Talk:Split platform

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There is another possible meaning to this term, which is when a platform is split operationally into two or more sections, allowing more than one train to use it at once. In the UK, this is often by having different sections (eg 4a and 4b - some stations, such as Leeds, have c and even d sections).

What's being described in this article is either a split level station (eg Westminster on the London Underground Jubilee Line, where the platforms of one direction are above those of the other, or a split height platform (eg Mossley Street on Manchester Metrolink) which has/had low and high sections (these are being removed in Manchester).

Rotherham Central is proposed to have a split platform with split heights, having low and high platforms for low and high floor trains along the same platform face.

This could be made into a fuller article, but I wouldn't want to just delete or massively alter what's there without one of the original authors having some input... Aboodoo (talk) 10:26, 24 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Which mainline railway stations have a split platform?

Does Gloucester have a split platform? Does Clapham Junction Platforms 1 & 2 count as a split platform? I Like The british Rail Class 483 (talk) 15:17, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No and no. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 18:51, 17 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Why? I Like The british Rail Class 483 (talk) 21:12, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Read the very first sentence: A split platform is a station that has a platform for each track, split onto two or more levels. At both Gloucester and Clapham Junction, none of the platforms are at a different level. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 13:13, 22 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe it should be renamed from Split Platform to Split Level Platform. To make it clear that it is not about where some stations have platforms split horizontally. I Like The british Rail Class 483 (talk) 17:00, 22 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

All stations having two or more platforms with one or more tracks between them have platforms split horizontally. It's not an unusual characteristic. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 18:38, 22 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I mean when they are like Gloucester or Clapham Junction platforms 1 & 2 where one side platform has been split into two side plafotrms. I Like The british Rail Class 483 (talk) 08:29, 23 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

How are they split onto two or more levels? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 18:26, 23 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Australian example?

I think Town Hall railway station, Sydney might be an example, as when you take the escalators down to the deepest platform, you pass by other platforms along the way. I'm not 100% sure but they also seem staggered. Fork99 (talk) 07:23, 21 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]