Trivia: Stations with only one platform on double track lines?

[mike57]

Whilst sat on a late running Scarborough bound train outside Malton station waiting for the York bound train to clear the station I wondered how many other stations have only one platform on a double track line. Malton is the only one I have seen.

The timetable means that if the Scarborough bound train is more than a few minutes late then it clashes with the York bound train, and one of them has to wait for the platform. The platform is actually on the Scarborough bound side.

Were there ever more platforms at Malton?

 

[yorksrob]

Does Dore count ?

(Even though there are actually 3 running lines rather than 2.

 

[D6975]

There's one just down the coast from Carlisle. Maryport is it?

and Hartlepool..

 

[headshot119]

Penryn is an odd one. The diagram on Wikipedia explains the layouts better than words.

 

[najaB]

Whilst sat on a late running Scarborough bound train outside Malton station waiting for the York bound train to clear the station I wondered how many other stations have only one platform on a double track line.

Dunbar - the station is on a loop.

 

[Mojo]

Bromsgrove station when it was rebuilt in the late 1960s only had one platform; trains had to cross over in order to call there. An additional platform was added in the 1990s to remove the need to do this. FWIW, a new Bromsgrove station is currently under construction, which will have 4 platforms!

Not sure if it counts, but Aylesbury Vale Parkway has a platform and there is another line that does not have a platform. It's not on a through line though; the platform line ends at some buffer stops.

 

[mike57]

Forgotten about Dunbar, been through it a number of times. Only been through Maryport once, in the dark so didnt really see it. Dore, yes thats another one, I am right in thinking that only Manchester bound/originating trains can call at Dore

 

[yorksrob]

I am right in thinking that only Manchester bound/originating trains can call at Dore

Yes, it's only on the Hope line.

 

[crispy1978]

Looks like Malton used to have three platforms - had to serve up to Pickering in the past.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malton_railway_station#

Though Malton station now has only one platform in use, at its peak, there were two through platforms and an additional bay platform serving (mainly) Whitby local trains. The George Townsend Andrews overall roof was removed in 1989 and replaced by the canopy recovered from the Whitby platform.

One of Malton station's claim to fame was the novel solution adopted to allow passengers to access the second (island) platform, instead of a footbridge or barrow crossing the NER installed a removable section of platform, in the form of a wheeled trolley running on rails set at right-angles to the (single) running line. When a train had to use the platform, the trolley was wheeled back under the up (York) platform; the trolley was interlocked, with the signals giving access to the platform.

 

[RichmondCommu]

Ulceby in North Lincolnshire fits the bill. My wife and I visited it the other week whilst photographing the signal box; its got a tiny platform complete with a simple shelter. Passenger services appear to be only every two hours but on weekdays there is a very frequent freight service.

 

[AM9]

Until recently, Cambridge only had one physical platform for through trains.

I suppose that it was a sort of 'super Penryn'.
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How about Litchfield Trent Valley high level?

 

[thenorthern]

A favorite on here Polesworth.

I think North Road station is like that and Ribblehead was from 1986 until 1993. Barbican mainline was like that I think until it closed in 2009.

 

[Parallel]

Yeoford has one platform and two lines going through it. Well, it does have a second, but it can't be used for passenger service. It's worth noting that the line via. the serviceable platform is used by trains to Barnstaple, and the other line is used by Summer Sunday specials to Okehampton. The lines work seperately from Crediton IIRC as there is no longer a junction at Yeoford.

Also, the proposed station at Pill (Portishead line) is planned to have one platform, despite the planning of two adjacent lines. (One for passenger trains, one for freight.)

 

[railnerd]

Hi.
Syston, north of leicester

 

[RichmondCommu]

How about Litchfield Trent Valley high level?

Yep, I use that station when I visit my Dad. You can clearly see where the other platform used to be and there are also some steps leading up to it.

 

[kjhskj75]

Only one platform at Castleford (near Pontefract) is in use.

 

[Crossover]

Bromsgrove station when it was rebuilt in the late 1960s only had one platform; trains had to cross over in order to call there. An additional platform was added in the 1990s to remove the need to do this. FWIW, a new Bromsgrove station is currently under construction, which will have 4 platforms!

Not sure if it counts, but Aylesbury Vale Parkway has a platform and there is another line that does not have a platform. It's not on a through line though; the platform line ends at some buffer stops.

Yeah, the new station at Bromsgrove is well under construction - having passed it 3 times in the last couple of weeks

Is Aylesbury Vale Parkway counts, then surely Alloa must too (bay platform with a freight line continuing a little further running parallel to it)

 

[30907]

Penryn is an odd one. The diagram on Wikipedia explains the layouts better than words.

Penryn is a passing loop on a single line railway.

Ware is on a double track route but only has one track through the station so maybe doesn't quite qualify.

Was Ulceby originally two platforms?

 

[thenorthern]

What about Newton Heath and Moston and Navagation Road they are rather unique.

 

[Hophead]

Until the new platform was commissioned (10 years or so back?) Kensington Olympia sort of qualified:

• 1 operational through platform (plus bay for District Line)
• Disused southbound platform
• Unfortunately 3 running lines (so not strictly a 'double track' line where the West London Line passes the station)

Unless someone knows better (which they probably will)

 

[RichmondCommu]

Was Ulceby originally two platforms?

From what my wife and I could see that didn't appear to be case, at least we couldn't see any trace of another one having existed. I'd be very happy to be corrected though!

 

[HLE]

Not quite the same thing but Water Orton only has one platform which serves Leicester to Birmingham services.

 

[CockneySparrow]

Trimley in Suffolk, you have the second track that runs through the old platform 2 then takes the curve towards the freight terminal going past the old Felixstowe Beach station

 

[PHILIPE]

There's one just down the coast from Carlisle. Maryport is it?

and Hartlepool..

Maryport, yes.

 

[43074]

The slow lines on the MML at Loughborough have a platform on the down slow (Northbound line) but not on the up (Southbound) so the Lincoln to Leicester services have to cross from the up line to the down line at Loughborough North Jn and back again at Loughborough South Jn having called at the station.

I think it's quite a recent thing because I would assume the third platform was re-instated for the Ivanhoe Line services in 1994.

 

[Stan63]

Ardrossan South Beach and West Kilbride in Ayrshire. Both have 2 lines and only one platform although only the line at the platform is electrified. The other is used for freight from Hunterston.

Stan

 

[thebigcheese]

Chafford Hundred in Essex

 

[Mojo]

What about Corkerhill on the Paisley Canal branch? There is only one platform in use but two tracks go through the station; the line with no platform face ends at buffer stops just past the station and is merely a shunting neck for the nearby depot.
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Chafford Hundred in Essex

Last time I was there was only one line through Chafford Hundred. Has another line been put in recently?

 

[Ediswan]

Does Ware count ? That is a double track line except for a short section around Ware station.

 

[70014IronDuke]

The slow lines on the MML at Loughborough have a platform on the down slow (Northbound line) but not on the up (Southbound) so the Lincoln to Leicester services have to cross from the up line to the down line at Loughborough North Jn and back again at Loughborough South Jn having called at the station.

I think it's quite a recent thing because I would assume the third platform was re-instated for the Ivanhoe Line services in 1994.

I don't think Loughborough ever had a third platform before the modern Ivanhoe service started, ie it was not 're-instated' - it previously only ever had platforms on the fasts. Open to correction though - I'm sure there has to be on MR expert in here who will know.