Platforms
The station has 17 platforms, numbered 1 to 17. The original platform number 1 (now numbered 0) is disused, and platform 2 has been split into two (1 and 2). Platforms 1-6, the northern group, lie a west-southwesterly direction and platforms 7-17, the southern group, are oriented in a southwesterly direction. Sidings leading into railway sheds at the west of the station separate the two groups.
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