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

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I have never seen a train awaiting passengers on platform 1 at Manchester Oxford Road station. If any do use that platform, I would be interested to know what they are.

 

[northwichcat]

And, I seem to recall, Northwich, the platform for the Middlewich branch, fenced off but still there. (It might have changed, I haven't been there in a while).

Platform 3 is still there. Reportedly it was used for one service in the summer due to a track fault with local door operation being used and the passengers being sent through the gate between the two platforms.

While not used for passenger services (except in an exceptional circumstance) sometimes a freight operator arranges a crew change while a train is stopped at platform 3.

 

[bradford758]

Ah yes - maybe it's voodoo



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)

Plus Hull to Leeds via Cas.
I'm sure I remember the other platform in use many years ago but not sure what trains stopped there (the Leeds-Sheffield stoppers ran via Altofts at the time).

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[Kite159]

I have never seen a train awaiting passengers on platform 1 at Manchester Oxford Road station. If any do use that platform, I would be interested to know what they are.

Normally the Late Saturday evenings/Sundays 323s use that platform when starting back from Oxford Road vice Piccadilly

 

[Deepgreen]

Sorry if it's been mentioned - the up fast (wooden) platform at Queenstown Road, Battersea (can't recall whether it's 1 or 3).

 

[D365]

The inner (fast) platforms at St Neots and Biggleswade?

 

[Kite159]

The inner (fast) platforms at St Neots and Biggleswade?

Biggleswade is used by the Peterborough fasts, for example:
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/G45092/2016/12/15/advanced

Similar to St Neots:
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/G45110/2016/12/15/advanced

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In case it hasn't already been mentioned, There is a bay platform at Huntingdon which doesn't see that much traffic, just one train a week is booked (going by RTT), the 09:33 Huntingdon - Kings Cross on Saturdays.

 

[swt class 450]

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.

At Hanwell isnt the track on the fast line platform (P1) now so far away from the platform that it is no longer possible for trains to stop there? I was there last week and if a train was to stop at P1 you would have to be good at jumping to reach the platform!

At Acton Main Line i believe that it is the Mondays to Thursdays 23:24 Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 to London Paddington 23:55 Heathrow Connect service that still calls at Acton Main Line on the fast line platform (P2)? I believe it calls at 23:47? I have been on this service four times in the past and it has always called here.

 

[Andyjs247]

I believe Birmingham Moor Street platform 5 has no regular use.

Also platforms 3 and 4 at Duddeston.

 

[krus_aragon]

Chester's parcel platform (the face opposite P1) is not used for passenger services, but is regularly used for stabling units.

 

[BurtonM]

I have never seen a train awaiting passengers on platform 1 at Manchester Oxford Road station. If any do use that platform, I would be interested to know what they are.

That's a good point - I've got off a train there before, but I think it was an early morning terminator.

 

[imagination]

At Hanwell isnt the track on the fast line platform (P1) now so far away from the platform that it is no longer possible for trains to stop there? I was there last week and if a train was to stop at P1 you would have to be good at jumping to reach the platform!

At Acton Main Line i believe that it is the Mondays to Thursdays 23:24 Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 to London Paddington 23:55 Heathrow Connect service that still calls at Acton Main Line on the fast line platform (P2)? I believe it calls at 23:47? I have been on this service four times in the past and it has always called here.

Re: Hanwell - if it is then that's changed in the past 2 months. That said, with the amount of engineering work going on along that stretch of line that's a more than possible scenario.

I can't seem to find any record of what platform that train stops on, and journey planners and such like seem to not recognise that the train even exists.

I removed both stations from the list just in case. I assume the Acton Main Line train also stops at platform 2 at Ealing Broadway, but that still leaves platform 1 there.

 

[Bungle965]

I have never seen a train awaiting passengers on platform 1 at Manchester Oxford Road station. If any do use that platform, I would be interested to know what they are.

17:14 Manchester Oxford Road to Barrow In Furness uses it. Used to be a 185 operating it as well....
Having a glance at RTT there are numerous deaprtures and arrivals that use it throughout the day.
Sam

 

[westcoaster]

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

P3 is used daily mon to Fri 0842 southbound.
Also used a lot for the first southbound 0517 and the last northbound 0132.

 

[Wookiee]

Fareham P2. (Which may be a poor example as it now has a single arrival in the evening, possibly a rusty rail move?)

Most of the time, that single arrival booked for platform 2 arrives on platform 3 anyway, prior to running ECS to Fratton.

I can't understand why they relaid all the track on platform 2 during the recent closure, given that there are no scheduled services. Seems like a waste of track and concrete sleepers! I think they missed a trick - should have made it a working bi-directional platform by running it on into platform 3 and sticking a crossover northbound at the Portsmouth end. This would allow the frequently late-running Southern services to be terminated without having to shunt into the Netley line, usually with a GWR right up their chuffer!

 

[Puffing Devil]

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

Embarrassed to let the 2*142s dwell at the regular platform

 

[mirodo]

Sorry if it's been mentioned - the up fast (wooden) platform at Queenstown Road, Battersea (can't recall whether it's 1 or 3).

P1, which is also out of use at Battersea Park just up the road.

 

[Crossover]

I have never seen a train awaiting passengers on platform 1 at Manchester Oxford Road station. If any do use that platform, I would be interested to know what they are.

I have used it a number of times and as someone else has mentioned, some of the Northern services turn back there too. I think they try avoid regular use as it is the one platform not accessible via lift, only the stairs

At Hanwell isnt the track on the fast line platform (P1) now so far away from the platform that it is no longer possible for trains to stop there? I was there last week and if a train was to stop at P1 you would have to be good at jumping to reach the platform!

Re: Hanwell - if it is then that's changed in the past 2 months. That said, with the amount of engineering work going on along that stretch of line that's a more than possible scenario.

Pretty sure Hanwell only has the two usable platforms, even when I was there a year or two back. The Down Fast platform no longer exists and the Up Fast track I believe was slewed away from the platform edge, so yes, unusable. There is a fence (no gates) on the platform between the Up Fast and Down Slow tracks on the island platform from what I can recall

 

[Kite159]

P1, which is also out of use at Battersea Park just up the road.

Although IIRC there is no track at P1 at Battersea Park anymore

 

[Deepgreen]

P1, which is also out of use at Battersea Park just up the road.

Yes, but with no track either, which would open a plethora of additional sites if included! I assume this thread is for 'tracked' platforms only?

 

[D365]

Biggleswade is used by the Peterborough fasts, for example:
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/G45092/2016/12/15/advanced

Similar to St Neots:
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/G45110/2016/12/15/advanced

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In case it hasn't already been mentioned, There is a bay platform at Huntingdon which doesn't see that much traffic, just one train a week is booked (going by RTT), the 09:33 Huntingdon - Kings Cross on Saturdays.

Ah ok, it's been a while since I last used the GN fasts

I've never boarded P1 at Huntingdon but I know people who have.

 

[swt class 450]

Re: Hanwell - if it is then that's changed in the past 2 months. That said, with the amount of engineering work going on along that stretch of line that's a more than possible scenario.

I can't seem to find any record of what platform that train stops on, and journey planners and such like seem to not recognise that the train even exists.

I removed both stations from the list just in case. I assume the Acton Main Line train also stops at platform 2 at Ealing Broadway, but that still leaves platform 1 there.

I have used it a number of times and as someone else has mentioned, some of the Northern services turn back there too. I think they try avoid regular use as it is the one platform not accessible via lift, only the stairs





Pretty sure Hanwell only has the two usable platforms, even when I was there a year or two back. The Down Fast platform no longer exists and the Up Fast track I believe was slewed away from the platform edge, so yes, unusable. There is a fence (no gates) on the platform between the Up Fast and Down Slow tracks on the island platform from what I can recall

I cant seem to find that train on Real Time Trains but it is definitely in the printed timetables.

Great Western Railway - https://www.gwr.com/~/media/gwr/pdfs/timetables/september-2016/gw1609-e01-dl-490097-01-web.pdf?la=en

Heathrow Connect - https://www.heathrowconnect.com/train-times

So it appears that it does still run. Perhaps it just hasnt run recently due to engineering works etc. On all four times that i have been on this train it has always called on the fast line platform (P2) so i presume that it is always scheduled to use Platform 2.

Another platform which i dont think has any trains scheduled to call there is Platform 5 at West Drayton station.

 

[Sean Emmett]

Sorry if it's been mentioned - the up fast (wooden) platform at Queenstown Road, Battersea (can't recall whether it's 1 or 3).

The currently disused plat is on the Windsor Reversible, continuation of the Up Windsor Slow from Clapham Jn which I believe becomes the reversible at West London Jn. There are plans to bring it back into use.

Although not always used as such, the centre pair of the Windsor lines are notionally the 'fasts'.

It looks like a new crossover is going in between UWF and WRVL on country side of Queenstown Rd?

 

[randyrippley]

does Weymouth Quay's platform count? No trains have stopped there for a while

 

[IanXC]

Platform 1 at Hull certainly isn't timetables any services, although there are conflicting reports whether it is in a fit state for service during disruption.

I believe Birmingham Moor Street platform 5 has no regular use.

Is the track in that platform even connected to anything?!

 

[Crossover]

Is the track in that platform even connected to anything?!

Isn't 5 at Moor St the one that used to have the steam engine in it? If so, it certainly didn't used to have a connection, but it may have changed since I was last round there

 

[mm333]

Is anything booked to use platform 2 at Saltburn? I can't anything on RTT scheduled for there.

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Does anything use Hereford platform 4?

Stafford Platform 6 ?

Also platform 6 at Wolverhampton has scheduled departures (2 per day ?) but no scheduled arrivals !

6 at Wolves isn't signalled for passenger arrivals I believe.

 

[jopsuk]

As I understand it Platform 4 & 5 at Stirling (north facing bays) are not usable in passenger service?

 

[najaB]

As I understand it Platform 4 & 5 at Stirling (north facing bays) are not usable in passenger service?

I believe you are correct due to the lack of facing point locks. (And it was posted up-thread as well, so that's three of us who think so! )