Platform 14 at BTM

Can someone please tell me why there is no platform 14 at Bristol
Temple Meads, why does it go 13 and then 15?

long@distance.clara.co.uk (Long Distance Clara) wrote in message news:<klv8hvkjciq7ji2nirsibo1jaitprnt412@>. ..
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 19:18:55 GMT, in uk.railway Geoff Rimmer
> <geoff.rimmer@sillyfish.com> wrote:
>
> >Presumably because of the convention at BTM that the northern end of a
> >platform gets an odd number (1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15) and the
> >southern end gets an even number (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12). Platform 13 is
> >*not* a through platform, and so there is no platform 14.
> >
> >The weird one is platform 15 which, if the convention is followed,
> >should be split into 15 and 16.
>
> 15 is not long enough to be split. The east end of all the platforms
> will (just!) fit a 2+8 HST between the signal and the "St Andrews
> Cross", whereas 13 and 15 will fit an HST in the whole length of the
> platform. Besides which I doubt that a new installation of the
> wonderful 'cross' would be allowed.
>
> Also numbering them 13/15 rather than 13/14 helps consistency for
> drivers, who have to be very careful that they stop the correct side
> of the cross! It means that all the East end platforms are odd
> numbers, and there are more trains that way than west-bound.

At first I thought that 1 side was odd and one Even but this was not
correct. Why not remame platform 15 to platform 14. Does anyone know
what will happen to platform 2 when the Mail Trains stop?

Joe Patrick wrote:

> Can someone please tell me why there is no platform 14 at Bristol
> Temple Meads, why does it go 13 and then 15?

Probably for the same reason as there is no Platform 5 at Cardiff - It was a
bay and has been filled in.

"4973" <4973@frequentous.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Joe Patrick wrote:
>
> > Can someone please tell me why there is no platform 14 at Bristol
> > Temple Meads, why does it go 13 and then 15?
>
> Probably for the same reason as there is no Platform 5 at Cardiff - It was
a
> bay and has been filled in.

London Bridge was unusual until it was renumbered around 1974, as it had no
number 5, and never had - at least since Victorian times. Until the early
1950s there was a Number 5 through line, but this was abolished when
platforms were lengthened for the 10-car scheme.

Peter

Why not remame platform 15 to platform 14. Does anyone know
> > > what will happen to platform 2 when the Mail Trains stop?
> >
> > Trains may stop but platforms just keep on going.
>
> By that, I mean what trains will use the platform?

Trains to Portishead

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On 16 Jul 2003 01:07:42 -0700, in uk.railway jpatrick@21fun.co.uk (Joe
Patrick) wrote:

>At first I thought that 1 side was odd and one Even but this was not
>correct. Why not remame platform 15 to platform 14.

To maintain consistency that all east-end platforms are odd-numbered.


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