{"id":197804,"date":"2010-01-19T06:21:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T11:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com\/showthread.php?t=1048797"},"modified":"2010-01-19T06:21:54","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T11:21:54","slug":"what-is-the-point-of-low-height-platforms-at-train-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/197804","title":{"rendered":"What is the point of low height platforms at train stations&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>What is the point of low height platforms at train stations&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>Something which I can never understand is why are the built like that. Here in the UK all the stations have high level platforms and that includes small rural stations, and the gap isn&#8217;t anywhere near as big as those in other countries. When ever I have taken the train in France, US, Spain or Russia in a lot of places you have to climb up into the train, even at some larger stations.<\/p>\n<p>UK normal platform height&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3213\/2540801055_ca8570b7ab.jpg?v=0\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/208\/494592642_9a7cfbe873.jpg?v=0\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raycam.co.uk\/cl156-at-glasgow-cent.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the point of low height platforms at train stations&#8230;? Something which I can never understand is why are the built like that. Here in the UK all the stations have high level platforms and that includes small rural stations, and the gap isn&#8217;t anywhere near as big as those in other countries. When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1872,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1872"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}