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Single-track station on double-track railway?

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Not sure how the ASCII graphics below will appear, but are there any real-life examples of a double-track railway being singled just at a station (XXXXXXXX) due to physical constraints or so that passengers don't have to cross the line?

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Yeoford possibly doesn't count, but it is effectively a single platform station adjacent to "double track."
I used quotation marks because it's not really double track but two single tracks next to each other.
 
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Maryport? In that case it seems to have been done to allow an island platform to be abandoned on a lightly-used line.
 
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Chessington South ?
the second platform was never brought into use, and footbridge never built, and the continuation of the loop to Leatherhead not built
 
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Brunstane on the outskirts of Edinburgh is exactly like that. The only platform features bi-directional running for the cheapskate Waverley Line to Tweedbank. Here’s the picture I took!
 

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Loughborough on the Ivanhoe line side.

Technically it is a 3 platform station, but the trains running on the slows have to share a single platform when calling at Loughborough despite the other slow line being there.

As the next station in the Nottingham direction, East Midlands Parkway has 2 platform faces, as does Barrow-Upon-Soar in the Leicester direction
 
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Snow1964 said:
Chessington South ?
the second platform was never brought into use, and footbridge never built, and the continuation of the loop to Leatherhead not built
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It is still double track beyond the station though, even if passenger trains only use 1 platform?
 
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D869 said:
I was thinking of a modified Midford where single track becomes double at both ends of the station and platform is where second track would have been.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midford_railway_station#/media/File:Midford_Railway_Station.jpg
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Midford never had double-track to the north. A fair way beyond the platform were two sidings forming a small goods yard.

Snow1964 said:
Frome is another one, Athough the singled section is nearer 1 mile, not just at the station
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Frome is on a lengthy section of single-track that forms a separate line in the Sectional Appendix to the Main. There is a loop, but it ends well east of the station.
 
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jfowkes said:
These don't quite meet the OPs definition as the other running line is still in situ.
The Brunstane one is rather more complicated though due to Newcraighall Junction. It's not simple plainline being singled.
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Fair point.

Though, they do at least represent examples of stations on two-track lines where the effective usable line for passenger services is single track.
 
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Not a whole station, but the Thameslink platform at Wimbledon meets this description.
 
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Is Corby an example?

I also seem to remember Princes Risborough only having one platform a decade or so ago.
 
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In terms of platforms used, Hartlepool is effectively like this. Any stopping train has to use platform 2 regardless of which direction it is running in with the other through platform (3) out of use.
 
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Ian79 said:
In terms of platforms used, Hartlepool is effectively like this. Any stopping train has to use platform 2 regardless of which direction it is running in with the other through platform (3) out of use.
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I understand that the second platform is being reinstated.

Dunbar was two platforms on the main line then the down platform abandoned and then reinstated.
 
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PlatformEdgeVT said:
Navigation Road on both Manchester Metrolink and Northern Mainline Services go from Double track from both sides to a single-track station.
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Specifically the single track sections start at the former junction about 370 meters north of the station and finish just south of the level crossing to the south of the station where the formation widens out allowing the railway and metrolink to have two track each. In total it looks like about 550m of single track.
 
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Saphan Taksin station on the Bangkok Skytrain exactly meets your requirements.

Looking at it on Google satellite view there is a train across the eastern points - therefore just entering the station.
 
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Rugeley Trent Valley branch sort of. Looks like it goes 2-1 when the south junction was simplified from the wcml making the connection north of the station only.

If not mentioned Fenny Stratford.

Nearly thought Kilmaurs when BR cheaped out with a single platform on the running line, but the single track is longer each way back to double track.
 
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Bare Lane doesn't meet the requirements exactly because it has two platforms, but it's an oddity as the two lines are each a single track (up and down Morecambe plus up and down Morecambe & Heysham). The majority of trains use just the one platform, the up and down Morecambe. It must be confusing for users who are unfamiliar with the station!
 
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