In plain English
The platform is the place in a station where people wait to board. If there is a platform change, the service is now due to leave from a different platform from the one given earlier.
In context
Here, "platform change" reports that the same departure will leave from a different station platform than the one previously announced or scheduled.
- Situation
- Using rail, bus, metro, ride, and local-transit tickets and service updates
- What it communicates
- reports an updated platform for the same departure.
Meaning limits
By itself, the term does not show that the departure time or the service itself has changed.
Examples
“There has been a platform change for the 08:15 to Bristol; it will now leave from platform 6 instead of platform 4.”
“After a platform change from 5 to 2, the airport train was still listed for the same departure time.”