Trivia: Platforms which have no trains scheduled to call there.

[306024]

Someone will probably correct me.........

Allow me

The 04.43 SX Colchester to Liverpool St calls at Gidea Park and Seven Kings on the up main. I'm struggling to think of anything at Ilford though.

The up avoining line round the back of Manor Park station doesn't have a platform face as shown in the sectional appendix, so I'd like to disqualify that one.

 

[Kite159]

Platform 1 (also known as the Maldon Back Platform) has several booked departures in both the morning/evening peak.
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Where the doors released during the tour at these platforms?

Local door only with the wheelchair ramp being used to bridge the large gap from the 395 to the platform itself.

 

[Puffing Devil]

Platform 3 at Sandbach. It's on the Freight line to Middlewich.

 

[M28361M]

Does Platform 3 at Liverpool South Parkway actually have anything scheduled to depart from it? I know the London Midland services do use it occasionally but are they scheduled to?

According to RTT the 1044 to Birmingham is booked to use platform 3.

Another Merseyrail station that I don't think has been mentioned is platform 1 at Birkenhead North.

 

[Dolive22]

Allow me

The 04.43 SX Colchester to Liverpool St calls at Gidea Park and Seven Kings on the up main. I'm struggling to think of anything at Ilford though.

The up avoining line round the back of Manor Park station doesn't have a platform face as shown in the sectional appendix, so I'd like to disqualify that one.

I'm not sure if I remember the numbering, but as I recall at Ilford, platform 5 has the tracks up, OLE removed and the points going in have been replaced. I usually arrive in from Stratford on 4 and depart on 3, although I have picked up a train at 1 when a train failed in the platform at 3. I think they may have used 2&3 during a closure of the station entrance (and part of the station building?) following a serious crime. I'm pretty sure I also left from platform 1 a week or two ago, the day when all down TfL Rail trains called at platform 10.

Out of interest, does anyone know why they have taken the track up?

 

[Morgsie]

Bournemouth Platforms 1 and 4

 

[swt_passenger]

Bournemouth Platforms 1 and 4

Bournemouth P4 has a couple of booked workings in the evening peak, one terminates and one runs through to Poole. No idea if they actually get used that way though.

 

[Crossover]

Stirling has a couple of bays that aren't signalled for passenger use but I believe may be numbered (facing Northbound)

Platform 2 at Mirfield has no scheduled trains. Last time I saw it used was during engineering works between Huddersfield and Manchester. It may have been used during the Stalybridge blockade (due to not enough capacity to turn everything at Huddersfield, as Bradley Curve is single-track) but I don't recall seeing it in use.

Mirfield is (naturally!) the one I had in mind.

I last saw a train stopped there a month or so ago when the job was stopped due to a person hit somewhere on the line (IIRC) - was a TPE 185 which was an unusual sight. I'd come off the Grand Central service and the next stopper to Huddersfield was cancelled as a result of the issues. It being a Sunday, it was 2 hours until the next so I pointed a couple of people on platform 3 in the direction of the TPE thinking it had a Special Stop Order (SSO) imposed. I did look on RTT after and the TPE didn't move for 40 mins, but given the doors were released, at least it would have got those folk to Huddersfield.

RTT often decides the stoppers have been replatformed to p2 before they arrive....then it changes back to p3 :P

(The first stopper of a Sunday morning used to be scheduled for p2 I think - not seen it pre-planned for ages though)

Don't know for definite but Skegness has 4 usable platforms and only an hourly service so I imagine not all 4 of those are used?

I think only a couple of them may be used regularly - least that's how it looked last time I was there

 

[dk1]

Local door only with the wheelchair ramp being used to bridge the large gap from the 395 to the platform itself.

Cheers. Didn't think they'd allow it without special measures.

 

[Trackman]

Hither Green Platform 1

 

[scrapy]

Platform 3 at Sandbach. It's on the Freight line to Middlewich.

The 07.22 Crewe to Bolton uses it and is booked to wait for 6 minutes to allow an Arriva Wales service to overtake.

 

[306024]

I'm not sure if I remember the numbering, but as I recall at Ilford, platform 5 has the tracks up, OLE removed and the points going in have been replaced. I usually arrive in from Stratford on 4 and depart on 3, although I have picked up a train at 1 when a train failed in the platform at 3. I think they may have used 2&3 during a closure of the station entrance (and part of the station building?) following a serious crime. I'm pretty sure I also left from platform 1 a week or two ago, the day when all down TfL Rail trains called at platform 10.

Out of interest, does anyone know why they have taken the track up?

The main line platforms between Maryland and Brentwood are frequently used when there is engineering work.

At Ilford platform 5 has been taken out of use to allow platform 4 to be extended for Crossrail.

 

[Shrimper]

Blackpool platform 8 (permanently OOU).

Longsight Staff Halts and the Excursion Platform (used to turn the ATW loco hauled service though)

 

[Richard_B]

Do the bays at Exeter St Davids (P2) and Exeter Central (P1?) have anything timetabled in them? I know the Barnstaple and Exmouth services used to use the respective bays, but now the services are all - well, mostly - through services, are they used these days?

At st davids the bay is used by the regularly irregular GWR slow services to Bristol or Cardiff. (4 or 5 tpd I think)

Don't think the bay at central is though.

 

[urbophile]

Does Platform 3 at Liverpool South Parkway actually have anything scheduled to depart from it? I know the London Midland services do use it occasionally but are they scheduled to?

I think more than occasionally. Alternate Birmingham trains stop there I think, and therefore I'm pretty sure they must be scheduled. Platform 4 was rarely used until the through Blackpool (now Preston) trains started.

 

[MK Tom]

Search of this thread turned up no matches for Wellingborough - platform 3?

 

[imagination]

I believe that the fast line platforms at Ealing Broadway and Southall and Hayes & Harlington get Heathrow Connect trains every Sunday. The fast line platform at Acton Main Line gets one Heathrow Connect train a day on Mondays to Thursdays. Havent all of the fast line platforms at West Ealing and Hanwell been removed?

The Sunday situation at Ealing, Southall and Hayes is, I believe, due to frequent engineering works relating to crossrail. I couldn't find any record of a Heathrow Connect service on the fast platform at Acton Main Line on either Monday or Tuesday this week.

Hanwell is a similar situation to Acton Main Line - there is an Up Main platform (gated but it can be opened) but not a Down Main one. You're right about West Ealing, though, so I've removed that one.

 

[Crossover]

Do the bays at Exeter St Davids (P2) and Exeter Central (P1?) have anything timetabled in them? I know the Barnstaple and Exmouth services used to use the respective bays, but now the services are all - well, mostly - through services, are they used these days?

At st davids the bay is used by the regularly irregular GWR slow services to Bristol or Cardiff. (4 or 5 tpd I think)

Don't think the bay at central is though.

Exeter Central p1 looks to be used by 3 services in and the same out each Sunday, though one of the services in an ex Barnstaple that terminates in p3 before running ECS to p1 via Exmouth Junction - I guess it would be a "rusty rail move" to use an otherwise unusual crossover?

 

[takno]

Exeter Central p1 looks to be used by 3 services in and the same out each Sunday, though one of the services in an ex Barnstaple that terminates in p3 before running ECS to p1 via Exmouth Junction - I guess it would be a "rusty rail move" to use an otherwise unusual crossover?

In terms of moves out of the berth EXD plat 2 gets around 0.4% of the total northbound traffic, so I could believe a couple of Sunday services.

Looks like a total of 2 things have gone into the EXC berth in as long as I've been measuring (for comparison there were 730 up movements from plat 3). No idea if they were passenger trains.

 

[adrock1976]

Springburn historically had trains that start from or terminate in Platforms 3 and 4 (the pair that were first wired in 1960) that ran via Bellgrove.

With the recent wiring of the Glasgow & Garnkirk Railway from Springburn to "What's it called? Cumbernauld!" in 2014, the former Dalmuir - Springburn via Yoker trains were extended over the then newly electrified G&GR. As the trains change direction at Springburn mainly in Platforms 1 and 2, this has meant that Platforms 3 and 4 hardly has any trains terminating there nowadays, except during late running or disruption.

 

[Dryce]

There is the old Dufftown branch platform at Keith.

I've been on one ABD-INV passenger train that ended up terminating there after a bridge strike cause delays.

Though maybe it doesn't count as the Royal Scotsman is scheduled to stop overnight there several times over its operating season.

It doesn't seem to be numbered. It is not shown on the National Rail website map of the station facilities.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Mirfield is (naturally!) the one I had in mind.

I last saw a train stopped there a month or so ago when the job was stopped due to a person hit somewhere on the line (IIRC) - was a TPE 185 which was an unusual sight. I'd come off the Grand Central service and the next stopper to Huddersfield was cancelled as a result of the issues. It being a Sunday, it was 2 hours until the next so I pointed a couple of people on platform 3 in the direction of the TPE thinking it had a Special Stop Order (SSO) imposed. I did look on RTT after and the TPE didn't move for 40 mins, but given the doors were released, at least it would have got those folk to Huddersfield.

RTT often decides the stoppers have been replatformed to p2 before they arrive....then it changes back to p3 :P

(The first stopper of a Sunday morning used to be scheduled for p2 I think - not seen it pre-planned for ages though)

I've noticed that on RTT a few times... it's particularly amusing when it's an ex-Wakefield service, as they have no access to the Up fast which serves P2!

 

[bradford758]

Castleford, all trains use the town side platform.
I'm sure the other line could be still used but the overbridge is now blocked off

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[BurtonM]

I don't think I've ever seen a train use the platforms on the fast lines at New Cross Gate, that said I haven't been there since they were building the flyover for the East London Line.

 

[Thebaz]

I don't think I've ever seen a train use the platforms on the fast lines at New Cross Gate, that said I haven't been there since they were building the flyover for the East London Line.

London Bridge to Horsham services (slow from Purley onwards) use them IIRC.

 

[louis97]

Search of this thread turned up no matches for Wellingborough - platform 3?

It gets one booked train per day Monday-Friday at least, 1C92 0736 Derby to St Pancras.

 

[louis97]

Do the bays at Exeter St Davids (P2) and Exeter Central (P1?) have anything timetabled in them? I know the Barnstaple and Exmouth services used to use the respective bays, but now the services are all - well, mostly - through services, are they used these days?

Platform 1 at Exeter Central gets Exmouth trains on a Sunday.

 

[takno]

Platform 1 at Exeter Central gets Exmouth trains on a Sunday.

And in fact just to disprove my point there was something in there last night, although it's a freight so it doesn't count

 

[Deepgreen]

London Bridge to Horsham services (slow from Purley onwards) use them IIRC.

Correct, plus anything else that's diverted to the fasts.

 

[Crossover]

I've noticed that on RTT a few times... it's particularly amusing when it's an ex-Wakefield service, as they have no access to the Up fast which serves P2!

Ah yes - maybe it's voodoo

Castleford, all trains use the town side platform.
I'm sure the other line could be still used but the overbridge is now blocked off

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The other track is usable and is traversed by some TPE's that travel from York to Leeds via Castleford and the odd railtour too (I have been over it both on a diverted TPE and on the Scarborough Spa Express)