It is probably endemic amongst train managers – conductors as they used to be. They may be even instructed to say it by their own bosses – a train manager manager, no doubt. But surely First Great Western can find something better to replace their wicked new verb (that’s wicked in the old sense of “bad”) “to be platformed.”
Passengers travelling between Devon and London Paddington this week were advised to more up from coach A “in order to alight at Pewsey as that coach won’t be platformed here.”