India boasts the longest railway platform in the world, 2,733 feet [833 m], at Kharagpur in West Bengal, and the longest covered platforms, at 1,000 feet each, at Sealdah in Calcutta.
Indeed, an improved understanding of the state of housing conditions is revealed through the consideration of the following contemporary forms of distressed housing: slums and squatter settlements; old buses; shipping containers; pavements; railway platforms; streets and roadside embankments; cellars; staircases; rooftops; elevator enclosures; cages; cardboard boxes; plastic sheets; aluminium and tin shelters
Not long after arriving, I was assigned as a traveling minister, which required long, lonely trips on trains and sometimes involved sleeping on railway-station platforms.
The Hindu noted that despite of close monitoring and scrutinising of the visitors by police force at every single point of entry into Peddapalli including local bus stops and railway platforms, "thousands" of people approached Kishenji's house to offer condolences to his family, shouting slogans like "Amar rahe Kishenji", "Kishenji Amar hai" and "Johar Amarajeevi Kishenji".
The Persons with Disabilities (Access to Employment, Services and Facilities) Regulations, 2009, further calls for the installation of auditory signals at red lights in the public roads for the benefit of persons who are visually impaired; the provision of kerb cuts and slopes to be made in pavements for the easy access of wheel chair users; the engraving on the surface of pedestrians crossings and the edges of railway platforms for persons who are visually impaired; the posting of appropriate symbols of disability; and the posting of warning signals and symbols at appropriate places.
Until this time, access to the two platforms was controlled from the original Eastern Counties Railway signal box still sited on the southbound platform to this day.
The described techniques for destruction of small arms and light weapons require the following equipment: (a) a 20-ton crane for unloading the items from the railway platforms; (b) a 10-ton workshop crane for sorting out the aggregates and parts subject to cutting; (c) technological equipment set for the plastic deformation of aggregates and parts; (d) hydraulic presses for the plastic deformation of parts, elements and aggregates of the small arms and the artillery pieces; (e) a mechanic’s worktable for dismantling small arms; (f) technological equipment for dismantling elements and aggregates of the artillery pieces; (g) warehouses for storing the liquid of the anti-recoil mechanisms; (h) gas-plasma equipment for cutting; and (i) manual and stationary saws for the cutting of medium and large parts, elements and aggregates.
The described techniques for destruction of small arms and light weapons require the following equipment: (a) a # ton crane for unloading the items from the railway platforms; (b) a # ton workshop crane for sorting out the aggregates and parts subject to cutting; (c) technological equipment set for the plastic deformation of aggregates and parts; (d) hydraulic presses for the plastic deformation of parts, elements and aggregates of the small arms and the artillery pieces; (e) a mechanic's worktable for dismantling small arms; (f) technological equipment for dismantling elements and aggregates of the artillery pieces; (g) warehouses for storing the liquid of the anti-recoil mechanisms; (h) gas-plasma equipment for cutting; and (i) manual and stationary saws for the cutting of medium and large parts, elements and aggregates
Southern and London Northwestern Railway stopping services generally use platforms 5 and 6 on the Slow lines but all can use either pair of platforms when needed since the four Main Line platforms were lengthened to take 12-coach trains.
Due to the immense economic potential of European-Asian transport corridors, the International Union of Railways has already started to develop international railway standards for rail freight corridors under its standardization platform.
As a result, the main line platforms (for Southern, London Northwestern Railway, and Wembley Stadium additional services) are locked out of use for most of the day and entrance is only allowed 5 minutes before the trains are due, the Southern services, which use platforms 5 and 6 (on the slow main line).
Eyewitnesses reported enthusiastically on the interchange between S-Bahn and the suburban railways, because it was possible to interchange quickly and easily on the same platform.
As a steam locomotive consumes large quantities of water, water cranes were a vital part of railway station equipment, often situated at the end of a platform, so that water could be refilled during a stop at the station.
Domino's Pizza and KFC have started supplying food on trains, collaboration with Google means that 500 railway stations will have WiFi services by next year and the launch of a new railway app will enable people to book season and platform tickets without hassle.