[estaseuropano]

For context: medium sized European city will have anything from 12-30 platforms - and often several main train stations and several dozen local ones in the city. E.g. Brussels, Paris or Berlin have several huge stations.

[matkoniecz]

12-30 is a bit overkill.

Kraków, Poland with 780k inhabitants has "only" 10

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/50.06881/19.94768&laye...

[the8472]

A terminus needs at least double the amount of platforms to sustain the throughput of a regular station.