That’s probably the most long winded title I’ve ever written...
This is a bit niche (and hopefully someone might rise to the challenge), but I’m trying to find a smallish station on a double track line (hopefully a Southern Region one, but anything interesting would do), that wouldn’t have had the standard steam era goods yard near the station...
In other words were there any stations that had the platforms and associated buildings in one place and perhaps the goods yard in another part of town? Or even on the other side of a short tunnel due in necessity because of the local geography?
I thought I’d come up trumps with Brentor until @Ash Bridge found me an old track plan showing that the SR station had a siding running behind the signal box.
Were there actually any stations up to the 1950s that didn’t feature some kind of goods handling facilities?
This is slightly railway modelling related, but I’ve put it in the history section as I thought it would be quite an interesting question. Thanks for taking a look at it.
This is a bit niche (and hopefully someone might rise to the challenge), but I’m trying to find a smallish station on a double track line (hopefully a Southern Region one, but anything interesting would do), that wouldn’t have had the standard steam era goods yard near the station...
In other words were there any stations that had the platforms and associated buildings in one place and perhaps the goods yard in another part of town? Or even on the other side of a short tunnel due in necessity because of the local geography?
I thought I’d come up trumps with Brentor until @Ash Bridge found me an old track plan showing that the SR station had a siding running behind the signal box.
Were there actually any stations up to the 1950s that didn’t feature some kind of goods handling facilities?
This is slightly railway modelling related, but I’ve put it in the history section as I thought it would be quite an interesting question. Thanks for taking a look at it.