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Largest Station reduced to almost a 1 platform Halt

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delt1c

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Just wondering what is the largest station reduced to almost a 1 platform Halt , still open on the national Network?
 
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To read the original question precisely, it was Birmingham Snow Hill. This had 12 platforms plus multiple through lines, and in the late 1960s was reduced to one unstaffed bay and 10 single-car trains a day. It has, of course, been partially reinstated since. And it's still open. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Snow_Hill_railway_station#Closure

I thought it was 8 platforms (4 north bays, and 4 through platforms which two were split with crossovers) and 2 through lines.
 

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Birmingham Snow Hill had 2 bay platforms open which were platforms 3 and 4 upon closure and a side platform, which was either 1 or 2. It was from this side platform that the very last train of all, a loco hauled train to New Street via Stourbridge Junction.
 

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Windsor & Eton Central has been severely descoped in stages since about 1968. Four platforms down to one which is much reduced in length. Most of the station is now a shopping centre where someone may not even notice the railway platform still in use right at the far corner.
 

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Blackpool South went from 4 to 1, and is the largest non-London example I can think of. Aberystwyth (now the VoR has decamped) also.
Of course, "almost a one platform halt" could allow two platforms - in which case Morecambe (Promenade) was laid out for 6 platforms though I think only 4 were used for passengers, and now has 2.
 
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Windermere went from 4 to 1. I read somewhere including the sidings etc there were 14 lines in total at the peak
 

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Not quite what the OP was asking, but maybe worth adding to the discussion; Manchester Victoria went from 17 platforms to 6, so a reduction of 11. Can anywhere beat that?
 

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If we take a more literal definition of "halt" then it would exclude termini and have few passengers / have limited services / be a request stop / any combination of these??

I nominate Morfa Mawddach: formerly a 4-platform station where even expresses would stop; now a 1-platform request stop with 11,920 entries/exits last year
 

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I nominate Morfa Mawddach: formerly a 4-platform station where even expresses would stop; now a 1-platform request stop with 11,920 entries/exits last year
There must be a good few rural locations like this around the country, which used to have a much bigger station than required for the local settlement on account of being a railway junction - then subsequently severely rationalised after the secondary line had closed.

Connel Ferry comes to mind - single platform & around 7,000 users p.a. now, formerly junction for the Ballachulish branch, with three through platforms plus a bay.
 

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If we take a more literal definition of "halt" then it would exclude termini and have few passengers / have limited services / be a request stop / any combination of these??

I nominate Morfa Mawddach: formerly a 4-platform station where even expresses would stop; now a 1-platform request stop with 11,920 entries/exits last year

Similar could be said for Ambergate, now very much reduced from former grandeur.
 

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I suppose that freight yards don't really fit the original question but I often go past Severn Tunnel Junction and think a massive marshalling complex now just reduced to the odd siding for engineering vehicles (besides the running lies).
 
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Blackpool North reduced from 16 to 6, with Platforms 1 to 6 (the main station) going in 1973 and a further recent reduction with electrification. Slightly at a tangent, I guess Blackpool Central is the largest station in terms of platforms (14) to have closed completely?
 

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Blackpool North reduced from 16 to 6, with Platforms 1 to 6 (the main station) going in 1973 and a further recent reduction with electrification. Slightly at a tangent, I guess Blackpool Central is the largest station in terms of platforms (14) to have closed completely?

Yes it was.

Blackpool North is the biggest reduction from once mighty 16 (though a lot were excursion platforms) to just 8 then later 6 so a total reduction of 14 (beating Manchester Victoria). Did Newcastle and York lose some platforms?
 

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Blackpool North reduced from 16 to 6, with Platforms 1 to 6 (the main station) going in 1973 and a further recent reduction with electrification. Slightly at a tangent, I guess Blackpool Central is the largest station in terms of platforms (14) to have closed completely?

I think St Enoch beats it in overall size, but not by your criterion of number of platforms. In 1921 Blackpool Central had 14 platforms with 8,888 feet of total platform length and covered 10 acres; Glasgow St Enoch and Nottingham Victoria were bigger in acreage (13.5 and 12.75 respectively), and each had 12 platforms (9561 and 8135 feet). Liverpool Exchange had 10 platforms, total 6406 feet and covered 10.75 acres.

Southport Chapel Street was surprisingly big in acreage (14.75 acres, same as Manchester Victoria) and had 13 platforms if you include the excursion platforms; it's now down to 6. I have no figures for Leeds Central, Bradford Exchange, Manchester Central, Liverpool Central or Sheffield Victoria.
 

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What about Bishop Auckland. Went from a 5 platform triangular station on through routes to a single platform halt style terminus.
 
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