Has any station in recent times been built without having trains calling at it?

LNW-GW Joint · 17 Jan 2019

There was a period when hardly anything electric ran between Wolverhampton and Stafford.
XC/VT had become Voyagers, and Central went from 323 to 170 when Liverpool-Birmingham became Liverpool-Birmingham-Stansted and was diesel-worked.
So for several years Penkridge hardly has any electric trains (there was some freight and the odd VT 390 service passing through) until the 350s started.
Carstairs-Edinburgh was rather similar after Voyagers came in, but the sleepers and East Coast services stayed electric.
The local services on Crewe-Kidsgrove remained DMU-only (Crewe-Derby) during the initial WCRM electric diversions, until the 350s began a Crewe-Stoke-London service.

Waterloo International saw no trains for several years after Eurostar left for St Pancras, until recently (it's still not fully used).

The GOBLIN is still waiting for its local electric trains (some freight is using the OHLE).

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Old Yard Dog · 17 Jan 2019

While it doesn't quite fit the definition of a station in the original post, Ellesmere Port did have an east-facing bay platform built in the 1980s. This never even had track, let alone a train.

53703 · 18 Jan 2019

Haven't some recently opened stations in West Yorkshire had trains timetabled to stop at them but couldn't because the stations weren't finished?

xotGD · 18 Jan 2019

According to Wikipedia, only 4 trains ever called at Ramsline Halt.

How many cranks got in in the book?

Joseph_Locke · 19 Jan 2019

Llama said:
Virgin had a couple of ECS via Newton-le-Willows before any of the rest of the Chat Moss lines were electrified.

It was also a common diversion when Winwick Cutting was shut

Andrew Nelson · 19 Jan 2019

Kite159 said:
Probably also Deansgate?

Apart from all the services to Altrincham before the conversion to Metrolink?

Andrew Nelson · 19 Jan 2019

alangla said:
Deansgate had Altrincham trains pre-Metrolink, then terminators that turned near Manchester United, plus the match day services to Manchester United

Early services from the Airport with the old "Slam Door" stock.

Andrew Nelson · 19 Jan 2019

londonmidland said:
Looking at the maps, it there's an electrified loop between Warrington Bank Quay and Wigan North Western, diverging off the WCML north of Warrington and going through Earlestown and Newton-le-Williows, before rejoining back onto the WCML south of Wigan.

What's unusual is that the small section of the original BR electrification remains intact and in use by the newer electrification for the Liverpool - Manchester Victoria 319 services though before these were introduced, I assume nothing electric used the wires through Earlestown and Newton-le-Willows?

It was for the Postal Services.

thenorthern · 20 Jan 2019

North End on the London Underground was completed in the early 1900s but it never opened.

Llama · 20 Jan 2019

James Heck said:
It was for the Postal Services.

Are you sure that's right?

Andrew Nelson · 21 Jan 2019

Llama said:
Are you sure that's right?

Yes, I know a chap who worked on them.

Llama · 21 Jan 2019

Are you not thinking of Dallam Royal Mail Terminal instead?

Andrew Nelson · 22 Jan 2019

Llama said:
Are you not thinking of Dallam Royal Mail Terminal instead?

No.

That's what replaced the practice in many cases.

Llama · 22 Jan 2019

Any more details as to what was loaded, where and when? I am not convinced that the lines through Earlestown, Newton and Lowton were electrified for one type of traffic.

Andrew Nelson · 22 Jan 2019

Llama said:
Any more details as to what was loaded, where and when? I am not convinced that the lines through Earlestown, Newton and Lowton were electrified for one type of traffic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton-le-Willows_railway_station

The line through the station was electrified by British Rail in 1973 as part of the West Coast Main Line electrification scheme, and the station was served by electrically hauled mail trains, but no regularly scheduled electric passenger trains called here.

Francis · 22 Jan 2019

Kite159 said:
And Newton-Le-Willows.

Probably also Deansgate?

The 07.00 Wigan North Western to Lime St 2F17 is scheduled as a Class 319 emu. It runs via and calls at Newton-le-Willows, Earlestown and all shacks to Lime St.

DPWH · 22 Jan 2019

xotGD said:
According to Wikipedia, only 4 trains ever called at Ramsline Halt.

How many cranks got in in the book?

OK, so which 4?

8A Rail · 22 Jan 2019

Kite159 said:
Excluding stations which are under recently installed wires but not yet running EMUs in passenger service
West Allerton
Mossley Hill

No need for EMU's to stop there as both stations served by DMU on the Lime St to Warrington Central service via the CLC.

londonmidland said:
Looking at the maps, it there's an electrified loop between Warrington Bank Quay and Wigan North Western, diverging off the WCML north of Warrington and going through Earlestown and Newton-le-Williows, before rejoining back onto the WCML south of Wigan.

What's unusual is that the small section of the original BR electrification remains intact and in use by the newer electrification for the Liverpool - Manchester Victoria 319 services though before these were introduced, I assume nothing electric used the wires through Earlestown and Newton-le-Willows?

That section of line has been used for electric diversions to and from WCML over the years for both passenger and freight. Normally if engineering work (or other reasons) being carried out between Golborne Junction and Winwick Junction.

Kite159 · 22 Jan 2019

8A Rail said:
No need for EMU's to stop there as both stations served by DMU on the Lime St to Warrington Central service via the CLC.

Although in an ideal world (where finding paths isn't an issue) Northern would introduce a new EMU service from Lime Street to South Parkway every 15 minutes calling at all 3 intermediate stations, allowing the DMUs via the CLC to run fast from South Parkway to Lime Street.

Francis said:
The 07.00 Wigan North Western to Lime St 2F17 is scheduled as a Class 319 emu. It runs via and calls at Newton-le-Willows, Earlestown and all shacks to Lime St.

But before the rest of the Chat Moss line was wired up Newton-le-Willows (and Earlestown) were under wires but not served by any passenger EMUs, now the wires run all the way from Liverpool to Manchester it sees EMUs. I put a question mark over Deansgate because I couldn't remember if those peak time services started there (or the match day specials to Man Utd called), again in the period after Metrolink and before Chat Moss got wired.

matt_world2004 · 22 Jan 2019

IIRC Shepherds Bush Overground was built with silver link in mind complete with silverlink branding only to have silverlink never call there.

Malcolmffc · 23 Jan 2019

A part-example is Chessington South, where the northbound platform has never been used. This may finally change if Crossrail 2 ever happens.

HaggisBotherer · 23 Jan 2019

thenorthern said:
North End on the London Underground was completed in the early 1900s but it never opened.

According to Wackopedia... "Works on the station were ended in 1906 before the lift shafts were dug and before any work on a surface building was done... The uncompleted platforms and lower passageways remain, with access to the tracks." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_End_tube_station

vlad · 24 Jan 2019

That's put me in mind of Admiralteyskaya on line 5 of St Petersburg metro. The platforms were built along with the rest of the line in the late 1990s but the station didn't open until 2011 due to arguments about access to the surface.

It was originally planned for the station to interchange with line 3 but I don't see this being completed any time soon.

Has any station in recent times been built without having trains calling at it?

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