Meaning of island platform | Babel Free

Definitions

A railway platform which has tracks on both sides.

Examples

“From Blackwater there is a more or less level run through gently rolling farmlands and downs to Merstone, with its island platform and passing loop.”

“In the new layout, it is proposed to provide three island platforms with six platform faces varying from 1,075 to 1,290 ft. in length and including bays.”

“This time I disembark at Dumbarton Central, a station with two island platforms blessed with yellow brick buildings and iron canopies dating from 1896, and listed Grade A.”

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