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Trivia; platforms on bridges over large rivers/lakes/sea?

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Lewisham North Kent platforms are over the River Ravensbourne and Dartford platforms are over the River Darenth.
 
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Lymington Pier station is on solid ground isn’t it? Ryde Pier Head most certainly isn’t!
When I used the ferry in the 1960s when travelling to the IoW for family holidays, at least part of the station extended out over the water.
Unfortunately none of my photos taken on these 1960s trips clearly show this.
Looking at more recent photos, it looks as though to improve access for vehicles, the station has been moved back onto solid ground and those arriving by train now have to use a walkway to access the pedestrian loading points on the ferries.
 

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Technically, I'm not entirely sure they're actually over the river but I don't think I've ever checked in great detail. The bridge goes over part of the Embankment too.
Views from the London Eye show that platforms 1 & 2 (I think that's their numbers) cross the Embankment and make it over the Thames by about one coach length!
 

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Dependent on which coach you are in at Chesterfield, you will find yourself sat over the River Rother that flows under Platform 1 & 2, the River often floods the houses you can see to the rear of Platform 1
Bit of trivia, those houses, Tapton Terrace, were built for the workers of the Edward Eastwood wagon works which was just north of the station
 

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The original Heron Quays DLR station used to be on the bridge between Heron Quay / Bank St and Canary Wharf. In this video the site is visible from 15:20.


The platforms have been removed but the mirror is still there!
 

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Cathcart is on a bridge over the river Cart (White Cart Water to be precise). Pollokshaws West stops just short of the same river.

Edit: and Paisley Gilmour Street platform ends are over it as well!
 
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This photo (click on it to go to the larger original) shows that two platforms at Charing Cross have been extended far enough onto the bridge to just be over the Thames:
Hungerford Bridge

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I'm open to correction but I think to be really pedantic, Hungerford Bridge is only the name of the pedestrian bridge slung alongside it (and now also one on the other side). When the railway bridge was built it replaced the old Hungerford footbridge. As far as I know, the railway bridge is simply Charing Cross Railway Bridge.' But as I said, I might be wrong.
 

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I'm open to correction but I think to be really pedantic, Hungerford Bridge is only the name of the pedestrian bridge slung alongside it (and now also one on the other side). When the railway bridge was built it replaced the old Hungerford footbridge. As far as I know, the railway bridge is simply Charing Cross Railway Bridge.' But as I said, I might be wrong.

The railway bridge is the Hungerford Bridge, which NWR refer to as Charing Cross Bridge. The pedestrian bridges are the Golden Jubilee Bridges.
 

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The medieval Sincil Dike (irrigation/drainage channel) is culverted under the eastern end of Lincoln Central station. The footbridge that spans the station was built to replace the public right of way along the bank of the dike. Not sure if the water can be seen from anywhere on the station premises though.
 

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Sloane Square station is directly under the River Westbourne - it passes above in an aqueduct that can clearly be seen (and heard) from the platforms.
 

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Port Victoria (closed 1951) was on a wooden pier over the Medway estuary
 

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Blackfriars station, last time I was down that way in September last year. Photos taken from Tate Modern viewing area and the OXO Tower Restaurant. Being fully covered you don't see the platforms from up here, or much of the river from inside the station. There're some nice views from both locations, but the OXO restaurant is best visited in the morning before it opens when you can just walk around while the staff are busy setting up for lunch.

Blackfriars 1.jpg Blackfriars 2.jpg
 

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Cathcart is on a bridge over the river Cart (White Cart Water to be precise). Pollokshaws West stops just short of the same river.

Edit: and Paisley Gilmour Street platform ends are over it as well!

Pollokshaws East also sits over the White Cart Water
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https://www.railscot.co.uk/img/7/360/

The building is long gone however.

Kyle of Lochalsh is also on a pier, but I could not tell you if that pier was solid or on posts
 

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Doesn't the Clyde run through (or very close to) St. Enoch station?

Also, Portsmouth Harbour. Look down through the former platform 2 and you see water!
 

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Sloane Square station is directly under the River Westbourne - it passes above in an aqueduct that can clearly be seen (and heard) from the platforms.
and the River Tyburn runs through a small aquaduct at the west end of the Circle line platforms at Baker Street station.
 

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New Holland Pier was until the Humber bridge came along and made it redundant.

The platforms at Mytholmroyd extend above both the road and the Cragg Brook but the section above the river is no longer in use
 

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No it isnt.
I mean we could go all panto on this but looking at pictures, it does seem that about 50% of the platform is indeed on piles extended seaward of the wall, such that at high tide there is water underneath it.
 

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Doesn't the Clyde run through (or very close to) St. Enoch station?
The platforms in St Enoch were more or less parallel to the river and, although they curved to the south, I don’t think they went far enough to be over it.
 
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