Stratford - new DLR platforms

On 8 Jun, 18:02, umpston <umps...@m> wrote:

> The Great Eastern Railway (later LNER) ran passenger services from
> Fenchurch St. to Stratford via Bow Road for many years. The two bay
> platforms were intended for this but never used since these trains
> were axed in the late 1940s, and Bow Road station closed, before the
> Stratford reconstruction was completed.

Was track ever installed in platform 7? I don't remember ever seeing
any, but the platforms were never re-nmbered to eliminate the unused
ones, indeed, in more recent times platform 10a was created to avoid
re-numbering existing ones. The only old platform at Stratford that
had its number 'reclaimed', and used elsewhere.

Stratford is the only station with more than two platforms I can think
of where the lowest (1) and highest (15) numbered platforms are next
to each other.

Also, it must surely be the only station where four consecutivly
numbered platforms, 2-5, have four different elextrification systems,
at least for a few more days. Of course, it also had two other
systems in the past.

How are the new DLR platforms going to be numbered?

"Stephen Furley" <furles@mail.croydon.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> On 8 Jun, 18:02, umpston <umps...@m> wrote:
>
>> The Great Eastern Railway (later LNER) ran passenger services from
>> Fenchurch St. to Stratford via Bow Road for many years. The two bay
>> platforms were intended for this but never used since these trains
>> were axed in the late 1940s, and Bow Road station closed, before the
>> Stratford reconstruction was completed.
>
> Stratford is the only station with more than two platforms I can think
> of where the lowest (1) and highest (15) numbered platforms are next
> to each other.

How about Edinburgh Waverley, where 1 and 20 are together?

> Also, it must surely be the only station where four consecutivly
> numbered platforms, 2-5, have four different elextrification systems,
> at least for a few more days. Of course, it also had two other
> systems in the past.
>
> How are the new DLR platforms going to be numbered?
>

I would suggest 4A and 4B if I was a betting man, as the whole station
needs renumbering, but it would probably make sense to wait until all the
alterations to provide new NLL platforms and the new westbound Central line
platform are completed.

Paul S

"Paul Scott" <notvalidpmscott@> wrote in message
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> "Stephen Furley" <furles@mail.croydon.ac.uk> wrote in message
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>> How are the new DLR platforms going to be numbered?
>>
>
> I would suggest 4A and 4B if I was a betting man, as the whole station
> needs renumbering, but it would probably make sense to wait until all the
> alterations to provide new NLL platforms and the new westbound Central
> line platform are completed.
>

On second thoughts, don't place any bets, the platforms are already shown as
4A and 4B on TfL's drawings of the Stratford upgrades...

Paul

alex_t wrote:

> After a second (much longer) look I must say that I really like the
> new station. Simple, elegant, and spacious :-)

I've not yet been up on the platform, but the numbering is now even more
screwed up as announcements about "Platform 4" mean the now closed old DLR
platform...

alex_t wrote:

>> I've not yet been up on the platform, but the numbering is now even more
>> screwed up as announcements about "Platform 4" mean the now closed old
>> DLR
>> platform...

> Well, I guess there will be no confusion, since platform 4 will be
> closed in the future.

Yes but what are they calling the new DLR platforms? There's nothing logical
short of redoing the entire station.

> And all announcements about new DLR station will
> be heard only near the DLR platforms.

So why are most Stratford announcements about specific platforms broadcast
to all and sundry?

Paul Scott wrote:

>> Yes but what are they calling the new DLR platforms? There's nothing
>> logical short of redoing the entire station.

> As I've mentioned in another post, the TfL website drawings of the
> upgraded station show the DLR platforms as 4A and 4B.

Which makes no sense when they're the wrong side of platform 3.

> One of the passenger focus reports asks for a complete renumbering when
> the new NLL platforms, 12A/B, and the new Central line westbound platform,
> 3A have all been completed. There will be 19 platform faces ultimately
> AFAICT.

Will this ever get implemented?