Sentence examples for end of a platform from inspiring English sources

Firefighter Kennelly had to edge out to the end of a platform and coax the worker to jump into his arms.

Shortly before 3 30 a.m., the worker, Louis Moore, 58, a signal maintainer from the Hollis neighborhood, was moving through a gate at the end of a platform at 46th Street and Broadway in Astoria.

The rats were placed in a harness on a treadmill which gave them the impression of having a working spinal column and they were encouraged to walk towards the end of a platform where a chocolate reward was waiting.

His porter's uniform, a grimy red shirt far too large for his skinny frame, serves as a pyjama too, for he sleeps at the end of a platform.When the public-address system announces that the railway police need a porter for an accident he hurries over.

I stand at the end of a station platform at the Hauptbahnhof and listen to Susan Philipsz's Study for Strings, the music ebbing and flowing amid the railway noise, and look across to platform 13, where the Jews once departed.

Using information provided, they had to select the minimum number of hand brakes needed to secure a 10-car train parked on a grade for more than 30 minutes (five), and the number of R28 subway cars in a train consisting of five two-car units that would extend beyond the end of a 450-foot platworm (two).

One recent afternoon, Ms. Oxenhorn stood at the end of a subway platform on West 103rd Street, facing the wall, wailing away on her blues harmonica as if the spirit of an old man from Mississippi had jumped into her skin.

An enclosed footbridge provides access to the platforms, approximately a third of the way along platforms 2 and 3 (from west to east), and at the west end of platform 4. Platforms 2 and 3 are opposite each other, while platform 4 is offset from platform 3, starting at the footbridge and extending further to the east.

At the southern end of platform 7, the platform edge curves away to the east but the line now turns westward to join the main line.

At the north end of platform 3, a disused bay platform can be seen.

Gove is the sort of nerdish, know-it-all clever dick one once might have expected to see loitering at the end of a rainy railway platform, spotting trains.