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Trivia: Stations with surviving run-around loops?

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Weymouth has RR facilities between platforms 1 & 2.
Lots of crossovers at Bournemouth, but it isn't signalled for RR movements unless there are no other movements in the area.
The RR was removed from Portsmouth Hbr in the 1960's resignalling, so all trains needed a turnover loco.
Eastbourne has a GF and RR line alongside platform 1. Any charters or engineering trains are top and tailed because it's easier.
 

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Looking at on-line photos it would appear that Wick and Thurso still have ground frame operated release crossovers, unless they have been removed in the last two years.
 

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AFAIK locos can still run round at Cleethorpes.

One station where you thought that it may be possible, but isn't, is Hellifield. DMUs can't even reverse there and have to travel to Settle Junction to do the manoeuvre. A loco hauled train would have to go all the way north to Blea Moor for the engine to swap ends.
 

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AFAIK locos can still run round at Cleethorpes.

One station where you thought that it may be possible, but isn't, is Hellifield. DMUs can't even reverse there and have to travel to Settle Junction to do the manoeuvre. A loco hauled train would have to go all the way north to Blea Moor for the engine to swap ends.
Isn't that to do with the signalling/lack of point locks rather than lack of loops?
 
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As used by the Harwich Boat Train, which used to bring a class 37 to Manchester when I were a lad.

Didn't the Cardiff services pre sprinterisation, alternate between Liverpool and Manchester ?Thus bringing a 37 to the North , which had to go back towards Wales straight away. I.e. not involve this shunt release and sit in a siding till later movement , mentioned earlier in the discussion.
 

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Those ground frames at Piccadilly were controlled from a small wooden box at the front of the platforms.
Once the shunt signal was set, the PB would release the ground frame and you would rotate a switch to move the points.
 

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Unless things have changed I believe there is a loop on the bus station side but just a siding on the retaining wall side.
The second crossover was (is?) between the middle two platforms (platforms two and three I assume).
 

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Manchester Piccadilly, and Liverpool Lime Street for loco-hauled Cross Country services up until the early 2000s.
Which platforms at Lime Street? I don’t remember that. All north and south Pennines, and trains to / from Preston and beyond, were shunt released in the 1980s. As were electric services from Euston. I can’t remember about cross country, but would have thought they were too.
 

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Barnstaple has a loop just off the platform accessed by a 3 lever GF. It was used for Exeters famous scratch sets. I'm surprised it still survives. It replaced the old run round loop via the disused down platform.
 

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Cholsey platform 5 has one for the Cholsey and Wallingford Railway. while the line is completely separate to the main line, the station is National Rail, so might count!
 

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Enfield Town still has a ground frame between two of the lines. If I remember rightly, that may have outlived the actual crossover... Can’t recall accurately.

EDIT: Nope, it’s still there.
 

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Manchester Piccadilly still has a ground frame between Platforms 5 and 6.
Oddly enough I recently saw a picture of a Class 60 on the blocks at Man Picc, running round a freight. For some reason the normal route for the freight was blocked and the signaller convinced control to allow it to run into Man Picc.
 
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