Railway Platforms - A place for people to browse their phones

Sorry it’s been quite a lot of time since the last post.

If you want to build a railway station { even though you  don’t need to } you need places for the passengers to wait until the trains arrive and board the train and de-board it. These places are called platforms and there are many types of platforms. They are:

Spanish solution boarding:

The term Spanish solution derives from its original use in several stations of the Madrid Metro and Barcelona Metro. The idea of Spanish solution is to maximize the boarding and deboarding capacity of a train by using the doors on both sides of the train. Basically, there are 3 platforms with two on each side of a track. Usually, the inner platform is used for de-boarding and the outer platforms are used for boarding.     

 

Island platform:

As the name suggests, an Island platform is a platform that is sandwiched between the two tracks. The platform, which is in the middle of the station handles all the traffic of the station. This type of platform design is used a lot in Indian suburban railway systems. This mostly uses less space and is the platform type in cross-platform interchanges. { I will be making a post about it later)

 


Side platforms:

 Side platforms are the oldest platform design that has ever existed  and is the most used metros. This design involves two platforms of a decent size. One platform handles left hand traffic, usually the left-hand side, while another handles right hand traffic, usually the right hand side. There is more space in this design than island platforms but not to the same levels as Spanish solution. This also means, if the infrastructure is there, a train can change tracks in the station itself, instead of leaving the train station to do it, like island platforms but track changing has nothing to do with platform design.  



Bay platforms Bay platforms are basically side platforms with a terminus track. (That's it)

 


As you see, there are many ways to build place where people always look at their phones. (Anyway, it doesn't matter)  No other joke? OK, so there are 14 commas in this post. Hope that's a good enough joke

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