Bay platform

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Bay platform
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Station with one track and one bay platform

In the United Kingdom and in Australia, a bay platform is a dead-end railway platform at a railway station that has through lines.^[1] It is normal for bay platforms to be shorter than their associated through platforms. They must have a Buffer stop at one end to be a bay platform.^[2]