How many has Preston got? In current use for scheduled services there are platforms 1-6 which are split into A and B - so 6 or 12? Then there are two bay platforms - 3C and 4C - are they counted as part of 3 and 4 or separate.? Then there is platform 7 which gets used once in a blue moon - IIRC the last train I saw use it was 4472 - Flying Scotsman back in the 1990s.
There is then a another two platforms which were used by the Royal Mail for years, but platform 0 was used for a while during station refurbishment - however it's out of public use once again. Wikipedia has a handy map - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Preston_railway_station_2008.png 7 is the right most one (numbered as such in the station itself) and 0 is the right hand side of the blue platform) To me the correct answer could be one of 8 (1-6, 3C, 4C), 9 (same plus 7), 14 (1a-6a, 1b-6b, 3c-4c), 15 (same plus 7) or any of those plus 1 (including platform 0). My inclination would be towards 8 or 9 (probably 9) though. How many platforms does Ormskirk have? - there is one physical one in place, but the tracks are cut in half down the middle - the northern half of the platform being part of the national rail network, and the sourthern half being part of Mersey Rail. On 28 June 2012 14:26, Andy Allan <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28 June 2012 14:14, Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > > I thought the railway=station node should be attached to the railway > line. > > But that get's confusing over which line to attach it to, so I like > using it > > as an area. > > I think if it's got the point where you have more than one way > representing the railway, it's time to expand the station node into a > station area, even just approximately. If you have platforms, > buildings, footbridges and whatnot, the idea of a station node becomes > even more unworkable. > > > Does platforms=* count platforms out of use? > > If it used by the travelling public to board trains, then count it. If > not, it's just an oddly shaped pile of bricks, not a platform. > > > I can think of Clapham Junction (platform 1?) that was closed to the > public, > > although I think they pulled up the weeds to use it for the London > > Overground now. > > (Slightly off-topic, but see > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapham_Junction#Platforms ) > > Cheers, > Andy > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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