i genuinely don't understand what were they thinking in the mid-90's when they approved this
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@pony No clue in this case, but often the idea at stations like this is that they serve as "waiting"/"train passing" places. I.e., you can park a passenger train there for a while, while a cargo train would overtake it. Or more often you can "park" there a slow regional train while a fast Intercity would speed by. No clue about this case, but sometimes you'd get a station in a middle of nowhere which serves as a spikes-hub for Intercity trains to dump/load passengers which are further handled by a a star-shaped network of regional trains which would always wait for the said Intercity train, even if it would be delayed. In such situations they designed stations at overcapacity. There are more stations like this in CZ/SK space.
@FailForward there can be stations without any platforms that only serve as junctions for passing, but this is not a case, this a mainline with a strong commuter traffic too, not designing proper platforms there was half criminal (and it *hurts* the capacity as with the right main track in the direction of the picture, you can't have a train on any track left to it to the train station)
