PLATFORM 1, EASTBOUND MAINLINE

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Overview

The escalator well and waiting area are covered by a plastic roof. The waiting area, at the top of the escalator contains seating, turn left from the top of the escalator, through pull doors onto the platform, you're about in the middle of three-car trains.

There's tactile paving along the edge of this platform.

Note that, as a result of the building work at this station, much of the platform furniture is behind hoardings which extend to either side of the entrance/exit.

To Reach

The escalators to platform 1, eastbound, are beyond the mainline ticket sales window (go round the partiition). Leave the booking hall via the left-hand escalator.

At the top of the escalator, you're in a square waiting area with:

South Side

  down escalator
up escalator
wall juts out
low wall
paper rack

West Side

  double pull door onto platform
double pull door onto platform
wall continues
pillar, near northwest corner

North Side

  low wall
bench

East Side

  Bench
down escalator, going south

In the middle of this space is a raised square floor with a pillar at each corner and a bench seat between each pair of pillars.

As we go west through the doors, there's a slope up onto the open platform, trains travel south. The platform curves left towards the east.

Platform 1, From the North

All features are on the left-hand (east) side, unless stated otherwise.

  slope off end
3 posts
Billboards
Stanchion
plastic wall of waiting area
2 double doors towards escalators
gap towards gate, not for public access
shelter, with two entrances
post with CCTV in middle of platform, between the two entrances to the shelter
wall with posts
bench in middle of platform
3 car stop sign, just beyond bench
post in middle, with departure screens
post in middle, with CCTV camera
stanchion
6 posts
slight slope up
stanchion
sand bin
6 car stop
slope off end, with departure screen and signal post in middle

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