NoMorePacers
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But it isn't served by NR services and it's designed to take services the length of freight trains.No. Folkestone Eurotunnel Terminal (Cheriton) is the longest. 791m.
But it isn't served by NR services and it's designed to take services the length of freight trains.No. Folkestone Eurotunnel Terminal (Cheriton) is the longest. 791m.
I would disagree on that
But it isn't served by NR services and it's designed to take services the length of freight trains.
Well, the question asked about stations - is Cheriton really a station?That wasn't the question asked to be fair.
Well, the question asked about stations - is Cheriton really a station?
But it isn't served by NR services and it's designed to take services the length of freight trains.
Well, the question asked about stations - is Cheriton really a station?
Consider how far down the platform a southbound service stops - and a whole 9+2 will still fit on the platform. Platform 4 is listed as 458m in the SA. Platform 1 is 441m.
West Allerton has 4 very long platforms for the services that stop there.
Well, the question asked about stations - is Cheriton really a station?
I'd say not - it's a car and lorry loading terminal.
At a station you can walk up to the station (buy a ticket where applicable) then walk onto the platform and get on a train - try that at Cheriton.
I was told about a decade ago that a suburban station on the way in to Euston was having all its platforms lengthened so that in the event of a major incident closing the terminus all the passengers off the incoming flow of trains could be unloaded and the stock sent straightaway head-on into the carriage sidings.
Nowadays, it's unique in Britain in loading passengers in boxes (road vehicles) onto bigger boxes (rail vehicles)! Motorail used to do the same.
No it didn't.
Passengers had to leave their car keys with rail staff who loaded the cars.
They then boarded the train just like a normal passenger.
Sounds like Harrow and Wealdstone, which has all the stop boards laid out for Voyagers and Pendolinos. Though the main reason for the extension was to allow 12-car 350s to stop there.
I was told about a decade ago that a suburban station on the way in to Euston was having all its platforms lengthened so that in the event of a major incident closing the terminus all the passengers off the incoming flow of trains could be unloaded and the stock sent straightaway head-on into the carriage sidings.
West Allerton would fit the same pattern. Any other examples?
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With that in mind, Kensington Olympia has to be pretty damn long
I think Kensington Olympia is 12 coaches, so actually not that long compared to some other entries on here. The thing that makes it seem very long is that 12-car trains never use the station. It is the same thing with Sutton station, 12 coach platforms but usually at most only 10 cars stop.
On all lines? It might come in handy one day, but how many stoppers are on the fast lines?
Does Darlington have very long platforms? They don't seem that long compared to other places ( York, Newcastle, Euston ( sleepers) etc)
By using the length listed in the sectional appendix. 441m as I posted earlier.How do you define the length of platform 1 at Darlington, given that a large chunk at the north end is out of bounds to the public ?
Unless you're on crutches what's wrong with long platforms?