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A railway platform is an area in a train station alongside a railway track providing convenient access to trains. Almost all stations have some form of platform, with larger stations having multiple platforms.
Grand Central Terminal in Midtown Manhattan hosts 44 platforms, more than any other rail station in the world.[1] The world's longest station platform is at Hubballi Junction in India at 1,507 metres (4,944 ft).[2] The Appalachian Trail station or Benson station in the United States, at the other extreme, has a platform which is only long enough for a single bench.[3]
Among some American train conductors, the word "platform" has entered usage as a verb meaning "to berth at a station", as in the announcement: "The last two cars of this train will not platform at East Rockaway".[4]
- ^ "10 things we bet you didn't know about Grand Central". Signum International AG.
Grand Central Terminal is spread over 49 acres, has 44 platforms and 67 tracks on two levels. It is the world's largest train station by number of platforms and area occupied.
- ^ Gorakhpur gets world's largest railway platform The Times of India
- ^ "MNR Stations APPALACHIAN TRAIL". as0.mta.info. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
- ^ NY Times 18 May 1986