Morgsie
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For the past few years platforms 1 and 4 at Bournemouth have been out of action.
4's been OOU since the Southern services ended in 2004 IIRC.
Do you mind me asking what the point of this thread is? Are you wondering why, when etc?
Platform 4 is already used by a couple of down trains every evening. It seems to me it gets used as much as needed, it definitely isn't out of use as proposed by the original post.
Do you know which ones? Wouldn't mind seeing that and if it's not too far off when I'm usually passing through could hang around for a bit.
The 1842 ex-Southampton Central and 1910 to Poole are the only ones I can see booked for this evening.
Edit - AFAICS those two are the only ones booked at any time Monday-Friday.
Can a 4 car Class 450 Desiro go into Platform 1?
Back in the day when Slam door trains were in operation, Connex ran a slam door service from Platform 1 to London
A VEP or CIG was near enough 20 m, and one would fit just nicely into the bay, while a 450 is 21 m, and a 220 is +/- 23.6 m. So I doubt whether you could fit either in.
Can a 4 car Class 450 Desiro go into Platform 1?
Mark 1 body length is apparently ~19.5m for the longer chassis one.
So yeah, I imagine a four carriage-desiro would be afoul the points at the end of the bay.
Unfortunately I can't see the bay in its entirity on aerial photography (google earth) because there is apparently a canopy over it, so can anyone tell me what is "behind" the bay?
ie. Would extending it at a few metres be out of the question?
Mark 1 body length is apparently ~19.5m for the longer chassis one.
So yeah, I imagine a four carriage-desiro would be afoul the points at the end of the bay.
Unfortunately I can't see the bay in its entirity on aerial photography (google earth) because there is apparently a canopy over it, so can anyone tell me what is "behind" the bay?
ie. Would extending it at a few metres be out of the question?
I've also heard that the bays (one of them at least) is too short for the majority of stock now on the line. Certainly no good for Voyagers anyway AFAIK
Can a 4 car Class 450 Desiro go into Platform 1?
Yes, they can. The evening-peak terminator from Southampton Central (split from a service ex-Waterloo possibly) a few years back used to use Platform 1. It was formed of a 450 and I have used it.
... and I posted earlier that SWT train crew documentation says that 450s can definitely use it.
185s are a few years younger than Voyagers, and Turbostars are round about the same age (The oldest 170s are a couple of years older than 220s, but construction was staggered over a number of years). I would certainly say that the 185s are pretty new trains, but anyway, I digress; back to bay platform considerations.I deemed 170/185 as "older stock" Well they're newish I guess...
Where does Bournemouth not have connections to yet where it would benefit from?