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Trivia: Which stations have numbered platforms which are unserved?

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Mirfield platform 2
York platform 2 (the bay which only serves the Scarborough line) or do the TPE Saturday extras go from there?
Until recently Marsden platform 2

There must be others.
 
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geoffk said:
Mirfield platform 2
York platform 2 (the bay which only serves the Scarborough line) or do the TPE Saturday extras go from there?
Until recently Marsden platform 2

There must be others.
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Platform 7 at Preston
 
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Bristol Temple Meads platform 2. Its not signalled for passenger use and until recently had a departure screen that only ever said platform not in use.
 
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Temple Meads platform 14. Yes, I know it's cheating as 'platform 14' is the name given to some office space in the old terminus building so it's not an actual platform but is called a platform. :)
 
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geoffk said:
York platform 2 (the bay which only serves the Scarborough line) or do the TPE Saturday extras go from there?
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I have used platform 2 at York, and it was indeed one of the additional summer Saturday services from York to Scarborough.
 
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Haymarket platform 0.

Only used to terminate services short and start en route during disruption - unless that's cheating.

Otherwise used for empty stock moves.
 
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My understanding is that platform 2 at liverpool james street is only used by passenger trains during engineering works.
 
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Platform nine and three-quarters at King's Cross.

(Sorry!)
 
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Guildford has platforms 6 and 7 on opposite sides of the same single line, but I believe that train doors are not opened on platform 7.
 
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Unless TfL have explicitly un-numbered the Main Line platforms then most of the stations between Liverpool Street and Shenfield during normal service.
 
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Platform 7 Norwood Junction (it even has no track!)
Also the FL platforms (3 & 4) at New Cross Gate since the 2018 TT change
 
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pdeaves said:
Temple Meads platform 14. Yes, I know it's cheating as 'platform 14' is the name given to some office space in the old terminus building so it's not an actual platform but is called a platform. :)
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If that counts then how about platform 5 at Cheadle Hulme? <D

More sensibly, platform 1 at Hooton only seems to be used during engineering works.
 
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Derby P7?
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Yes. The normal timetable has no passenger services on Platform 7 even though it retains announcements and screens. I believe recently a London to Sheffield service used the platform and the end of EMT HST charter.
 
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1and 2 at Twickenham, iirc, only used for rugby specials and now both closed as the trackbed used as a construction depot.

I do remember as a child seeing the Flying Scotsman on platform 2 prior to its (her?) US tour in 196x - there's footage ( not me, alas) on YouTube
 
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Morgsie said:
Bournemouth platform 1?
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It’s recently gained a single booked passenger service according to the CWN’s, 2B91 from Winchester, and three ECS moves, two being an overnight 450 berthing. (Expected to be used by the hourly Portsmouth stoppers if they ever happen.)
 
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pdeaves said:
Temple Meads platform 14. Yes, I know it's cheating as 'platform 14' is the name given to some office space in the old terminus building so it's not an actual platform but is called a platform. :)
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On a similar note, Platform 3 at Dewsbury is actually the stage in the beer garden of the West Riding inn. I don't think the band Train have ever played there, unfortunately*.

*=it's only unfortunate from a pun point-of-view, as they're about as interesting as a discussion about the voice-actors who do PIS work! ;)
 
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North end bays at Stirling I think. South ones were also barely used until the last resignalling
 
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Interesting comments about Bristol TM, a regular haunt of mine in the late 50s/60s. The platforms were renumbered in reverse order after resignalling in 1970 but I still remember them how they were. Platforms in the Brunel terminus were 12 to 14, with scissors crossovers dividing each long platform in two.
 
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nr758123 said:
There was one mid-afternoon train which used platform 2.

It appears that from December 2019 there will be no trains from platform 3. So the only ticket machine on the station will be on the unused platform.
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And of course platform 3 is the only one with level access!
 
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