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Trivia: Through stations with platforms numbered in 'reverse' order.

D6130

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How many through stations in Great Britain can you think of that have their platforms numbered in 'reverse' order....i.e. with platform 1 being the furthest away from the main - or only - station entrance?

I'll start the ball rolling with Carlisle.
 
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Manchester Oxford Road perhaps? Nearest platforms to the entrance are numbered 4 and 5 (bay platform). Platform 1 is up and over the pedestrian footbridge and is relatively inaccessible.
 

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Shrewsbury got round the problem by eliminating the remote Platform 1 entirely :).
 

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Andover and Salisbury both have their station buildings on the south side of the platforms, which puts the low number platforms away from the entrance.
 

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Several suburban stations on four-tracked main lines for starters, where tracks are paired by use - Twyford, Maidenhead, Langley, West Ealing, Brentwood, probably most of the rest of the Great Western/Great Eastern Elizabeth Line stations but these ones jump out. Presumably the same is also true of some West Coast stations, but I'm less familiar with those. I think Wolverton counts but I can't remember where the entrance is exactly. You could also make an argument for Scarborough given the way the platforms are staggered there - it's a long walk to platform 1.

In terms of stations which have a platform 1 in regular use (which most of those stations don't have), I'm going to argue that Seamer counts - its island platform is accessed via a foot crossing over the platform 2 line. Cottingham's platform 1 is on the other side from the station entrance as well. Presumably this was motivated by a desire to have platform 1 on the "up" side.
 

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Another nomination is Bolton. Platforms 1, 2 and 3 further away from the main entrance / ticket office than platforms 4 and 5 are.
 

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Fareham. Altered following electrification, as the new direct London service could then go from P1.

So there’ve been previous discussions about this from that other perspective, ie ‘why isn’t the main London bound platform number 1’. Many are, but some are not. Some original main entrances have become secondary as stations have been improved or the local area has developed around the station in ways not originally expected.
 

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Edinburgh Waverley?

I don't even know where platform 1 is, it's one of the most confusing stations I've ever used.
 

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Edinburgh Waverley?

I don't even know where platform 1 is, it's one of the most confusing stations I've ever used.
Under the old numbering, the “back entrance” (from Calton Road) landed you right by 1 - the numbering was then clockwise from there (albeit with a lot of gaps at the low end) until you got to 19 which was at the other end of 1.
In theory, at least, 1 was the main London platform (certainly until 7 was reinstated).
 

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Edinburgh Waverley?

I don't even know where platform 1 is, it's one of the most confusing stations I've ever used.
Looking down on the station with north at the top the platforms are numbered clockwise. 1-7 down the east side, 8 is the southern face of the island platform over the wall, 9 the northern face, then going up the west side from 10 to 20. Platforms 20 and 1, and 19 and 2, are continuous with a scissors crossover in the middle. Ditto 11 and 7.
 

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Canterbury East and Herne Bay are examples of this, both numbered so that the up line (To London) is platform 1, despite the entrances being on the opposing side.
 

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Cardiff Queen Street. When the disused platform nearest the entrance was brought back into use it became platform 5 while the others were renumbered in descending order, platform 2 and 1 being the furthest from the entrance
 

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Portsmouth & Southsea? 3&4 ground floor near the entrance. 1&2 upstairs. Also, strangely the order of platforms is 4,3,1,2.
 

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Springburn. The ticket office is on a bridge but to reach platform 1, its a matter of crossing the through tracks by a footbridge. Dunfermline Town as well. The ticket office is on platform 2.
 

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How many through stations in Great Britain can you think of that have their platforms numbered in 'reverse' order....i.e. with platform 1 being the furthest away from the main - or only - station entrance?
Welwyn Garden City, Hitchin, Biggleswade and Sandy.

Welwyn Garden City and Hitchin had previously had platform 1 nearest the entrance but were renumbered in the NSE era.
 

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Balcombe, Ashford International, Westgate-on-Sea, Headcorn, Bat & Ball... Loads, in fact.
 

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Littleborough

(I *think* with the Calder Valley stations any station with the main entrance / station building on the north side of the line will tick this particular box as the L&Y’s convention was for the platform towards Manchester to be platform 1)
 

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Rock Ferry, with the bays being 3/4 and through platforms 1/2, and marginally further away from the entrance. I'm not sure what the platform numbers were when the other set of through lines were in use. Electrification was also a significant factor in platform utilisation at RFY as well of course.
 

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Portsmouth & Southsea. The high-level platform remodelling has probably had a part to play in that.

Swindon as well. Platform 1 is the furthest platform from the station entrance.
 

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