User talk:LondonWaterloo

I think you have been taken in by Network Rail's public relations spin on this issue. It seems to me and most people who have to use Waterloo station on a regular basis that it is a scandal that NR has done nothing to bring the four unused platforms at Waterloo into use: a relatively cheap project that would improve station capacity by 20 per cent. Waterloo is one of the busiest UK stations and because of the lack of platforms commuters often have to wait in the station concourse for ages before a platform is allocated to a train. That is a fact not an opinon. Passengers are often told which platform to go to just two or three minutes before the train leaves the station, which is of course a completely chaotic way to run a railway. By contrast the website of the Swiss Railways is able to tell you which platform to use at Zurich or Geneva stations up to YEAR before a train leaves. Two or three weekends of engineering work would be all it would take to add a dozen sets of points further down the lines. That work would also cost far less than the 20 million pounds that was recently spent installing completely unnecessary ticket barriers at Waterloo: another indignity which rail users in more civilised countries don't have to put up with.

Petershipton (talk) 22:05, 14 August 2009 (UTC)