Next New Platform at Newcastle?

[swt_passenger]

Moderator note: split from

Newcastle Platforms 11/12

I was under the impression that Platform 12 is now OOU, but I've noticed TPE have a few services booked onto 11 with the timetable change with a 5car 802 which normally wouldn't fit as its about 25m short. Are they planning on using 11 with 12 being closed off now and just having the back car...

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I suspect losing P12 fits quite well with the planned new pedestrian entrance, beyond the south end of the office building on what is now known as Central Parkway, (formerly the north end of Forth Banks), and also with the associated passenger circulation area in the area of the old parcels and motorail platforms.

(It’s probably more for the speculation forum, but I suspect it’s more likely there’ll be a need for a future north facing platform, (yet another P0), than for a reopened P12.)

 

[xotGD]

I suspect it’s more likely there’ll be a need for a future north facing platform, (yet another P0),

In other words, a reinstatement of the old Platform 6.

 

[swt_passenger]

In other words, a reinstatement of the old Platform 6.

Yes, it would be.

 

[zwk500]

(It’s probably more for the speculation forum, but I suspect it’s more likely there’ll be a need for a future north facing platform, (yet another P0), than for a reopened P12.)

What might be slightly better is installation of a scissors crossing vice standard crossover at P7/8, and extending those faces to allow 5x25 in at least one end, ideally with 4x23 in the other.