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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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  • Railbo - 02/06/2025 15:14

    Just an addition on the Haymarket platform zero...from my recollections it was added as part of the (ultimately cancelled) Edinburgh airport rail link. The platform was retained even after the larger project was scrapped when the first SNP adminstration took control at Holyrood.

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