Trivia: Downsized stations that are shells of their former selves?

[61058]

Lincoln Central from eight platforms to five today.

 

[MichaelTrains]

Llandudno.

Aberdeen.

How many has Llandudno lost?

 

[fairysdad]

Barnstaple has been mentioned a couple of times, but can I suggest we look down the line to Yeoford? Formerly the LSWR's junction station of the line to Plymouth and beyond, and up to Barnstaple and beyond; where the Atlantic Coast Express would split/join; only three platforms but quite an expansive goods yard (the same as Barnstaple, although the latter had much more goods facilities!). Now just one platform in use to Barnstaple, and while Okehampton trains now pass through, that's all they do as the platform for that line is still out of use.

 

[Rescars]

Once upon a time you could change trains at Loughborough Junction
There were platforms on both the Brixton and Cambria spurs.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

How many has Llandudno lost?

Two platforms? Once was five, now just three.

 

[alastair]

Barnstaple has been mentioned a couple of times, but can I suggest we look down the line to Yeoford? Formerly the LSWR's junction station of the line to Plymouth and beyond, and up to Barnstaple and beyond; where the Atlantic Coast Express would split/join; only three platforms but quite an expansive goods yard (the same as Barnstaple, although the latter had much more goods facilities!). Now just one platform in use to Barnstaple, and while Okehampton trains now pass through, that's all they do as the platform for that line is still out of use.

Interesting about Yeoford, roughly in which years did the ACE split there? In my 1961 timetable, the splitting was done at Exeter Central and none of the portions even called at Yeoford (except on Sundays).

 

[D6130]

How many has Llandudno lost?

Two platforms? Once was five, now just three.

In addition, the overall roof has been cut back to a fraction of its former length.

 

[infobleep]

I think Reading, Cambridge, Peterborough, Nuneaton, Stevenage, Leeds, Oxford soon to be Darlington all have more platforms than they did pre-Beeching.

Oxford use to have a second station and a subway connecting the two.

Hiw many platforms did Petersfield and North Camp once have?

Earlswood at 4 platforms but now only 2.

Would Queens Park, Esher and New Malden count as going from 4 platforms to 2 or are some of the platforms still classed as in use?

How many platforms did Eastbourne lose?

 

[D6130]

Hiw many platforms did Petersfield and North Camp once have?

Petersfield had four platforms....three through plus the Midhurst branch bay on the other side of the level crossing from the main station.

How many platforms did Eastbourne lose?

Eastbourne had four platforms in my day (1980s)....so has lost one.

 

[b0b]

St Pancras once had seven platforms to serve the Midland mainline. Now it only has four...

St Pancras in the 1990s would be the poster child for this thread, then it got a bit of a refurb!

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Oxford use to have a second station and a subway connecting the two.

Hiw many platforms did Petersfield and North Camp once have?

Earlswood at 4 platforms but now only 2.

Would Queens Park, Esher and New Malden count as going from 4 platforms to 2 or are some of the platforms still classed as in use?

How many platforms did Eastbourne lose?

Leeds was mentioned as one of the "opposites" to this thread, as Leeds City station gained 4* platforms in 2000. However like Oxford the city had previously lost 8 platforms in total when Leeds Central closed.

I'd say Esher has lost two platforms, as there is no access to the fast line island. New Malden still has access to the middle island, although usually locked... making it a point of opinion whether you consider those platforms "lost". They did have passenger information screens at one point, so presumably they were considered usable in extremis back then. Can't recall if there is a point of access for engineering/emergency purposes at Walton on Thames.

*= One could argue it gained 5, as platform W (now P1) was added in the late 90s ahead of the rebuild.

 

[MadMac]

Oxford use to have a second station and a subway connecting the two.

Which brings to mind Gloucester Central/Eastgate. What about Ayr, a shadow of its former self?

 

[Topological]

Pontypool Road is unrecognisable from the station as it was in the 1960s. Morfa Mawddach is also much diminished. Fishguard Harbour also.

At least the new car park will make it feel a bit better...

Definitely high on my list of answers to this thread though.

I would actually add Crewe. Though it is still busy, there is so much decay on the island that is now only platform 12 and the general layout has been simplified so much since its' heyday

 

[Spartacus]

Batley, briefly, had as many as 8 platforms, three serving the Chickenley Heath Branch alone, one platform apparently solely for traffic between Birstall and Wakefield despite one route being LNWR and the other GNR! Trains could depart in 7 different directions, although two of those took you to Wakefield via Ossett. In some of it's early days it was a triangle, though only one side had platforms at that stage. Now long reduced to two platforms, a small remnant of the bay platform for the Birstall Branch still exists, and you can see where one of the Chickenley platforms was as well if you know where to look.

 

[aliceh]

While it may not have had as many platforms as some others here, Reddish South has gone from a four platform station with multiple regular services to a single platform in use with one return journey a week

 

[birchesgreen]

Bearley used to be a junction station with brick station buildings, now a single platform with a bus shelter serving one line.

 

[mike57]

A few from my area:

Scarborough was reduced from (I think) from 9 to 5 platforms. For a seaside location a lot has survived, so certainly fails the OP test of 'a shell...'
Bridlington had 8 I think in its heyday, now down to 3 still numbered 4, 5, & 6 Further trivia thought: Is 4 the highest 'start number' for platform numbering in the UK.
Whitby (town as was) went down from 4 to 1, and is now back up to 2

 

[Trainfan2019]

At least the new car park will make it feel a bit better...

Definitely high on my list of answers to this thread though.

I would actually add Crewe. Though it is still busy, there is so much decay on the island that is now only platform 12 and the general layout has been simplified so much since its' heyday

Yes, I thought about Crewe also. How many platforms did it lose in the 1985 remodeling? Was the horse landing also a separate accessible platform for motorail?

 

[03_179]

Whitby.
Used to have 4 platforms.
Platform 3 Lost a long time ago.
Platform 4 during the 80s re-signalling
Platform 2 lost at the same time
Platform 2 reopened when NYMR ran there more regularly.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

How many platforms did Eastbourne lose?

Eastbourne had four platforms in my day (1980s)....so has lost one.

Despite the loss of Platform 4 at Eastbourne in the late 20th Century (think it was removed some time in 1991), is Eastbourne station really a "shell of its former self"?

 

[Rescars]

Ashchurch in its reopened form, is much reduced from its heyday as a junction for lines to Evesham and Upton-on-Severn and beyond.

 

[billh]

Fairfield,Manchester. 6 platforms, booking office, waiting rooms,now reduced to 2 platforms with few facilities and a sparse train service.

 

[Controller1701]

Crowhurst - Orignal layout was 2 bays, 2 12 car platforms and 2 roads down the midde.
Crowhurst - Current layout 2 8 car platforms

 

[Bradford PA]

From the late 1800s to 1965, Skipton had 6 platforms for the Ilkley services, but was reduced to 4 from 1965 and 2 from 1970 until 1993 and put back up to 4 again after that.

And Ilkley had 4, with 2 for the through Skipton services. Now just the two, shortened, terminating platforms of the original station.

It's probably in competition for that award with Bradford Exchange!

Forster Square was reduced from 6 to 2, now going back up to 4. The large goods yard adjacent gave the station site a bigger feel. Exchange/Interchange had a more severe pruning from 10 to 4 platforms with two of the remaining platforms being very short.

The triangular station at Ambergate once had 6 platforms, now reduced to just the one to and from Matlock.
By contrast, the triangle at Shipley has gone up from the original 4 to 5.

 

[Kite159]

Leeds was mentioned as one of the "opposites" to this thread, as Leeds City station gained 4* platforms in 2000. However like Oxford the city had previously lost 8 platforms in total when Leeds Central closed.

I'd say Esher has lost two platforms, as there is no access to the fast line island. New Malden still has access to the middle island, although usually locked... making it a point of opinion whether you consider those platforms "lost". They did have passenger information screens at one point, so presumably they were considered usable in extremis back then. Can't recall if there is a point of access for engineering/emergency purposes at Walton on Thames.

*= One could argue it gained 5, as platform W (now P1) was added in the late 90s ahead of the rebuild.

Esher & Walton on Thames the centre platform is classed as out of use. New Malden the centre platform is classed as 'in use for emergency only as directed by control'.

 

[Kingston Dan]

Galashiels - three platforms and a goods yard to zero and now one in a slightly different location?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Galashiels - three platforms and a goods yard to zero and now one in a slightly different location?

Not really the same station, is it? More a new station which has the same name as the previous, differently-sited, station, which closed over 55 years ago in 1969.

 

[steamybrian]

No-one has mentioned... Newmarket
Once a busy three platform station, with ticket office, refreshment room and waiting room. Large goods yard and signal box(es).
I am aware that in the past there were two other stations that served the town.

Now an unstaffed single truncated platform with a bus shelter. Just a plain single track runs through it.

 

[matchmaker]

Dalry in Ayrshire. Once a busy junction station with 4 platforms and 3 (latterly 2) signal boxes. Now an unstaffed 2 platform station with a bus shelter and a ticket machine.

 

[D6130]

Staying in Ayrshire: Barassie. Also once a busy junction station with four platforms on two different double track lines....now only two platforms on one of the double track lines and the other has been singled with no platform face remaining; plus the direct line to Prestwick - avoiding Troon - has gone.