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Originally Posted by hairyhandedfool
incidentally why are the FCC platforms listed as A & B?
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Because FCC trains call at both high level (LMR) and low level (Moorgate line) stations, somebody has actually thought ahead and anticipated the confusion that might arise.
It seems to have been a policy on the Thameslink line (which is still called that despite the fact that FCC now has the franchise)
that when their through-line commuter platforms are located near to a mainline terminus with the same name they identify them with letters rather than numbers - It kind of hints that they're 'less important' and will thus be harder to find.
To ram the point home, when FCC drivers are arriving at lo level they 're actually supposed to announce it as 'St Pancras International Low Level', just to make the point (not that anybody ever listens to the PA
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King's Cross Thameslink was/is similarly endowed with A & B platforms.