London Liverpool Street Kinky Platform

[TheEdge]

Just an odd one that popped up on a front end turn today.

Does anyone know why Platform 11, and to a lesser extent 12, at Liverpool Street have a huge great kink in it? It looks like its done to avoid something and I can't imagine that a designer would have designed the platform like that without good reason.

Anyone know any more. The best guesses we could come up with was either a building pile, tube tunnel or buried river.

 

[DarloRich]

dare i ask what happens at a kinky platform?

 

[306024]

Sitting on a train in platform 13 so just been looking at platform 12. Didn't look too kinky to me, platform 15 is kinkier.

If you mean at the country end, the track layout used to support loco moves to and from the holding sidings. Platforms 11 and 12 were good for loco hauled trains as the locos could get on and off the sidings without affecting much else.

 

[Cowley]

dare i ask what happens at a kinky platform?

You used to have to go to Kings Cross for that kind of thing.

 

[aylesbury]

Indeed it was spent many happy hours there watching also used to watch the turntable ,we had cups of tea in the tea bar overlooking the concourse.

 

[DarloRich]

You used to have to go to Kings Cross for that kind of thing.

only those who had to pay for it

 

[eman_resu]

Its only kinky the first time.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Dedicated to services into Essex presumably?