Never having stopped off in Rochdale before, I had a look around the station today (didn't take long!) and wondered what, if anything, uses the bay platform.
Lo and behold, the train which I returned to catch, the 16.02 to Leeds arrived very late from the north and was terminated at Rochdale, in the bay. Everyone for Manchester was turfed off and the unit then formed the 16.02, departing on time.
However, this must be a quite rare occurrence, does anything normally use the bay platform at Rochdale?
Lo and behold, the train which I returned to catch, the 16.02 to Leeds arrived very late from the north and was terminated at Rochdale, in the bay. Everyone for Manchester was turfed off and the unit then formed the 16.02, departing on time.
However, this must be a quite rare occurrence, does anything normally use the bay platform at Rochdale?