Trivia - disused passenger stations that are still used for rail purposes?

[Howardh]

Ie. they aren't used for passenger use - whether on "live" lines, freight-only lines or abandoned ones.

Thoughts are that old stations, where still standing (!) could be used for training, storage, film locations (ie owned by the TOC's/railways and lent out for filming) and plenty of other stuff I can't think of??

 

[GrimsbyPacer]

Monkwearmouth station is a museum in county Durham, it has railway history at the forefront. It's a Georgian style building, the trains run past non stop as St Peter's nearby replaced it.
Does that count?

 

[Howardh]

Monkwearmouth station is a museum in county Durham, it has railway history at the forefront. It's a Georgian style building, the trains run past non stop as St Peter's nearby replaced it.
Does that count?

Yes, is it a railway museum or just the front?

 

[cool110]

Despite being closed in 1961 trains still stop at Midge Hall as the signal box is the changeover point between TCB and key token.

 

[jdp30]

King's Cross Thameslink, between St Pancras and Farringdon in the TL Core, has a lot of electrical equipment on the platforms now for the core's signalling system I think?

 

[Recessio]

King's Cross Thameslink, between St Pancras and Farringdon in the TL Core, has a lot of electrical equipment on the platforms now for the core's signalling system I think?

It also at least used to be (and still might be) an evacuation point for the Thameslink core.

 

[bramling]

Ie. they aren't used for passenger use - whether on "live" lines, freight-only lines or abandoned ones.

Thoughts are that old stations, where still standing (!) could be used for training, storage, film locations (ie owned by the TOC's/railways and lent out for filming) and plenty of other stuff I can't think of??

Most of LU’s disused tunnel stations are well used by engineering staff and contractors, and on occasions can come alive at night during engineering hours.

One or two still house operational functions, for example Down Street houses an interlocking machine room, and many are designated as intervention points or emergency detrainment locations. North End / Bull & Bush housed a floodgate control room from the 1950s but this is no longer operational. King William Street and its tunnels act as a cable route for the high tension feeder cables which supply power to the Jubilee Line Extension. And of course Charing Cross Jubilee Line platforms are still operational and used for filming/training.

 

[Irascible]

Quainton Road, is usually on the freight line to Calvert ( in between railways being built ) & is a museum with very occasional main line passenger services, ie the platform is usable.

Are any of the stations up to Stocksbridge still there?

 

[Mat17]

Quainton Road, is usually on the freight line to Calvert ( in between railways being built ) & is a museum with very occasional main line passenger services, ie the platform is usable.

Are any of the stations up to Stocksbridge still there?

I believe the platforms are still there at Deepcar, the station building certainly is.

Oughtibridge, at least 1 platform is still there it seems.

 

[Howardh]

It also at least used to be (and still might be) an evacuation point for the Thameslink core.

Yes, that one is an obvious answer to my question, seen it several times and wonder if it could ever be brought back to use if needed, even if just for emergencies, or if it is beyond repair yet suitable for railway use as alluded to?

 

[swt_passenger]

Yes, that one is an obvious answer to my question, seen it several times and wonder if it could ever be brought back to use if needed, even if just for emergencies, or if it is beyond repair yet suitable for railway use as alluded to?

It’s far too short for 12 car trains and the platform widths are very substandard at the south end. If it had been possible to improve it they wouldn’t have built the new station. So no, it won’t be brought back into use.

 

[Howardh]

It’s far too short for 12 car trains and the platform widths are very substandard at the south end. If it had been possible to improve it they wouldn’t have built the new station. So no, it won’t be brought back into use.

Thanks - think I phrased my question badly, by "if needed" thinking as an emergency route out, or if one of the other stations nearby had to close unexpectedly (eg fire/flooding etc) so pax would have to move down the carriage due to the trains being longer than the platforms?

 

[swt_passenger]

Thanks - think I phrased my question badly, by "if needed" thinking as an emergency route out, or if one of the other stations nearby had to close unexpectedly (eg fire/flooding etc) so pax would have to move down the carriage due to the trains being longer than the platforms?

It’s already a designated evacuation point, as post #6 replied, so moving down the train must be part of the procedure.

 

[BeijingDave]

Ditton may qualify...

Disused Stations: Ditton Station

 

[RPI]

St Blazey is still used for the signalman to hand the token to the driver

 

[vic-rijrode]

Yes, is it a railway museum or just the front?

Sadly it is no longer a railway museum - it is now a "football museum" with football memorabilia mostly for fans of Sunderland AFC.

The railway museum was closed in 2017 as Wikipedia states "...the roof, footbridge and platforms were claimed to be in a very poor condition...".

 

[bramling]

Sadly it is no longer a railway museum - it is now a "football museum" with football memorabilia mostly for fans of Sunderland AFC.

The railway museum was closed in 2017 as Wikipedia states "...the roof, footbridge and platforms were claimed to be in a very poor condition...".

To be fair the railway museum was pretty much in the category of living dead when we visited in 2016(ish). There seemed to be pretty much nothing in there, so it’s probably doing better in its current role. At least it has a purpose.

 

[sprunt]

The New York Transit Museum is housed in the former Court Street subway station - this was at the end of a now disused Aldwych style spur to a subway line.

 

[lyndhurst25]

Peak Forest station, closed in 1967, is still standing and in use as offices/accommodation to support the Buxton area freight trains.

 

[AzureOtsu]

Sheffield Victoria? At least the through line

 

[Royston Vasey]

The New York Transit Museum is housed in the former Court Street subway station - this was at the end of a now disused Aldwych style spur to a subway line.

That's an excellent museum too, and I think the running lines are not only still extant and connected, but also powered. Most of the cars are operable.

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Sadly it is no longer a railway museum - it is now a "football museum" with football memorabilia mostly for fans of Sunderland AFC.

The railway museum was closed in 2017 as Wikipedia states "...the roof, footbridge and platforms were claimed to be in a very poor condition...".

To be fair the railway museum was pretty much in the category of living dead when we visited in 2016(ish). There seemed to be pretty much nothing in there, so it’s probably doing better in its current role. At least it has a purpose.

Used to be a really good afternoon out in the late 80s, a good general local and transport museum. Now replaced by the much larger museum and winter gardens in the city centre. You could cross the bridge and view the trains from the northbound platform as well, behind glass IIRC.They had an old green Corporation bus cab you could sit in and "drive" which was great fun for an under 10!

Are the odd wagons and guard's van still in the goods platform? It's years since I passed.

 

[JD2168]

There is a disused station at Masbrough near Rotherham on the not via Rotherham Central line, I have often seen Freight trains waiting there sometimes with carriages others just the engine part parked there.

 

[Mat17]

There is a disused station at Masbrough near Rotherham on the not via Rotherham Central line, I have often seen Freight trains waiting there sometimes with carriages others just the engine part parked there.

You could also add Brightside and Attercliffe Road which are still in situ (mostly).

 

[181]

If non-UK examples are allowed, there's the former Midland Great Western station at Athlone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athlone_railway_station#Midland_Great_Western_Railway.

 

[AlbertBeale]

It’s far too short for 12 car trains and the platform widths are very substandard at the south end. If it had been possible to improve it they wouldn’t have built the new station. So no, it won’t be brought back into use.

There were other reasons to build a new Thameslink station where it is now, under St P, besides the existing one [which I used a lot!] being short and narrow.

 

[Bill57p9]

All trains still stop at the long closed Glenwhilly station between Girvan and Stranraer to exchange tablets. Closer to Stranraer, they also stop at Dunragit signalbox but this is at the level crossing rather than using the original platforms. And they really are (electric) tablets there.

Staying in South West Scotland, the single remaining platform of Annbank station (which is actually in neighbouring Mossblown) was used by trains coming out of Killoch until that traffic dried up a couple of years ago. Any train entering or leaving the Killoch branch had to stop at "Annbank" to return/collect the Mauchline - Newton Junction electric token and collect/return the Killoch branch staff.

Gorton on the West Highland Line is also still a token exchange point and engineering siding however I don't believe anything has stopped there for a number of years.

 

[Starmill]

It’s far too short for 12 car trains and the platform widths are very substandard at the south end. If it had been possible to improve it they wouldn’t have built the new station. So no, it won’t be brought back into use.

The former small part of the the station, entrance to Kings Cross Thameslink on Pentonville Road, was of course still very useful for the Victoria line as entrance to London Underground was still possible until recently. I think it closed in March 2020 was it? Alas, it now doesn't seem likely to return.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Gorton on the West Highland Line is also still a token exchange point and engineering siding however I don't believe anything has stopped there for a number of years.

Aren't train operations along the West Highland Line, including the section through Gorton (Tayside), operated using RETB these days?

 

[Royston Vasey]

Part of the platform of Oakham station was acquired to create Carriages of Cambridge, a high end tea room in various Mk 1 Pullman coaches, and now a former Brighton Belle vehicle, in Fen Drayton, Cambs. It has a station building which is a recreation, something of a pastiche, and a signal box which I've seen described as "1880s" and is fitted out but I think that might also be a recreation.

Only tenuously "rail use" but it is still used as a platform for railway carriages.

 

[Bill57p9]

Aren't train operations along the West Highland Line, including the section through Gorton (Tayside), operated using RETB these days?

Indeed: Gorton remains a TEP-i in RETB, similar to Corrour in that a long section RETB can be issued meaning the train doesn’t have to stop.

Reference: http://www.scot-rail.co.uk/page/RETB+Banavie+North


Would Lydd station meet the OP’s criteria? Still used to support a run-round loop, though somewhat less useful following the fire.