In Lausanne, you can find a platform with absolutely no rail track.

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1. What is the history behind this one?

2. The track is between tracks 1 and 3 😉

3. The old Platform 9.

   IIRC it is supposed to be demolished with the station’s renovation.

4. Frenchs

5. Platform 9¾

6. That’s where the Swiss kids take their train to Hogwarts

7. It’s the test station for CH’s new hover trains

8. Perfectly sums up the future state of rail transportation in the French speaking region of Switzerland

9. Cool maybe conection to japan
   Or maybe just my snowpiercer breaking everthing ^^

10. Trains from Olten arrive here

11. It’s waiting for the hogwarts train

12. Yes, I begin to study in Lausanne since 2019 and nothing has change since then

13. lol

14. Well, pick mah peas!

15. Many stations have that, I think it often is due to some route have been planned but not realised by the time that the station was openend.
    Baden for instance has a 6th platform that if anything is used to deposit goods trains from time to time.

16. State of the romande rail network (symbolbild)

17. This is a post for /r/mildlyinteresting

18. That’s why it’s always late.

19. That’s for the ICE from Germany.

20. Where we are going we don’t need rails

21. I think the Romanians stole it

22. Romandie is behind in rail infrastructure. Even tracks are lacking. 😄