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Trivia: Stations where every platform face is on the same side.

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mallaig

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What stations currently have a layout where every platform face is on the same side?

I can only think of the following three off the top of my head:

• Denham
• Harringay
• Hornsey

Are there any others like this anywhere in the UK that anyone on here can think of?

Obviously stations that only have one platform do not count.

Many thanks.
 
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If you discount platform 2 which has no booked calls, both active platforms at Mirfield face towards the canal which is north of the railway.
 

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I'm not quite sure what the OP means but given the examples is Retford (the ECML platforms) an example?
 

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Hatfield is in a similar situation, platform 2 is unused, and platform 1 and 3 have the platform on the east side of the track.

Likewise West Byfleet as I think the random booked call for platform 2 in the evening peak went in May
 

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Not Network Rail, but Buchanan Street, Ibrox and Hillhead on the Glasgow Subway. All were island platforms but 1 additional side platform was added in the early 80s rebuild with the unused island face being fenced off in the 2000s
 

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Ormskirk and Kirkby. Identical layout of two lines meeting head-on, separated by buffer stops. So although from a pedestrian point of view there is one continuous platform, really there are two.
 

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Before Platform 4 was reopened in the 1980's Platforms 1 & 2 were on the same side at Gloucester. Is that what you mean?
 

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Stamford Brook on the District line - the Piccadilly WB platform is not used and there is no Picc EB platform.

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Liverpool James St, given platform 2 is disused.

Though by the time trains have gone around the loop, the doors on the opposite side of the train open on the second stop from the doors that opened at the first stop.
 

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Though by the time trains have gone around the loop, the doors on the opposite side of the train open on the second stop from the doors that opened at the first stop.

Ooh, the Möbius Line!
 

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NR services at Amersham only ever use Platforms 1 and 3, both of which are on the north side. Only Metropolitan line trains ever use Platform 2, which is on the South side.
 

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Aren’t these cases where the platforms are on explicitly opposite sides rather than the same side?

The same side is the default case, no? That for a two track line in both directions the platform is on the right for an island or both on the left for platforms on the outside of the lines?
 
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