than 6 feet wide"
(from the requirements of the Inspecting Officers of Railways, 29 April
1858)

The standard may have change during the past 150 years.

Peter

On 22 Feb, 02:02, Mizter T gmail.com> wrote:

The guideline is 2.5m. But decoding the article, it looks like Network
Rail wanted to reopen the station before they'd finished all work, and
the 2m width we're talking about is to a temporary construction
hoarding, for which they were presumably hoping to get a waiver.

U

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:35:45 -0000 someone who may be "Peter Masson"
privacy.net> wrote this:-

I may be wrong, but I doubt the original part of the platforms at
South Gyle are that wide, though the later extensions probably are.
The extensions are wider due to a change in the minimum width
requirements, but the extensions are at one end of the platforms
(the ends furthest from the main entrances and exits).

These platforms are dangerously narrow for the number of people
using them and a fair proportion of trains pass them at considerable
speed. If it wasn't for the huge railway cost increases since
privatisation I imagine they would have been widened by now.

On 22 Feb, 08:53, Mr Thant googlemail.com>
wrote:

The idiots at TfL and Merseyrail really ought to be shot. Far better
to have a platform that's 2m wide than no station at all...

On 22 Feb, 09:43, John B johnband.org> wrote:

"Mizter T" gmail.com> wrote in message
news:45901b42-daea-42fd-a52c-8b8f0ec8dc5f@60g2000hsy.googlegroups.com...
[crossposted to uk.transport.london]

Shades of the finished but unopened Shepherd's Bush (Overground)
station on the West London Line, as documented on the London
Connections weblog:

http://londonconnections.blogspot.com/search/label/Shepherd%%27s%%20Bush
(ignore any references to the closure of the Central line's Shepherds
Bush tube station)

How wide is a platforms supposed to be? Well, how long is a piece of
string...

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IMHO it does look like they were 'aving a larf when they pulled out the
string that they were going to use at Shepherd's Bush.

Next to a major new shopping center this was likely to be a busy station.

tim