I’m in a little bit of a quandary regarding the construction of the platforms at the station — should the planks run parallel to, or perpendicular to the tracks?

These two views of this station show all kinds of interesting things. Notice the grade crossing in the picture at left – very similar to mine, and notice that it’s not there in the, apparently, earlier photograph at the right. Interesting. The pictures also show two different platform types in the same complex. That’s not helping me any!