1976 saw a Wednesday only service to/from Hull.
Hope that helps!
Morecambe Promenade would fit in this category too. It had two platforms that were barely used apart from excursion traffic although they weren't specifically excursion platforms.
Was Cleethorpes the same? It looks like it used to have a lot more platforms than perhaps needed all year round?
According to the Alan Young book I mentioned. Hopefully someone with a Summer 1976 BR timetable can confirm the actual service provision.Oh, did it? How interesting.
Thanks. Every day you learn something on the Forums.Barmouth - I can only think of the old Ruabon platform east of the Level Crossing on the Up side.
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I would define an Excursion Platform as being separate from the main station in some way, even if it didn't appear in the public timetable as such - eg a separate entrance .
It was signalled for arrivals, so could be used from either line, but was redundant anyway after dieselisation and disused by my first visit in 71 or 72 - and the box diagram on the SRS site has it as the "Excursion Line" so your original point was correct. Using it saved blocking the level crossing.Thanks. Every day you learn something on the Forums.
The 'Ruabon' platform was retained for quite a few years after the 1965 closure of that route and I was under the impression that it was then only used for excursions. It did seem to be separate from the main station.
Perhaps someone can confirm if it was still used for the odd scheduled Cambrian Coast terminator from the south.
I looked in the 1976-77 timetable and there is no Wednesdays only service. All services were Saturdays only to Filey Holiday Camp - and only in summer of course. They were also only in the morning or early afternoon - between 08.46 (first departure) and 14.34 (last departure).According to the Alan Young book I mentioned. Hopefully someone with a Summer 1976 BR timetable can confirm the actual service provision.
According to Alan Young, the Wednesday only experimental service in 1976 was only locally advertised and operated in just July and August that year. Might not have been in any national/regional timetable.I looked in the 1976-77 timetable and there is no Wednesdays only service.
According to Alan Young, the Wednesday only experimental service in 1976 was only locally advertised and operated in just July and August that year. Might not have been in any national/regional timetable.
Weymouth, the current station uses old excursion platforms 5-6. The old station platforms 1-4 were where Halfords and Tradepoint are now.
I was looking in the Great Britain Passenger Timetable, so you could well be right.According to Alan Young, the Wednesday only experimental service in 1976 was only locally advertised and operated in just July and August that year. Might not have been in any national/regional timetable.
Where did the scheduled Saturday services to/from Filey Holiday Camp station in 1976 originate from / go to? (Presumably not just Scarborough and Hull).I was looking in the Great Britain Passenger Timetable, so you could well be right.
I don't know about excursions, it was used for booked arrivals on summer Saturdays, but not AFAIK for departures (much easier to manage arrivals!).Besides the excursion platforms, Weymouth in the 1950s also used the Melcombe Regis platform at the start of the Portland Branch
Here you goWhere did the scheduled Saturday services to/from Filey Holiday Camp station in 1976 originate from / go to? (Presumably not just Scarborough and Hull).
IIRC that was a sort of triangular working, running directly to Scarborough, then serving FHC and Brid en route home.Departures
12.40 to Leicester (from Scarborough dep. 12.01; reversed at FHC; via Hull avoiding line)
You're right - the 07.52 Leicester to Scarbrough (arr. 11.51), via York. This had a 10-minute run round at Scarborough, before leaving as the 12.01 back to Leicester via Filey Holiday Camp and Bridlington. It actually had an 18-minute run-round at FHC.IIRC that was a sort of triangular working, running directly to Scarborough, then serving FHC and Brid en route home.
From old photographic records Barry Links had a loop platform for military specials in connection with a nearby army camp. As the trains wouldn't have been regularly timetabled I suppose that they were 'excursions' for soldiers en route to the Western Front, etc. in a way.I may be wrong but I seem to recall Barry Links had a former excursion platform
Thanks. Good stuff. Have read elsewhere that steam excursions to Scarborough often used to convolutedly reverse into the triangle at Filey Holiday Camp to effectively be turned around for the return working from Scarborough (this in the absence of a working turntable at Scarborough). This probably would no longer have been possible after 1977.
That’s right. I can just remember this happening, probably from 1973 when Bittern and Sir Nigel Gresley visited. The locos went away for some time to be turned at the triangle.16 mile round trip? (Scarborough -> Filey Holiday Camp triangle-> Scarborough)
No. I don't think Crewe was ever a great tourist magnetAre the abandoned disused platforms at Crewe (behind platform 12) former excursion platforms?
No. I don't think Crewe was ever a great tourist magnet
Are the abandoned disused platforms at Crewe (behind platform 12) former excursion platforms?