Salisbury Platform 5 for passenger use

[zwk500]

I was just wondering though, unless you fence off an unused platform face, the hazard for people who can’t see too well is the same whether there are public train services or not. So the fitting of tactiles doesn’t necessarily mean the early return to use for passengers? Isn’t it Kings Cross where they took a platform & track out of use in the suburban shed, but still fitted tactiles down both sides of the extended platform?

I'm sure I've seen tactiles around other vertical drops, not just Platform edges (used or unused). Although I'm a little surprised they didn't fence off the King's Cross platform.

 

[Meerkat]

I was just wondering though, unless you fence off an unused platform face, the hazard for people who can’t see too well is the same whether there are public train services or not. So the fitting of tactiles doesn’t necessarily mean the early return to use for passengers?

This is true, but doesn’t explain the orange carriage position markings on the platform.

 

[Towers]

This is true, but doesn’t explain the orange carriage position markings on the platform.

They’ll have been done as part of the work to do the whole station presumably, a bit of logical ‘future proofing’ as they call it. Either that or there was an instruction to do “all platforms” and nobody thought about the ones that aren’t in use!