Welshpool ? When the bypass was built the running lines were moved and a new platform built.
Yes, it went a short time ago (1910ish?)! Despite that, platform indicators there still sometimes tell us that "the next train is not scheduled to call at this station"!Waterloo. That old connecting line to Waterloo East was taken away right?
Plymouth. Those old platforms closest to the concourse were split up.
Not really - it simply aligned with the disused bridge opposite the concourse.Gone by 1911, according to previous discussions. The present buildings, track and platform layout date from completion of a 20 year rebuild in 1922, then there were some more minor alterations to platform widths in the area of the cab road prior to the Eurostar platforms being built.
I think it’s possible to go back a little too far with these questions, it’s now almost impossible to visualise where the through route to Waterloo East would have gone.
Yes, what I probably really meant was that there is absolutely no evidence of the route if looking at the main station building from the current barrier line.[…]
Not really - it simply aligned with the disused bridge opposite the concourse.
With you - quite right.Yes, what I probably really meant was that there is absolutely no evidence of the route if looking at the main station building from the current barrier line.
London Bridge Northern Line platforms are slightly different as the circulating tunnel between them used to be one of the running tunnels. The Bank rebuild will do something similar.Angel - the ertstwhile island platform became too narrow for the rapid increase in traffic in the 1990s and it was extended over a previous running line to become a single face and a new tunnel alignment was built alongside. A similar thing had happened in the late 1960s at Euston (City branch) to accommodate the Victoria line there.
Down the years Durham has a couple of realignments. Back in the early 1960s, the limit through the station and onto the viaduct was 30 mph. It was realigned to 50 and later 75. The Down main was removed and, as stated, is now where the pasts are, the up main became the down main and the up line was slewed to run through the platform. In the earlier realignment I think that the up platform may have been cut back slightly, certainly the up bays were removed at that time/My mistake - been a while since I had any dealings with that station. Am I still correct in my thinking that the platforms remained as there were during the electrification changes, and the Masts are on the former trackbed of the old Down Main?
Newmarket. The "new" platform is clearly built on what used to be a running line.
Newmarket railway station, Suffolk © Nigel Thompson
Opened in 1902 by the Great Eastern Railway on what is today the line from Cambridge to Bury St Edmunds, this station replaced an earlier terminus station around 600m behind the camera position. View south west towards Dullingham and Cambridge. The 1902 station building is in the background but...www.geograph.org.uk
I should have known that. It is my home station when I am back in the UK and I remember the old layout in the late 1960s.Preston (Lancs) "new" platform 5/6, south end.
South Kensington used to be a four platform station now one ultra wide island platform station.
Gloucester Road too - went from 4 platforms to 3 (not to 2 like South Ken). The island platform for all eastbounds, and for Circle westbounds [though I think it can deal with westbound Districts, and occasionally does?] must be covering up what used to be the westbound Circle track. Both these station changes stem from years ago when they stopped having the District and Circle routes branching from one another east of South Ken and running through those 2 stations as separated pairs of tracks - the old layout caused westbound backlogs on the trunk section because of the conflicting movements between westbound Circles and eastbound Districts.
One of the Stations on the Chiltern line had this for a similar reason. The station name escapes me though, Haddenham and Thame?
South Kensington had 7 platform faces, 2 Circle, 2 District, middle bay, westbound side bay.South Kensington used to be a four platform station now one ultra wide island platform station.
Districts can no longer use pfm.2Gloucester Road too - went from 4 platforms to 3 (not to 2 like South Ken). The island platform for all eastbounds, and for Circle westbounds [though I think it can deal with westbound Districts, and occasionally does?]
Correct. This is the end of the Bury bound platform of the "Second" stationI thought the "present station" is the truncated platform of the original station which can be seen in the background of the photo.?
South Kensington had 7 platform faces, 2 Circle, 2 District, middle bay, westbound side bay.
Districts can no longer use pfm.2