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Trivia: stations where the only route between platforms is via a level crossing only

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Scotrail84

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Kingsknowe and Kirknewton stations on the Edinburgh to Glasgow Central via Shotts or Carstairs services.


Broughty Ferry as well?

Must be a rake of stations on the WHL and the Far North Lines too?
 

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Kingsknowe and Kirknewton stations on the Edinburgh to Glasgow Central via Shotts or Carstairs services.


Broughty Ferry as well?

Must be a rake of stations on the WHL and the Far North Lines too?
Not very many actually. A lot of WHL stations are island, others have footbridges, and the rest are on the single tracks so only have 1 platform.

The only two I can think of are Rogart and Forsinard, but I haven't got out at either so I may have missed something.
 
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There is a subway under the railway next to the crossing at smithy bridge.
Yes there is a subway. Years ago there was also a subway under the road as the platforms were originally staggered either side of the level crossing and the ticket office was on the Manchester-bound platform.
 

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Cononley - a Penalty Fare station with a ticket machine on one platform only. Do any of the others mentioned above have the same issue? Maybe the OP could also have asked "has anyone ever been unable to buy a ticket because of the barriers being down for an extended period?" As mentioned already, such a set up was a contributing factor in the Elsenham crossing accident.

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Isn't there a subway at Starbeck?
Yes, I think this was raised when penalty fares were introduced on the Aire Valley line - five passenger trains an hour each way at Cononley plus freight, and the village is on the wrong side of the line if you are heading for Leeds or Bradford.
 
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Not sure if we've had this one before.

I'll start off with three very dfferent examples
Navigation Road (two single lines)
Carlton (Notts)
Chathill

Has anyone missed a train because of the barriers being down for an extended period?
Moreton (Dorset).
 

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Not very many actually. A lot of WHL stations are island, others have footbridges, and the rest are on the single tracks so only have 1 platform.

The only two I can think of are Rogart and Forsinard, but I haven't got out at either so I may have missed something.

Dalmelly & Taynuilt are barrow crossings for the Oban branch (everything else is single track)
Tulloch, Corrour*, Glenfinnan & Arisaig are also barrow crossings (all be the track which is crossed at Corrour isn't used) For the Mallaig branch

Far North the only ones I can think off are the two you mentioned with level crossings, all the other passing points have footbridges
Kyle Line is similar, IIRC all the stations which are passing points have footbridges
 

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Smithy bridge- Near Rochdale. You are able to board a train to Rochdale if the barrier is down, But not to Manchester if your coming up the hill.
Smithy Bridge has a pedestrian underpass on the far side of the road from the station. Not wheelchair accessible though.

Edit, beaten to it.
 

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Roydon.

Infamously, both platforms are BEFORE the level crossing on their respective sides, increasing the barrier-down time.

The village is on the London-bound side and the car park is on the Cambridge-bound side.

The ticketing used to be on the London side, so that meant if you were driving to the station (e.g. from its furthest extremities or with heavy luggage) you had to drive across the level crossing, park, walk back across the level crossing, buy your ticket, and then, if going towards Cambridge, walk back across AGAIN to the other side. All with the barriers going up and down frequently. Was always safest to leave 20 mins for London or 30 for Cambridge.

I believe nowadays, since the ticket office was shut, there are TVMs both sides... however I remember reading something that at first there was only one on the Cambridge side, forcing even London-bound foot-commuters to cross the level crossing twice in the morning rush-hour!

I'm not sure if that ever got resolved, as <rant>I've not used the station ever since they skip-stopped the hourly xx:13 express on me despite (a) having already cancelled the preceding and following xx:30s stoppers and (b) the NRE website indicating it was running on time (unlike the xx:30s which it knew about), thus ruining a planned day-trip out with a wheelchair-bound friend.</rant>

Back in the 70s, when it was Elsenham-style swing gates, there were separate wicket gates which a friendly signalman might unlock for you. Once he even cleared it with a stationary Cambridge-bound driver for me to nip across and catch it!... actually that might have been in the 80s with the first set of barriers (single full-width both sides) which still had the separate gates, albeit then in metal. Gone now though, with the double half-width both sides. (Apologies: I know there are correct sets of initials for the various types, but the subtle distinctions have tended to elude me and I don't want to end up using the wrong ones.)
 
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Smithy Bridge has a pedestrian underpass on the far side of the road from the station. Not wheelchair accessible though.

Edit, beaten to it.
I have never noticed that, Though I have only approached the station once or twice in that direction. I usually come down the hill from the lake.
 

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On the West Anglia:
Shelford
Roydon
Brimsdown (as mentioned)
 
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