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Originally Posted by jeremy_haak
The renders seem inconsistent in this regard, but it looks like there will only be one track between the island platforms and possibly only one track between the north island platform and north platform (depending on the render). It almost seems like a Spanish solution design with the north island platform presumably being used for arriving passengers and departing passengers using the north platform and south island platform. I'm not sure I've ever heard of the Spanish solution being used for intercity trains, though. Is this a common thing?
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Might just be as simple as they needed wider platforms than were the norm in the 1960s and needed to cannibalize a track.
What surprised me is how short the new platforms are. Via often runs longer trains than that (particularly on long weekends)