PLATFORMS 9 - 10

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To Reach the Platform

From the subway, go up 12 then 12 steps, going northwest into the waiting area. Platform 9 is to your left, 10 to your right.

General Information

Platform 10, being the terminus for the trains towards Gatwick Airport, is shorter than platform 9. There's a wooden fence along the side of platform 9 where it extends beyond each end of platform 10.

Features on Platform 9, from the Northwest

  slope off end
flower bed, about ten metres from end
flower bed
gap to fence
flower bed
gap to fence
building starts
gap to platform 10 with flower beds, don't go here
pillar
post, on platform
pillar
gap through to platform 10
building resumes, waiting room
blank wall with rail
billboards
recess to automatic doors
blank wall
recess to automatic doors
blank wall
gap through to platform 10
lift with door facing northwest in middle of island, button on left
blank wall
pillar, with departures screen
trolley park
seat
posts
stanchion
seat
2 stanchions
seat
flower bed
wooden fence resumes beyond end of platform 10
open platform 9, with posts etc. to slope off end

Features on Platform 10 from the Northwest

  slope off end

Open platform, beside a concrete wall next to the tunnel entrance to the car park. This end of platform 10 is some distance from platform 9.

From the end of the concrete wall

  metal railings
flower bed
pillar
gap through to platform 9
building starts ticket vending machine on northwest wall
blank wall with rail
billboards
recess to automatic doors
blank wall
gap through to platform 9
lift with door facing northwest in middle of island, button on left
blank wall
pillar, with departures screen
trolley park
seat
posts
stanchion
seat
2 stanchions
seat
flower bed
slope off end

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