On 11/04/2025 17:09, Andy Townsend wrote:
PS: One challenging "etc." might be St Pancras where platforms 1-4 serving Sheffield and 12 or so serving Kent are each side of the international platforms - do regulars think that is 1 station or 2 (or 2 or 3)?
A single railway station with multiple lines and/or operating companies is fairly common in the UK. I don't think many people would consider such circumstances to be two (or more!) stations. Certainly, in railway usage, it's always a single station. Two different, but adjacent, stations will always have different CRS codes and, more importantly different names. Waterloo East is a different station to Waterloo, for example. But London St Pancras International (to use its current full name) is a single station, despite the fairly clear split between domestic and international platforms.
From a mapping perspective, it can be useful to indicate which parts of a station are used by different lines or operators. How to do that is probably best left to people with actual on-the-ground experience of using the station, since it isn't always immediately obvious from official diagrams and aerial/streetside imagery. But, at least IMO, they shouldn't be mapped as distinct stations.
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