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Posted on 29/08/14 08:38:24 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Challenge 520: Platform Zero
I took a train from King's Cross Station, in London, this week. Now King's Cross is well known to Harry Potter fans as being the location of Platform 9¾, and the station's managers have even gone so far as to build a platform sign together with a trolley embedded in the wall. What interested me, though, is that the platforms are numbered from 1 upwards, from right to left. When an additional platform was added to the right of Platform 1, they had no logical choice but to call it Platform 0. Here's a shot of the platform with a somewhat ghostly white train waiting to depart - but what sort of spooky transportation might we imagine on such an unlikely platform? High res is here.  |
Posted on 29/08/14 10:19:28 AM |
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Nick Curtain
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Re: Challenge 520: Platform Zero
Yes, this happened as part of the recent refurbishment and I was also puzzled why they used zero for the new platform. I suppose they would have had to renumber the other 11 platforms, so makes sense. Only electrics can use this one, as the line sits right under the station offices. |
Posted on 29/08/14 4:23:30 PM |
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josephine harvatt
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Re: Challenge 520: Platform Zero
Schpooky! Welcome back Steve  _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 29/08/14 7:13:12 PM |
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Ant Snell
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Posted on 30/08/14 7:43:57 PM |
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brewell
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Posted on 30/08/14 9:58:24 PM |
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sciteach
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Posted on 31/08/14 4:36:19 PM |
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Ben Mills
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Posted on 31/08/14 8:03:47 PM |
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ahmedalij
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Posted on 01/09/14 00:51:14 AM |
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james
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Posted on 01/09/14 10:43:25 AM |
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tooquilos
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http://vimeo.com/104902773 James thats great...have you been watching "Chuggington/"  _________________ Wicked Witch of the West:I'll get you, my pretty! And your little dog, too! |
Posted on 01/09/14 5:02:47 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5676 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 520: Platform Zero
With apologies to Robert Krasker for playing fast and loose with some of the most wonderfully atmospheric black and white photography I have ever seen. 
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Posted on 01/09/14 6:26:55 PM |
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ahmedalij
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Posted on 01/09/14 9:02:35 PM |
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srawland
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Posted on 01/09/14 9:34:16 PM |
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Emy
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_________________ Why not! |
Posted on 01/09/14 11:31:19 PM |
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srawland
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Posted on 02/09/14 10:02:47 AM |
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GKB
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Posted on 02/09/14 11:38:12 AM |
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josephine harvatt
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Love the understatement Srawland! In my effort the ghost of Dr Beeching reaches his final destination - for you young uns and non Brits who don't know about the Beeching cuts see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_cuts for further info  _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 02/09/14 12:26:04 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5676 Reply |
Re: Challenge 520: Platform Zero
When I did my first image I thought it was a nice touch to leave the modern fluorescent lighting as a contrast to the sewer. Coming back to it fresh today I am not so sure. So here's a non fluoro version as well. The agonies of indecision .........   |
Posted on 02/09/14 12:38:58 PM |
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GKB
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I can never make up my mind whether I'm indecisive or not! _________________  |
Posted on 02/09/14 1:22:59 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5676 Reply |
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Very droll ... I must remember that .......  |
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