Stations with terminating services but no terminating platforms

[richw]

I don't ever recall noticing a bay platform at Exeter st David's. London services all terminate on throughs as do Barnstaple and exmouth services.

 

[ATW Alex 101]

Looking at google maps I can make out something looking like a bay platform but I can't be too sure

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=exter+st+davids+station&aq=f&ie=UTF-8&hl=en

 

[ushawk]

Lewes, Worthing, Barnham, Chichester, Havant, Fratton, Eastleigh, Horsham, Ashford International, East and South Croydon, East Grinstead, Sutton, Norwood Junction, Winchester, Haslemere, Chessington South, Tunbridge Wells, Selhurst, Purley, Reigate, Gatwick Airport, Alton

I could give loads more, but theres a large handful for the South - probably a good few hundred answers.

 

[ATW Alex 101]

Thanks for compiling quite a large list! It must be a thing in the south, the majority of stations like so are in the south!

 

[richw]

Looking at google maps I can make out something looking like a bay platform but I can't be too sure

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=exter+st+davids+station&aq=f&ie=UTF-8&hl=en

I've just looked myself and it definitely has a bay, but it doesn't look like the platform is more than a carriage length or connected to the station on the east side of the station near to the level crossing.

 

[cm39275]

Alyesbury is also anouther station that has terminating service which all 3 platforms are through roads, Warwick Parkway should be counted for the friday only late night terminater from marylebone if im not mistaken and also Gerrads cross is anouther one on chiltern territory.

 

[gnolife]

I've just thought of Ardrossan Town as well (the 17:35 service from GLC (high level)) terminates there.

 

[cm39275]

Inverurie quite a few Edingburgh to Aberdeen services extend to there

 

[ATW Alex 101]

Am I right in saying that Carmarthen has no bay platforms?

 

[MidnightFlyer]

172212 - Walsall does have a bay, p3 IIRC.
ATWalex101 - Correct it doesn't, just a buffer stop beyond the roadbridge after the platforms.

 

[Statto]

All services from Kirkby and Ormskirk terminate at Liverpool central before reversing. Only wirral line trains continue through

Also Hunts Cross Trains continue through Liverpool Central Station.

 

[172212]

172212 - Walsall does have a bay, p3 IIRC.
ATWalex101 - Correct it doesn't, just a buffer stop beyond the roadbridge after the platforms.

I always thought platform 3 at Walsall was a through platform

 

[Lrd]

Southampton Central, Southampton Airport ( fairly sure theres a XC terminator), Eastleigh, Totton, Brockenhurst, Winchester, Haslemere(?), Petersfield(?), Romsey, Barnham, Fareham, Poole, Warminster(?), Bristol TM(?), Cardiff Queen Street, Ryde Esplanade(?), Leamington Spa, Brum Snow Hill, Sheffield(?), Sutton.

 

[gnolife]

Southampton Central, Southampton Airport ( fairly sure theres a XC terminator), Eastleigh, Totton, Brockenhurst, Winchester, Haslemere(?), Petersfield(?), Romsey, Barnham, Fareham, Poole, Warminster(?), Bristol TM(?), Cardiff Queen Street, Ryde Esplanade(?), Leamington Spa, Brum Snow Hill, Sheffield(?), Sutton.

Bristol has Platform 2, Sheffield has 2C, Leamington Spa has Platform 1 and 4 as bays

 

[Lrd]

Bristol has Platform 2, Sheffield has 2C, Leamington Spa has Platform 1 and 4 as bays

Thanks, only been to Sheffield once and that was stuck on platform 8 for 10 mins, Bristol, I knew there had to be one somewhere, just couldn't think where. Leamington surprised me though, are they North facing at a guess?

 

[34D]

Everything on the Watford DC lines (i.e. the Overground through Queen's Park (London)) runs Euston-Watford as far as I know, not one service operates between any other two stations.

I swear one day looking at NRE live departures late at night one day ages ago, there were a few departures to Queens park, maybe there were works on the line. Ill take your word for it though and take responsibility for my mistake

Well I've certainly been on a silverlink class 313 that turned at Queens Park (in the down platform) and went back south (to Primrose Hill in this case).

Does the station have to have a daily terminating move to qualify, or just the facility to terminate trains there as and when required?

Surbiton, Epsom, Basingstoke, Farnham, Southampton Central, Kensington Olympia*, Kentish Town**

* Does the Kensington Olympia - Wandsworth Road Southern service still run?
** Do Southeastern/FCC still have those joint services that terminate at Kentish Town?

Kenny O has a bay for the district line, but yes I believe said train to Wandsworth Road still runs (for now) though I don't immediately recall where it starts.

Kentish Town is valid and has already been mentioned.

Yes Worksop doesn't have any bay platform. Strange because Mansfield Woodhouse does, or was the Sheffield-Retford line there before the Robin Hood line?

I'm not sure about which was first in victorian times (or what the historic service pattern was) but don't forget that the Mansfield line only reopened in the 1990s, and as already been said, first Nottingham to Newstead, then NOT to Mansfield, then NOT to Worksop.

Hexham, Sunderland, Knaresborough, Harrogate, Knottingley, Hosforth.

Harrogate does have bay platform 2, but it isn't used for any passenger services (it is used for ECS though, and if you go there today (and any saturday) therell be something stabled in it). Does that count for these purposes?

Has Pontefract Monkhill been mentioned? Believe there are (or certainly used to be) trains that turn there.

Micklefield sees occasional use to turn trains (both via its own crossover and ecs to gasgoigne wood).

Bowes Park also sees occasional uae (disruptions etc) when trains use the neck north of the station to reverse (I've done this move myself).

 

[142094]

TBH I've never noticed the bay at Harrogate, I'm guessing it is the one at the eastern end (is it actually accessible from the platforms?).

Someone mentioned Sheffield - there is at least 4 bays, two on each side, with the Leeds/Doncaster/Scunthorpe ones seeing high use.

 

[DarloRich]

Stevenage, Broxbourne, Milton Keynes Central, Bletchley, Birmingham Snow Hill are a few :P

Point of order - MKC has a terminus platform being 2A

Pendantic point of order 2 - Blethcley has a terminating platform of sorts being the Royal mail Dock. It isn't used by passenger trains mind!

Add Middlesbrough
Bishop Auckland

 

[Gwenllian2001]

Am I right in saying that Carmarthen has no bay platforms?

Since the closure of the line to Aberystwyth it has become a dead end so there are no though platforms.

 

[asylumxl]

I apologise if anyone has mentioned them. Find it a bit odd Kentish Town and St Albans City have been mentioned and not these

Luton and Bedford both have terminating services, although the electrification doesn't continue far past Bedford's platforms!

 

[b0b]

I can easily think of three in the Strathclyde area - there must be more.

Anderston
Carstairs
Partick

Motherwell and Newton
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Bedford both have terminating services, although the electrification doesn't continue far past Bedford's platforms!

Bedford has (or had) a bay platform for the bletchley service

 

[ATW Alex 101]

Does the station have to have a daily terminating move to qualify

Yes, as long as 1 service is scheduled to terminate and all platforms are through you are fine

or just the facility to terminate trains there as and when required?

No we're going to have to count stations like that out, if we were to allow them there would be shedloads more stations to add to the already large list.

 

[SprinterMan]

Ingatestone

The one train that starts there I think is specifically for school children and used to be an ECS move.

Adam

 

[asylumxl]

Motherwell and Newton
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Bedford has (or had) a bay platform for the bletchley service

Yes it does.

I just felt since people were mentioning stations where there are regular terminating services which do not use the bays that Bedford would also be an option.

 

[ATW Alex 101]

NO, iv'e mentioned for the umpteenth time ALL PLATFORMS ON THE STATION HAVE TO BE THROUGH PLATFORMS. Sorry for being blunt , rant over

300'TH POST

 

[The Planner]

I always thought platform 3 at Walsall was a through platform

Nope, it will be after re-signalling but not yet. Leamington are North facing bays. Anyone said Birmingham International ? unless I have missed it.

 

[ATW Alex 101]

Yep birmingham int has been mentioned about 2 times, sorry for the pedantry

 

[Southern]

Folkestone Central always seems to have had at least one terminating service, running Mon-Fri Only. In the current timetable, it's the 1803 from Charing Cross.

 

[cookiescrumble]

Surbiton, Epsom, Basingstoke, Farnham, Southampton Central, Kensington Olympia*, Kentish Town**

* Does the Kensington Olympia - Wandsworth Road Southern service still run?
** Do Southeastern/FCC still have those joint services that terminate at Kentish Town?

Southampton Central has platform 5 which is a bay platform (although rarely used), as does Basingstoke which is the platform for the FGW service to Reading.

I can think of Winchester, Poole, Havant, Fareham and Hilsea which I don't think have been mentioned yet.

 

[cm39275]

has anyone mentioned Sutton in london and i also believe redhill might also be a contender if im not mistaken.