Jamie Thompson

On 19 Jul, 15:05, "Paul Scott" <notvalidpmsc...@> wrote:
> IIRC the inner pair, the fasts, are bidirectional, so the LH or RH pair can
> be used, and apparently the gap between the inner pair is wider than
> historically provided,  enough to allow decent speeds on the pair in use.
> But the platforms then don't allow for stops in both directions of course,
> being only on the outer tracks.

Excellent point - hadn't thought of that; it would be another
advantage of island platforms between the fast and slows I guess.
You'd have to have all manner of nasty rarely used crossovers in place
to sort that out. I'd imagine in the old days if they wanted to keep a
station like that open they might just knock together a temporary
wooden platform and place it over the out-of use lines. Quick
makeshift solutions are a lot easier when the H&SE aren't involved. :)