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Holding out for a zero: why stations number platforms '0'

Journey to ‘Zero’. Several stations around the country now have a Platform 0 - this is Cardiff Central. ALAMY.

Andy Comfort finds out about a way to increase platform capacity without renumbering the whole station - and locates a few examples.

“A zero itself is nothing, but without a zero you cannot count anything. Therefore, a zero is something, yet zero.”




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