The railway station with NO Platform 1!

I head into north London to check out the station(s) with no Platform 1s and see why this is the case!

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[markiliff]

Modane station in the French Alps has 3 platforms: A, C & 17.

[AokiNamiYou]

Lowestoft doesn't have a platform 1, as the old platform 1 is now a bus stop. It does have a 2, 3, and 4 though.

[geoffreyford]

Hull also has no Platform 1 but it still exists but tends to be used as a servicing road but not numbered.

[sobo]

Also Great Yarmouth has no Platform 1 now only 2 3 4

[mattval]

I used to be dispatcher at tot hale. Platform 2 is now Platform 4 😢
Platform 1 is now Platform 3 😢 i miss my old station.

[KasabianFan]

Since everyone in the comments is just giving other stations with no platform 1, lemme chime in with one that hasn’t been mentioned yet!:

Seaford station in East Sussex has only one platform, which is numbered 2. The old platform 1 is now occupied by a car park.

[thisis_mudchute]

i noticed this when i went to stansted airport just 2 days ago. by the way, dont get the 720 to stansted. instead, get the equally as rare 745/0 (not too rare, maybe about every 4 or 5 trains) that occasionally go on stansted express, because first class is declassified and both classes have tables (i think)

[willhouse]

Salisbury Station in Wiltshire has an abandoned platform which used to be 1 but technically has no platform 1 or 5 but has 2, 3, 4 and 6 😂

[AtoZbyLocalBus]

One thing I wish they would do at Tottenham Hale station, is to open up the doors that lead directly to the Underground Escalator from the old bridge at the station, from platform 2 & 3.

[mrewan]

Box Hill station in Melbourne does have a platform 1, but it was only in used from 1983 to 1984. There has been no track since the mid 1990s or earlier.

[Andrewjg_]

Platform 1 will be built because of Crossrail 2 that is to be given the go ahead and to add platform 1 at those stations between Tottenham Hale and Meridian Water.

[bb-]

One thing to think about with Angel road....they could have used the outside parts as two two more terminus spots . Lmao.

[robertcambridge]

Shrewsbury has no platforms 1 & 2 and in the 1970's and 80's platform 3 was not in use

[jlelliotton]

There are quite a few platform “0” in the UK 😅

[evandoesrandomstuff]

This is the line I use if I’m going towards London and I can’t understand it! It seems as if they called it platform 4 instead of platform 1 which confuses me! Great video! 👍🏻 😊

[colinn_]

I was waiting for the pint chat … had to appear in the last 20 seconds but great video as always man

[TeamasTwiffleton]

Lowestoft also doesn’t have a platform one!

[srfurley]

West Croydon has no platform 2. Stratford has no platform 7. Both did exist, platform 2 was used for the service to Wimbledon which was taken over by tramline and platform 7 was built but never used for an electric shuttle service to Fenchurch Street. Huddersfield has a missing platform, but I cannot remember the number. Platforms 9 and 10 at Finsbury Park have been removed, but since they were the highest numbers there are no missing ones.

[pacificostudios]

One of the quirks of Los Angeles Union Station is that no passenger trains ever stop on Tracks 1 and 2. Only LA Metro Line A LRT trains use the closest platform to the station concourse.

[michaeljohndennis]

I absolutely hate Platforms 13 & 14 at Manchester Piccadilly with a passion, especially if I am coming in on Metrolink from Shudehill or Market St, with tickets and information, when travelling on SailRail to Ireland via Chester, Crewe, or Lladnuo and Holyhead to Dublin with a heavy suitcase, where these trains don’t even call at Deansgate/Castlefield, which has a better Metrolink connection - clearly the current SailRail product offering needs a massive overhaul, as changing trains at Chester for Holyhead is a nightmare - they should be offering direct trains to Holyhead from Manchester Victoria or at the very least, direct trains from Platforms 1-10 at Manchester Piccadilly, which is both eternally busy and is huge compared to Manchester Victoria (my nearest mainline station) - I’ve written to TfW and Network Rail about this many times, but I’ve never got a satisfactory response