Stations with one platform only

[Mojo]

Aylesbury Vale Parkway

 

[Turbostar]

Looe, Cornwall

 

[wintonian]

Yetmister
Chetnole
Thornford

 

[aspierail]

Whitby

 

[Ibex]

Sheringham (If it hasn't already been said).

 

[2030720310]

Islip?

 

[aspierail]

Little Kimble

 

[scrapy]

Dore and Totley
Navigation Rd (NR)
Wrexham Central

 

[transportphoto]

Sheringham (If it hasn't already been said).

Sorry I said it in my post on page 1 (no 2) .



Sorry Again - Correct Though

Stourbridge Town
Sheringham NR
Cromer

 

[aspierail]

Corby

 

[SteamontheMet]

Mill Hill East ( London Underground Northern Line)
Chesham (London Underground Metropolitan Line, Technically has two but only one used with the other overgrown with Vegetation)

 

[First class]

Ormskirk
Kirkby

They've both got effectively one long platform...

Liverpool L Street (Low Level) [LVL] just has the one platform, in one direction only.

 

[142094]

Would Kirkby and Ormskirk count as two seperate platforms? Both are shown as having a platform 1 and two on National Rail.

 

[aspierail]

Sudbury (Suffolk)

 

[ChrisCooper]

Syston

 

[HSTfan!!!]

Coryton
Pretty much everything between Bargoed (excluding Bargoed) and Rhymney

 

[aspierail]

Pershore

 

[TheWalrus]

Frome
Hanborough
Finstock
Charlbury
Ascott
Pershore
Bicester Town
Colwall
Caersws
Gowerton
Milford Haven
Narberth-Pembroke Dock
Broome-Llanelli (not including Llanelli and Knighton etc.)
Falmouth Stations and other stations on the branch

Hope that covers it!

 

[Zamracene749]

Dunbar. Gotta be the only single platform through station on a high speed twin track main line?

 

[aspierail]

Bures

 

[Drimnagh Road]

Limerick Junction is the same. One long platform with a crossover in the middle to allow Dublin bound trains to use the north end, and Cork bound trains to use the south. This relatively sensible arrangement is quite recent; for most of the station's existence there were buffers at the platform ends, and a Dublin bound train had to come along the running line parallel to the north end of the platform, then set back into the siding alongside the south end! The only trains able to arrive or depart without reversing were trains to Limerick, which leave from a north facing bay platform.

Even today, Waterford bound trains leave from a south-facing bay platform, seeming to point towards Cork, but in reality just leading into a dead end siding. They then reverse over a line around the back of the station building and up the Limerick branch for quarter of a mile or so. Then they change direction again and proceed towards Waterford, crossing the main Dublin > Cork line on the flat. Until a few years ago, these trains were loco-hauled! It really is a most eccentric arrangement, and one that amazed me the first time I saw it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8r0JbFQ-vU&feature=related

Unfortunately 4SRKT the South facing bay which the Waterford trains used to leave from is no more, totally lifted. They leave from the North facing bay now (but still have to change direction to access the Wateford line).

Also, while all of the very long single platform mains, it is no longer divided into two. Only the North end remains in use with the track at the south end severed from the scissors. A car park to be built at the south end of this platform.

With this peculiar location having been severely rationalised and with virtually no loco hauled trains (other than 201s and the dreadful mk4s), the only thing left interesting at "the Junction" these days is the few remaining semaphores, and they're going imminently.

 

[aspierail]

Gunnislake

 

[voyagerdude220]

Entwistle

[As well as being a single platform station, it's also a request stop]

 

[jopsuk]

What about Cambridge? or does this have a bay platform, I forget.

Four bay platforms two to the south, two to the north. 2&3 are 8 carriage, I think 5&6 may be too?


Other: Alloa.

 

[Mike Redding]

Maryport
Corkicle (although i get the feeling this may have been a 2 platform station at one point or another - does anyone have an history on it?

 

[aspierail]

Harwich Town

 

[43106]

Corkicle (although i get the feeling this may have been a 2 platform station at one point or another - does anyone have an history on it?

Corkickle has always been a 1-platform station. The space along the side of the line where a platform MAY fit used to be a siding, but it sloped up towards the tunnel (according to my memory of 1966!). Also, there was/is a steep slope on the east side of the station that would preclude the building of an Up platform.
Whitehaven (Bransty) is now a 1-platform station, though the lines have been lifted on 3 other platforms.
You can also add Nethertown and Braystones stations to the list.

 

[SteamontheMet]

Ormside, However now closed.

 

[Bittern]

Kildonan

 

[stuartmoss]

Silkstone Common
Dodworth
Denby Dale