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Trivia: Which station has the curviest platform?

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DanNCL

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Interesting to see that the 150 is cleared to South Hylton - have any ever run up there?

Regarding the 950, could it be that is doesn't have door plates/sills that could foul something?
I don't think a 150 has, but the 950 has ran to South Hylton at least once. There are a couple of photos on flickr of it on the South Hylton line.
 
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This thread is throwing up some beautiful photographs! Thanks to the people posting them - especially some of the photos from decades past.

Where are the photos below of?
When I opened the photos, my the tabs on chrome where called "folkestone harbour" and "sudbury" respectively.
 

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This thread is throwing up some beautiful photographs! Thanks to the people posting them - especially some of the photos from decades past.

Where are the photos below of?

When I opened the photos, my the tabs on chrome where called "folkestone harbour" and "sudbury" respectively.

Correct.
Folkestone Harbour with the 08:15 London Bridge to Newhaven Marine Excursion on the 19/03/1994.
Sudbury with the 13:35 Sudbury to Colchester on the 07/04/1984.

Most of the others are from my collection of all the stations that I visited during the BR era. Earlestown, Shipley, Grosmont and Dinting are more recent as is Mullingar (Dublin Connolly to Dublin Connolly Railtour 03/10/2010)
 
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Limehouse (Essex Bound)
Stratford (Stansted Bound)
Lewisham (Hither green bound)
On the underground, the Bakerloo line platforms at Waterloo are definitely more bendy than at Bank.
 

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On the underground, the Bakerloo line platforms at Waterloo are definitely more bendy than at Bank.

Yes, Lewisham.. definitely a case of mind the gap.
As mentioned before Earlestown springs to mind
 

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Dalmarnock? The station is done up now so it looks NOTHING like this anymore.
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Shipley p5 is quite a curve, so much so there is a marked location for the guard to despatch from under the Off indicators against the station wall - it is about the only place where there is a chance to see all 4 coaches at once.

Platform 5 (and the disused platform face opposite) at Shipley used to be an even more severe curve, but it was straightened out (to an extent) when the line was electrified. I remember reading somewhere (and I don't know if this is urban myth or not) that when it used to be double-track you couldn't have trains pass there because of the clearance.
 

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The platforms (country end) of Hull station are sharply curved, although few trains are long enough to now stop there.
 

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St Denys platforms on the Southampton-Fareham branch are sharply curved enough that 153s are banned due to being out of gauge on the solebar step boards.
 

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The station code for Berry Brow is BBW.
This can also be used to describe a lady of generous proportion, i.e. "curvy".

Didn't even take my coat off... :oops:
Thanks. Though I have never heard of that one before, I think I have worked out the abbreviation.
 

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On the Underground the Bakerloo line at Waterloo has a sharp curve - resulting in a very large gap.
 
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Wivenhoe doesn't look like it would quite win, but it is very curved with some scary gaps, and with 12 coach trains during the peak, it usually has a station dispatcher even with a guard on the train
 

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Hartlepool and Newcastle both have very tight corners (iirc 150s can't call at Hartlepool because of how large the gap would be between the doors and the platform)
I boarded a HST at Newcastle P3 recently and noticed a very large gap.
 
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