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Gaelan Steele @Gaelan@cathode.church
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Idle pondering: in UK English, trains depart from a numbered “platform”; if one physical platform has tracks on either side, or gets two platform numbers. Most US train stations instead use numbered “tracks”, as do French (“voie”), German (“Gleis”), and Italian (“binaro”).

Do any other languages use an equivalent of “platform” for this concept?
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quinn @quinn@chaos.social
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@Gaelan German "Bahnsteig"

somewhat unrelated: in Switzerland you often see "(Bahnsteig-)Kante" ((platform) edge), however this has the same problem: there may be multiple tracks for a single platform edge
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Gaelan Steele @Gaelan@cathode.church
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@quinn to be clear I know the word “Bahnsteig” exists, but you wouldn’t hear an announcement telling you the train to Berlin is on Bahnsteig 5 (it would say Gleis 5)
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quinn @quinn@chaos.social
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@Gaelan PKP in Poland tells you on which platform the train is but not on which track: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pasażerowie_na_peronie_4_Dworzec_Centralny_2018.jpg
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Jeder neocat_floof_googly_woozy neocat_flag_agender @jeder@miau.jeder.pl
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@quinn @Gaelan i mean you can see track numbers behind the big sign, also not announcing track numbers only happens on arrival/departure displays and in voice announcements of platforms with one track, on island platforms you get the usual platform 3 track 52 (can you guess why nobody uses track numbers here)
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Gaelan Steele @Gaelan@cathode.church
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@jeder @quinn now very curious how Poland would number a station like Edinburgh Waverley
Map of Edinburgh Waverley. There’s some through platforms in either side, then a large central island with haphazardly placed bay platforms of random lengths. Also some of the through platforms have two numbers (a crossover, not shown in the image separates the differently-numbered parts of those platforms) while other through platforms have one number but “east” and “west” designations
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Jeder neocat_floof_googly_woozy neocat_flag_agender @jeder@miau.jeder.pl
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@Gaelan @quinn poznań główny before renumbering would be a strong contender for that here
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Jeder neocat_floof_googly_woozy neocat_flag_agender @jeder@miau.jeder.pl
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@Gaelan @quinn after renumbering its also quite special tbh
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Jeder neocat_floof_googly_woozy neocat_flag_agender @jeder@miau.jeder.pl
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long @Gaelan @quinn thing is, we don't really have any staton with layout as chaotic as this so this is pretty much me making shit up right now, so anyway,
since whatever seems to be the "station building" is in the "middle", my guess would be
platform 19: platform 1 (track 1) sectors a-b
platform 2: platform 1 (track 1) sectors c-d
platform 20: platform 2 (track 2) sectors a-b
platform 1: platform 2 (track 2) sectors c-d
platform 18: platform 2a (track 10)
platform 17: platform 3 (track 11)
platform 3: platform 3a track 100
platform 4: platform 3a track 101
platform 16: platform 4 track 12
platform 15: platform 4 track 13
platform 14: platform 5 track 14
platform 13: platform 5(?) track 15
platform 5: platform 5a track 102
platform 12: platform 6 track 16
platform 11: platform 6 track 17 sectors a-b
platform 7: platform 6 track 17 sectors c-d
platform 6: platform 6a track 103
platform 10: platform 7 (track 18)
platform 9w: platform 8 track 19 sectors a-b
platform 9e: platform 8 track 19 sectors c-d
platform 8w: platform 8 track 20 sectors a-b
platform 8e: platform 8 track 20 sectors c-d
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Jeder neocat_floof_googly_woozy neocat_flag_agender @jeder@miau.jeder.pl
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re: long @Gaelan @quinn otherwise for bigger bullshittery we could exchange platforms Xa into standalone because they decided they hate lettered platforms now and so then it goes
platform 2a-3
platform 3-4
platform 3a-5
platform 4-6
platform 5-7
platform 5a-8
platform 6-9
platform 6a-10
platform 7-11
platform 8-12
Yeah
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