tbtc
Veteran Member
There’s a popular thread in the Railway side of the Forum asking about remembering of platforms at train stations, which is a complicated subject (often expensive to amend, but the piecemeal development of stations means there are a few where a platform has to be numbered out of sequence due to changes):
Also, there are some big railway stations where any numbering is going to confuse some people (Edinburgh Waverley seems too complicated for some otherwise intelligent people)
But are there any bus stations/ stances that have (or used to have) perplexing numbering? Presumably not many, since it’d be easy to amend numbers overnight (no multi million pound signaling systems to worry about!)
Or badly signposted layouts, where it was obvious that the three rows of stances were A/B/C but there was nothing to tell unwary passengers that “D” represented the bus stops on the street outside the bus station?
Or town centres where the council have tried to bring some order to a disperse set of bus stops, but only ended up causing more confusion (e.g. HS1-HS9 should denote High Street stops but for some reason that includes a stop round the corner on a different road)?
Happy to take historic examples of (potentially) confusing numbering/lettering, since bus stations aren’t as common as they once were
Why aren't the platforms at UK railway stations renumbered?
Hopefully a self-explanatory title, but sitting on Shrewsbury railway station yesterday, I started wondering why the platforms were numbered 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. I mean, clearly at some point there were 8 platforms (though not sure if the prison platform would've been numbered!), but there's now...
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Also, there are some big railway stations where any numbering is going to confuse some people (Edinburgh Waverley seems too complicated for some otherwise intelligent people)
But are there any bus stations/ stances that have (or used to have) perplexing numbering? Presumably not many, since it’d be easy to amend numbers overnight (no multi million pound signaling systems to worry about!)
Or badly signposted layouts, where it was obvious that the three rows of stances were A/B/C but there was nothing to tell unwary passengers that “D” represented the bus stops on the street outside the bus station?
Or town centres where the council have tried to bring some order to a disperse set of bus stops, but only ended up causing more confusion (e.g. HS1-HS9 should denote High Street stops but for some reason that includes a stop round the corner on a different road)?
Happy to take historic examples of (potentially) confusing numbering/lettering, since bus stations aren’t as common as they once were