Trivia: Stations that have other lines passing through or near them without platforms.

[swt class 450]

Which stations have lines without platforms that go to a different place than the lines with platforms?

I can think of the following six do far:

• Brixton (on the Clapham High Street to Denmark Hill line)
• Brockley (on the Lewisham to Nunhead line)
• Dore & Totley (on the Dronfield to Sheffield line)
• Loughborough Junction (on the Clapham High Street to Denmark Hill line + on the East Curve line + on the West Curve line)
• South Hampstead (on the Harrow On The Hill to London Marylebone line)
• West St Leonards (on the Bexhill to St Leonards Warrior Square line)

So to clarify i am not talking about lines which go through station but go to the same places (so like four track layouts such as Anerley or Berrylands don't count and stations like Kilburn High Road or South Kenton don't count either). Hope this explains it.

Can anyone think of any others?

 

[PaxVobiscum]

Newton (Lanarkshire): Platforms for Hamilton and Larkhall; WCML passes by on other lines.

 

[scrapy]

Salford Central (Man Vic to Eccles/Deansgate passes behind)
Hyde North (Guide Bridge to Flowery Field passes behind)
Lostock (Bolton to Westhoughton passed behind)
Wigan NW (Ince to Wigan Wallgate passes by)
Ravensthorpe (Mirfield to Wakefield Kirkgate passes behind)
Stone (Barlaston to Rugeley TV has no platforms)
Carnforth (no platforms on WCML)
Walton (no platforms Kirkdale to Rice Ln)
Ardwick (no platforms Man Picc to Levenshulme/Mauldeth Rd)

 

[etr221]

Carnforth. (No longer platforms on WCML)
Kew Bridge - no platforms on line to S Acton

At least arguable - Wandsworth Road and Clapham High Street (no platforms for trains to Waterloo!); and St Johns (for Lewisham Vale Jn)

 

[ForTheLoveOf]

Dagenham Dock - HS1 passes by directly past the station, but (unsurprisingly) doesn't stop there.

 

[JBuchananGB]

Willesden Junction. No platforms for WCML.

 

[Taunton]

Manchester Exchange/Victoria used to be an oddball one, where trains eastbound from Exchange would pass on through lines between the two sets of Victoria platforms; they had been different companies until 1923.

The all-time classic was Limerick Junction in Ireland, although that has been modified in recent years. Situated at the right-angle flat crossing of two main routes, Dublin to Cork and Limerick to Waterford, and a passenger interchange between the two lines, NONE of these were connected to a platform, and every train had to reverse to get to the platforms, which were to one side in one quadrant of the crossing. The classic Irish description was "Every train has to go through it or past it before it can get into it".

 

[superjohn]

Bethnal Green only has platforms on the West Anglia lines towards Hackney Downs. The GEML passes alongside.

 

[philthetube]

Bushey, four lines three platforms.

 

[ANDREW_D_WEBB]

Ruislip Gardens has the Chiltern Line passing the Central Line station without platforms.

Northolt and to North Acton Central Line inclusive have the line from Northolt Junction to Old Oak parallel to it.

Piccadilly Line between Hammermith and Acton Town does not have platforms for most intermediate stations served by the District Line.

District Line from Bromley by Bow to Upminster runs parallel to C2C with most stations having no platforms for C2C services.

West Hampstead has both Met Line and Chiltern Line passing whilst the platforms are the sole preserve of the Jubilee Line.

Burnham, Hanwell, West Ealing and Acton Main Line all have no fast line platforms, whilst Royal Oak has none for National Rail.

 

[ANDREW_D_WEBB]

Dagenham Dock - HS1 passes by directly past the station, but (unsurprisingly) doesn't stop there.

Rainham, one stop east, is similar.

 

[Esker-pades]

Ravensthorpe: platforms on the line to Leeds, none going towards Wakefield and Pontefract.

 

[Altfish]

Lockerbie (Freight line round back of the southbound platform)
Northwich (Freight line round back of Chester bound platform)

 

[alangla]

Pollokshields East. 2 sides of the Cathcart circle plus EK/Barrhead. Only 1 has platforms

 

[Esker-pades]

Cathcart station itself.

 

[vlad]

Skipton has a freight line round the back of the station.

Would Crewe count? It's got an extensive network of avoiding lines even though it doesn't really serve anywhere you can't get to from one of the platforms.

 

[Llama]

Euxton Balshaw Lane.

 

[DPWH]

Caldicot.

 

[richard1976]

Runcorn has a freight line running behind one of the platforms

 

[Mag_seven]

Shawlands - the Kilmarnock/East Kilbride line (no platforms) passes under just after the end of the platform at the Glasgow end.

Craigendoran - platforms on the Helensburgh line but none (any more) on the adjacent West Highland Line.

Bogston - platforms on the Gourock line but none on the adjacent and above Wemyss Bay line

Barnhill - platforms on the Springburn line but none on the adjacent and above Cumbernauld line.

Coatbridge Central - the connecting line from Whifflet to the Airdrie line passes the back of the Motherwell bound platform.

LUL example - Aldgate. The Hammersmith and City line passes at the north end, the District line at the south end.

 

[Bedpan]

Which stations have lines without platforms that go to a different place than the lines with platforms?

I can think of the following six do far:

• Brixton (on the Clapham High Street to Denmark Hill line)
• Brockley (on the Lewisham to Nunhead line)
• Dore & Totley (on the Dronfield to Sheffield line)
• Loughborough Junction (on the Clapham High Street to Denmark Hill line + on the East Curve line + on the West Curve line)
• South Hampstead (on the Harrow On The Hill to London Marylebone line)
• West St Leonards (on the Bexhill to St Leonards Warrior Square line)

So to clarify i am not talking about lines which go through station but go to the same places (so like four track layouts such as Anerley or Berrylands don't count and stations like Kilburn High Road or South Kenton don't count either). Hope this explains it.

Can anyone think of any others?

South Hampstead is on the dc lines out of Euston - I can't see that the lines through the platform go to a different place as they go to Euston in one direction and Watford Junction in the other, although admittedly they do deviate in places further up the line, ie round the back of the sidings at Stonebridge Park, and then round the loop through Watford High Street after Bushey. ..... Ort was there once a ddifferent South hampstead station between Marylebone and Harrow on the Hill?

 

[swt class 450]

The lines to/from London Marylebone cross over the lines to/from London Euston at the South end of the platforms at South Hampstead station.

These photos show it quite well:

https://flic.kr/p/byra3o

https://flic.kr/p/cFMguw

Hope this explains it.

 

[ijmad]

Wandsworth Road - adjacent through lines go to Victoria, whereas the platformed lines go to Clapham Junction. In the other direction many ex-Victoria trains take the Bromley South line, some go via Denmark Hill but not all stop and certainly none head to the ELL.

 

[d9009alycidon]

Coatbridge Central - the connecting line from Whifflet to the Airdrie line passes the back of the Motherwell bound platform.

Think you are mixing up the up slow line which is the line goes round the back of the platform and the Whifflet to Sunnyside line which is on a different bridge with a road in between, but Whifflet station counts as the two lines are much closer together and the junction is just to the south of the station.
Rutherglen has an island platform on the line to Central Low Level, but the platform on the main line into high level is disused

 

[IanD]

So to clarify i am not talking about lines which go through station but go to the same places (so like four track layouts such as Anerley or Berrylands don't count and stations like Kilburn High Road or South Kenton don't count either). Hope this explains it.

Reading the responses so far for 99% of people that didn't explain it

 

[Dr_Paul]

So to clarify i am not talking about lines which go through station but go to the same places (so like four track layouts such as Anerley or Berrylands don't count and stations like Kilburn High Road or South Kenton don't count either). Hope this explains it.

The DC lines through to Watford Juncton are an interesting case here, as one might consider that this criterion applies between Kilburn High Road and Euston, but not between Queens Park and Watford Junction, as Bakerloo Line services branch off at the former and don't go to Euston.

Queenstown Road might well be included, as there are platforms only on the Windsor line. However, one might argue against that on the grounds that everything goes to Vauxhall in the up direction and Clapham Junction in the down direction, or that it is possible to start on the Main line side at Waterloo, cross to the Windsor lines, go through the station, and then cross back to the Main lines (and the same in reverse when going up), but that would be bending the criterion a little too far.

 

[greyman42]

Knottingley. The line that serves the ECML.

 

[Bedpan]

The lines to/from London Marylebone cross over the lines to/from London Euston at the South end of the platforms at South Hampstead station.

These photos show it quite well:

https://flic.kr/p/byra3o

https://flic.kr/p/cFMguw

Hope this explains it.

Very interesting and good photos! I must have travelled out of Marylebone a fair few times in my life but never knew that. I've been having a look on Google Earth also and two other interesting things I've learned - (1) You can follow the path of the line south into Marylebone by looking at the curvature of the roads above the tunnel, (2) I had always thought that the Metropolitan Line tunnels were alongside the Great Central line but in fact they are up to 200 yards to the east, more or less all they way to Finchley Road station - and they are in a tunnel where they cross the WCML and (3) the Metropolitan line runs in the open air just behind a wall alongside the pavement of the Finchley road adjacent to where Marlborough Road station was situated.

 

[vlad]

The lines to/from London Marylebone cross over the lines to/from London Euston at the South end of the platforms at South Hampstead station.

If that counts then how about Birmingham Moor Street, which is on top of the line heading east from New Street.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Knottingley. The line that serves the ECML.

Good one. The Askern line (to Doncaster, used by GC services) has no platforms.