Platform 0

Platforms 0 and 1 at Edinburgh Haymarket

Platform 0 is a platform number at various railway stations around the world. It is usually a result of constructing a new platform next to the existing platform 1. To avoid having to renumber and replace signage (or excessive replacement of signalling equipment ^[1] ) for all other platforms, as well as confusing passengers who are familiar with the existing platform layout, the new platform is simply named "Platform 0" in an example of zero-based numbering.

Examples

United Kingdom

The following stations in the United Kingdom have a Platform 0; this is not necessarily an exhaustive list: ^[2]

• Bradford Forster Square ^[3]
• Cardiff Central ^[4]
• Doncaster ^[5]
• Edinburgh Haymarket ^[4]
• Gravesend ^[6]
• Leeds ^{[7] [8]}
• King's Cross ^[4]
• Rainham ^[9]
• Redhill ^[10]
• Stockport ^[11]

Australia

• Lidcombe ^{[12] [13]}

Japan

• Ayase
• Haruda
• Hashioka
• Kyōto ^[14]

Switzerland

• Aarau ^[15]

Indonesia

• Tanah Abang (from 2024)

Denmark

• Esbjerg ^[16]

References

1. Bollen, Jennifer (2021-09-15). "Why do we have platform zeros? Trackside Tara explains". Network Rail. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
2. But it is a complete list of the stations visited by Geoff Marshall and Matt Parker in their videos "Visiting All Platform Zeros (Part 1)", "Visiting All Platform Zeros (Part 2)", and "Visiting every Platform Zero in the UK in one day!" published in January 2020
3. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74nmze18jvo#:~:text=A%20new%20%C2%A335m%20platform%20at%20Bradford%27s%20Forster%20Square,Sundays%2C%20an%20increase%20from%20the%20current%20two%20services.
4. Jefferson, Ed (August 3, 2016). "From Platform 0 to Platform 9¾: The strange world of British Rail mathematics". CityMetric. Retrieved 2020-02-09.
5. "New platform 0 to open at Doncaster railway station on Monday". www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk. 14 December 2016. Retrieved 2020-02-09.
6. "National Rail Enquiries - Station facilities for Gravesend". www.nationalrail.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-02-09.
7. "Leeds station improvements". Network Rail . Retrieved 2020-02-10.
8. Johnson, Kristian (2018-11-16). "Leeds train station to gain new platform on site of car park". leedslive. Retrieved 2020-02-10.
9. "Rochester rail bridge installation maintains momentum on £145m East Kent works". thespencergroup.co.uk. 19 December 2014. Retrieved 2020-02-09.
10. Steed, Les (2018-01-02). "Redhill Platform 0 finally open - here's what passengers thought". getsurrey. Retrieved 2020-02-09.
11. Scapens, Alex (2017-01-18). "Platform zero at Stockport station reopened after its mysterious closure". men. Retrieved 2020-02-09.
12. Olympic Sprint platform enters service Railway Digest June 1999 page 10
13. Lidcombe Railway Station Group Office of Environment & Heritage
14. "JR West - Kyoto Station map" (PDF). JR West . 22 January 2020. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
15. "In Aarau gibt es das einzige Gleis null der Schweiz". Aargauer Zeitung (in Swiss High German). 2009-07-01. Retrieved 2020-02-10.
16. "Esbjerg station departures". MitTog. Retrieved 2023-10-27.

See also

• Platform 9¾