lxfe_mxtterz
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Trains that are actually on time.
It would however be quite a complex solution in that it would have to be interlocked with the signalling. Otherwise there'd be the risk of it being used when a train was due or being left in position in front of a train.There's still a few stations on the network without disabled access to both platforms, having only a footbridge with stairs. I've often wondered about a solution like this, for 'lightly' used lines.
Modern designs of footbridges with lifts are, in my opinion, universally unsightly spoiling the look and feel of rural stations in particular. I'd thought of something that rose from ground level.
Oh, another one: Jessie's Seat - a memorial to a guard killed in an accident in 1892, on the North Downs Line. It's a topiary bush in the form of a pheasant, right in the middle of nowhere, but kept up by maintenance staff ever since. Visible at 19:46 in this video -
Oh, another one: Jessie's Seat - a memorial to a guard killed in an accident in 1892, on the North Downs Line. It's a topiary bush in the form of a pheasant, right in the middle of nowhere, but kept up by maintenance staff ever since. Visible at 19:46 in this video -
I always thought of the Water Street entrance to Liverpool James Street as being a bit of an oddity, in it being a sloped entrance to a deep level station.
Oh, another one: Jessie's Seat - a memorial to a guard killed in an accident in 1892, on the North Downs Line. It's a topiary bush in the form of a pheasant, right in the middle of nowhere, but kept up by maintenance staff ever since. Visible at 19:46 in this video -
Not sure how odd is odd but I might point you at former Eastern Counties Railway stations in Cambridgeshire (Waterbeach is the canonical example) which were built with offset platforms either side of a level crossing and no footbridge, which is a fairly unusual layout. .
And regularly at SkiptonHappens at Liskeard when the Moorswater cement runs.
Go to Barrhill, the instruments are in an office on the platform, not in the boxLooks like a trip up to Scotland might be needed soon!
The tram platform, opposite the main platform but with a fence in the middle (do you have to go under the bridge to get to it?) is also patently bizarre.Birkbeck always seems like a rural backwater with its single line line and single platform despite being in London.
You do have to go under the bridge to change.The tram platform, opposite the main platform but with a fence in the middle (do you have to go under the bridge to get to it?) is also patently bizarre.
When I was little, I always loved crossing the track on the barrow crossing to reach Silkstone Common station from the Cone Lane.
Thanks.You do have to go under the bridge to change.
Dilton Marsh has a similar situation with highly staggered platforms, and it is at a road underbridge!Buckenham (Norfolk) station: Platforms either side of the level crossing, but the Norwich platform is about 100 metres up a path from said level crossing. Surely putting the platform right by the crossing would have been better.
And at Alton for the Holybourne tanks. Slightly more unusual is that this causes a gap in the clock face timetable on a weekday with the 10:23 from Waterloo only running to Farnham to provide a path on the single line. Not that it is a frequent freight service!I don't know if this counts but there is a goods train from Ardingly to Haywards Heath on certain weekday mornings. Once at Haywards Heath I seem to think the diseal locomotive is detached and then runs round to the front of the train before being attached and heading north.
Whilst this might be common in some freight yards, I'd have thought it less common at a passenger station.
Chaffers level crossing? Got changed to a treadle about 4 years ago I think. Notorius for having dog crap smeared on the plunger.Not sure if it's still worked like that but what about that level crossing between Colne and Nelson? The train has to stop so that the driver can lean out and pull a string to lower the barriers.
I think theres a fair few stations like this around the country though the only one that comes to mind right now is Sturry in Kent.
Not sure if it's still worked like that but what about that level crossing between Colne and Nelson? The train has to stop so that the driver can lean out and pull a string to lower the barriers.
Barmouth (on the Cambrian Coast line) used to have a string for the crossing, too, which is why trains coming off the bridge used to stop short of the station. Don't know if it's still there, though.
Doesn't the Barnstaple Line have something similar