Network Rail managed stations

[sprunt]

A couple of questions that have come to mind after reading suggestions in the Manchester Victoria lifts thread that the station should be managed by Network Rail.

1) What is the smallest station managed by Network Rail?

2) What is the largest station not managed by Network Rail?

For the sake of argument, you can take smallest/largest to be by number of platforms, though I'd be interested to read answers by other measures.

 

[yorkie]

https://www.networkrail.co.uk/communities/passengers/our-stations/
There's only 20 of them so shouldn't be too hard to work out

1. Birmingham New Street
2. Bristol Temple Meads
3. Edinburgh Waverley
4. Glasgow Central
5. Guildford
6. Leeds
7. Liverpool Lime Street
8. Manchester Piccadilly
9. Reading
10. London Cannon Street
11. London Charing Cross
12. Clapham Junction
13. London Euston
14. London King’s Cross
15. London Bridge
16. London Liverpool Street
17. London Paddington
18. London St Pancras Int
19. London Victoria
20. London Waterloo

Charing Cross only has 6 platforms so is probably the "smallest" by that measure.

 

[pdeaves]

London Waterloo and/or Clapham Junction could well constitute 'largest' by some measure or another.

NR also manages Ebbsfleet and Stratford International on behalf of HS1. NR used to operate Gatwick Airport and London Fenchurch St but these have since passed to TOCs to look after.

 

[naverag]

Of those 20 Guildford is the smallest in terms of passenger numbers, followed by Bristol Temple Meads and then Reading. Though Ebbsfleet International and Stratford International are much smaller.

 

[Djgr]

Of those 20 Guildford is the smallest in terms of passenger numbers, followed by Bristol Temple Meads and then Reading. Though Ebbsfleet International and Stratford International are much smaller.

So has anyone worked out yet why Guildford is in this list?

 

[pdeaves]

So has anyone worked out yet why Guildford is in this list?

It's to do with massive redevelopment of the area on railway land.

 

[J-2739]

In terms of passenger numbers, Stratford must be up the ranks in terms of largest station not managed by Network Rail.

 

[Djgr]

It's to do with massive redevelopment of the area on railway land.

Has it always been Network Rail or was it transferred across in recent years?

 

[pdeaves]

Has it always been Network Rail or was it transferred across in recent years?

NR control since 1 April 2018 (also for Clapham Junction, for similar reasons).

 

[Mikey C]

Why are Charing Cross and Cannon Street, both single operator termini, managed by Network Rail when Marylebone and Fenchurch Street aren't?

 

[sga962]

As it's technically a seperate station I'd say St Pancras Low-Level is the smallest

 

[greyman42]

https://www.networkrail.co.uk/communities/passengers/our-stations/
There's only 20 of them so shouldn't be too hard to work out


Charing Cross only has 6 platforms so is probably the "smallest" by that measure.

I thought York had gone over to Network Rail?

 

[ElectroSoldier]

I thought Network rail operated stations which are strategically important stations regardless of its size.
As in its not because its large thats its managed by them, its its importance in their stratergy of moving people around.

 

[WatcherZero]

They more recently decided that if theres a major redevelopment where they are putting in hundreds of millions on redevelopment they will take them over so that they get more of the financial return from increased rents.

 

[pdeaves]

they will take them over so that they get more of the financial return from increased rents.

It also simplifies the construction process a bit by simultaneously running the station and managing the building works.

 

[yorkie]

I thought York had gone over to Network Rail?

I see no evidence of this at all! I use the station regularly. It's definitely managed by LNER.

 

[swt_passenger]

I see no evidence of this at all! I use the station regularly. It's definitely managed by LNER.

I think Newcastle was also mentioned in the same context a few years ago, but it seems as if nothing happened with that either?

 

[yorkie]

Last time I was at Newcastle it very much looked like an LNER station to me.

I think I recall some idea to change them to NR but it never happened. It may have been a few years ago now

 

[pdeaves]

I see no evidence of this at all! I use the station regularly. It's definitely managed by LNER.

York and Newcastle were supposed to transfer to NR but they haven't yet. Both stations are exempt from certain licencing conditions for the TOC, presumably in readiness for a transfer at some undetermined time in the future.

 

[swt_passenger]

York and Newcastle were supposed to transfer to NR but they haven't yet. Both stations are exempt from certain licencing conditions for the TOC, presumably in readiness for a transfer at some undetermined time in the future.

Did a bit more digging, and found that it was the 2009 “better stations” report that proposed that NR should manage all 25 category A stations, (national hubs) which would have brought York, Newcastle and around 5 other stations under NR management...

 

[pdeaves]

Did a bit more digging, and found that it was the 2009 “better stations” report that proposed that NR should manage all 25 category A stations, (national hubs) which would have brought York, Newcastle and around 5 other stations under NR management...

Maybe that's the reason the East Coast ones are now enshrined in the franchise spec.