12-10-2024, 02:23 PM
(12-10-2024, 01:12 AM)ijmorlan Wrote:(12-09-2024, 12:32 PM)taylortbb Wrote: It's sadly not the straightforward. Most of our passenger platforms are on tracks that serve freight trains. The freight trains are allowed to be wider, so a platform that provided level boarding of a Via train could have freight trains collide with it. I believe that's part of why Go uses the low platforms, because they're compatible with freight loading gauges.
This could be addressed with gauntlet track, and is irrelevant for the biggest stations, which have many tracks most of which never see freight traffic.
Bramalea, for example, has freight pass on a completely separate track. Its platforms have been built with the ability to be adjusted higher at a later date.