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The platform canopies have changed as you said John and so have the designs of the platforms from what I have noticed. As for the extra platform idea. You may be right as I have looked closely at them both now and ther appears to be an extra platform on the second photo.
I chose those two pictures for comparison as I took the 2006 one from pltfrom 13, and from what I remember, when I went to Piccadilly in the 1998 one I got there by a service vound for Liverpool Lime Street (the original Manchester Airport-Liverpool 'stopper' which was a 156) so that photo must have been taken from the same Northbound platform. It looks like there has been an added platform but I don't know where.
Other changes I noticed were the signs (white in 1998, but network rail colours in 2006). The introduction of ATP devises on the track at platform 9 in second photo. And probrably the most obvious being the change in VWC traction.
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