Stations with wooden platforms

[Charlie2555]

Are there any stations in the UK (not heritage) which still have wooden platforms? I would be interested to see some of them, if there are any...
Thanks

 

[michael769]

Livingston South

 

[wintonian]

Yes though I can't remember which ones off the top of my head, I think Southease mat be half wooden?

Edit: Lymington Pier and Ryde Pier Head are of course 2 of them as is part of Ryde Esplanade!

 

[Eagle]

I believe some on the inner SWML are (around Weybridge and Surbiton).

 

[wintonian]

I believe some on the inner SWML are (around Weybridge and Surbiton).

Not Surbiton, but it was places like Weybridge, Esher, West Byfleet etc. I was thinking off (though can't remember if Weybridge is one)

 

[ANorthernGuard]

Not Surbiton, but it was places like Weybridge, Esher, West Byfleet etc. I was thinking off (though can't remember if Weybridge is one)

Flowery field, godley, woodsmoor

 

[dzug2]

Winnersh Triangle - unless it's changed recently

 

[ushawk]

Fairly sure Burnley Manchester Road is, think some stations along that route are the same.

 

[NSEFAN]

Berrylands.

 

[wintonian]

Berrylands.

yup that was one I was trying to think off.

 

[Trog]

Long Buckby was not sure if it still is.

Also Cheddington Up Slow, Watford North and Watford Junction Platform 11

 

[Cherry_Picker]

Princes Risborough's down platform appears to be a huge raft of wood mounted on concrete struts. It's coated with a non slip surface so you cant see it, but it certainly sounds like wood when you walk on it.

 

[Ploughman]

Quite a lot of West Yorks PTE stations are of Wood construction, built in the 1980s.

A number of them have suffered from rotting timber in the platform surface and have been redecked in a Fibreglass type of textured board.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Steeton_Silsden_station_p1.jpg

From my former occupation on track renewals, we used to hate digging through these platforms as the legs are supported solely on a paving slab bedded on the ballast. When you dig alongside the ballast falls away and the platform could sag alarmingly.

 

[jamieintercity]

Golf street and balmossie on the dundee to aberdeen line

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Fairly sure Burnley Manchester Road is, think some stations along that route are the same.

Only Burnley Manchester Rd between Colne / Burnley and Preston. Not sure about out towards Blackpool.

Pretty much any station built or rebuilt in the 1980s will be too (BYM and LOH were also built then), a lot have been mentioned already.

 

[telstarbox]

Brighton platform 8 IIRC - it's like a pier.

 

[Juniper Driver]

Winnersh Triangle - unless it's changed recently

No,it's still the same.

Berrylands,renamed Smellylands.(already posted I see,can't think of any others.)

 

[Karl]

Only Burnley Manchester Rd and Lostock Hall between Colne / Burnley and Preston. Not sure about out towards Blackpool.

Pretty much any station built or rebuilt in the 1980s will be too (BYM and LOH were also built then), a lot have been mentioned already.

Lostock Hall is not wooden at all. It's concrete supported by those concrete pillars. It's one of my local stations.

 

[EM2]

Battersea Park certainly was the last time I was there.

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Lostock Hall is not wooden at all. It's concrete supported by those concrete pillars. It's one of my local stations.

So it is, I passed there today!

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[lincolnshire]

Crowle Staion on the Up side is all wood,also New Holland Staion ( now only one platform). Burley Park built in the 80,s is all wood both sides.
If me memory serves me right also Broomfleet too as it was rebuilt when they knocked out the slow roads quite a few years back and built the platforms on top of the slow roads.
Also remember some in West Yorkshire that had at one time wood sleepers placed and surfaced with planks of wood on the platforms to bring them upto train height after subsidance from mine workings under the railway.

 

[Marton]

Gypsy Lane
Marton
Seaton Carew - I think
Tees-side Airport

 

[6Gman]

Parts of Portsmouth Harbour?

Last time I was in Goole I seem to remember a lengthy wooden platform - mind you it was 30+ years ago!

 

[dfurn]

Smithy Bridge is wooden as far as I can recall. It's in the style of the WY PTE stations mentioned above. I wonder if the original poster was really thinking about old stations which still were wooden say from the 1950s onwards, rather than newly (re)opened stations from the 80s and similar?

 

[Failed Unit]

I am sure Methringham and Ruskington both are.

 

[RPM]

Princes Risborough's down platform appears to be a huge raft of wood mounted on concrete struts. It's coated with a non slip surface so you cant see it, but it certainly sounds like wood when you walk on it.

It's a wooden platform surface on a steel framework. The interesting thing about this platform is that it is owned by Chiltern, not Network Rail. Even after the line was being redoubled between Bicester & Princes Risborough Railtrack were disinterested in reinstating the down platform at Risborough (previously up and down trains both used the current up platform). Chiltern felt strongly that the platform was needed so they asked Railtrack for a lease on the land and had the platform & footbridge built themselves.

There is a fully wooden platform nearby though - at Monks Risborough.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

I think Queenstown Road has one, but that particular platform is not currently in use so I'm not sure if we can count it?

 

[bnm]

Smallbrook Junction, Isle of Wight.

 

[Crossover]

As mentioned, West Yorkshire PTE is littered with the blooming things!

Mirfield platform 3 is of a wooden construction, as is Walsden (both platforms)

From what I can remember, at least one of the platforms at Shipley could well be and Crossflatts definitely is (as I recall commenting to gnolife when there on a forum meet about how hollow it sounded and how bouncy it was! - I think we were debating if a lot of people were to jump on it at the same time, if the whole lot would collapse)

 

[Jonny]

Gateshead Metrocentre?