Platforms and Tracks
Not the platforms, but the tracks are numbered. Tracks without platform access, used for through traffic, also have a number. This number is not indicated, but it shows indirectly by the fact that in the numbering of the accessible tracks a number is skipped. Track numbers are usually increasing in the direction away from the center of the city and hence away from the main entrance(s) of the station.
A track along a long platform may have an "a" and a "b"-side, and sometimes three sections "a", "b" and "c".
At many stations, above platforms and/or at their access points, there are dynamic displays (often split-flap displays, but increasingly electronic displays) of the destination and departure time of the next train, see Centraal bediende treinaanwijzer (in Dutch)http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centraal_bediende_treinaanwijzer.
Read more about this topic: Railway Stations In The Netherlands
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