JohnG

On Jun 21, 10:11�pm, wensleyd...@pacersplace.org.uk (Neil Williams)
wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:49:08 +0100, "Paul Scott"
>
> <notvalidpmsc...@> wrote:
> >How are they getting on with the works at MK - the signs I saw a few weeks
> >ago suggested a 'new platform' was opening in June - is that presumably the
> >north end of current platform 5 (to become the southbound slow platform 7
> >IIRC)?
>
> Eh?
>
> It's Platform 6, which is on the A5 side of the station, which will be
> a second northbound fast platform to allow non-stop VTs to overtake
> stopped VTs in the new West Coast Taktfahrplan. �It was being fitted
> up with signage and roofing today - nearly done!
>
> Next will be the extension north of platform 1 and the through line
> (which will be the second southbound slow platform, currently a bay).
> Once that is open, the Oxford bay can be started, which will be cut
> into the south end of either 1 or 2 (I'm not sure which).
>
> Not sure of the final numbering scheme or if the bay will be 1a with
> the rest as 1-6 or if it'll just be 1-7 in the end.
>
> Neil
>
> --
> Neil Williams
> Put my first name before the at to reply.

Odds-on favourite is bay to be numbered 1a. It probably saves the cost
of six men and a ladder, line possession and electrical isolation, six
lawyers and a partridge in a pear tree! Say �50,000.
JohnG