>>1634279I grew up with platform numbering and I never saw a problem with it. Our station had 2 island platforms with 4 through tracks. Platform 1 with tracks 101 and 103 was for downline trains and platform 2 with tracks 102 and 104 was for upline trains. The announcements and information panels firstly guided you to the correct platform and then told you the track.
So a train announcement went like this: The regional train 666 from Empty Fields continuing to Nowhere-upon-Nothing will arrive on platform 2, track 104.
You locate the platform, then the track. It had the advantage that if there were trackworks, you still kept the platform but just switched the track so that for example platform 2 was always the right choice for all upline trains.
Now I live with the German system with track numbering only. It's not better but it's not worse. The tracks are marked visibly, the announcements are a bit shorter (omitting the platform part) and you can still find your train. Only during trackworks you have to keep in mind that track 3 now parallels track 6 on the same platform, so if your train switches tracks, don't panic...
