Used to be that this was standard layout at major termini. One of the excitements of arriving at Paddington in the 1960s was London taxis coming down the ramp in parallel with the arriving main line train. 12 hours later and the same roadways were used by lorries loaded with newspapers, for direct transfer to the departing Newspaper Trains. It seems to have been the style to replace such roads with another pair of tracks and platforms. Was Fenchurch Street the only London terminus without this?
Edinburgh Waverley in the 1970s had filled in the onetime substantial number of east end bays, now redundant as hardly any local services went that way at the time, with a car park which you got a space in with a sleeper reservation, or an "Executive" ticket to London. Accessed by car rather hesitatingly along the main south side through platform. All seems further changed now, and the bays reinstated, even for the likes of Lumo 5-cars to London.
Edinburgh Waverley in the 1970s had filled in the onetime substantial number of east end bays, now redundant as hardly any local services went that way at the time, with a car park which you got a space in with a sleeper reservation, or an "Executive" ticket to London. Accessed by car rather hesitatingly along the main south side through platform. All seems further changed now, and the bays reinstated, even for the likes of Lumo 5-cars to London.