Trivia: Stations on a junction that either have 4 platforms or 2 platforms

[Bill57p9]

Kilwinning and Paisley Gilmour Street both have 4 platforms, 2 on each of the diverging routes.

Kilmarnock has 4 platforms, but not in the OPs arrangement: 2 through (of which only one can access both routes diverging to the north) and 2 bays, which can both access both routes north.

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Dinting now has 2 platforms, one on each single track branch.

 

[D6975]

The two Worcester stations are an odd pair, both with 2 platforms in regular use, both with a junction at one end, but a far from normal arrangement of routes.

 

[Sprinter107]

Worcester Foregate Street doesn't have a junction anymore. Rainbow Hill Junction no longer exists, and hasn't for many years, and the Junction at Henwick where the two single lines go double isn't visible from the station. It's across the river.

 

[Islineclear3_1]

Thorpe-Le-Soken is a 2-platform station from where you can see the diverging junction.

 

[duffield]

Ravensthorpe - but not for much longer. Platforms on the line from Leeds to Huddersfield, just before the junction, but not on the line from Wakefield Kirkgate to Huddersfield.

Soon (well, 2028) it will move to a new site past the junction, and although the new station will still only have two platforms it just becomes another two platform station on a four track line.

 

[MadMac]

Uddingston? Two platforms with the junction signal actually on one.
Whifflet, can go either to Coatbridge Central or the R&C.
Drem?
Inverkeithing?
Carstairs?

 

[Snow1964]

Redbridge has 2 platforms (and used to have a loop behind one when the old sleeper and track depot was still open)

 

[A S Leib]

Moor Park (4 platforms; I don't know if Chiltern trains can physically use / go through the Watford line platforms but Met Rickmansworth services do in the off-peak)

 

[cadder toad]

Uddingston? Two platforms with the junction signal actually on one.
Whifflet, can go either to Coatbridge Central or the R&C.
Drem?
Inverkeithing?
Carstairs?

Coatbridge Central? - either to Whifflet or the R&C
Dalmuir- 4 platforms on two routes one platform has a fifth bay platform
Dalreoch - 2 platforms
Westerton and Port Glasgow - 2 platforms - one of the two diverging routes is single in each case
Perth?
Bridgeton -4 platforms but one of the two routes is closed. I don't know the current condition of the two platforms on the closed route
What about Springburn?- two platforms one of which has two bays only accessible from one of the diverging routes

 

[Elecman]

Salford Crescent

 

[JamesC357]

Pitsea, which has 4 platforms.

 

[Western Sunset]

Branksome - 2 platforms with junction beyond.

 

[thenorthern]

Not sure if there have been said but

2 platforms: Eaglescliffe, Hazel Grove, Craven Arms, Bidston, Morecambe, Dovey Junction (an odd one as it's after the station), Hellifield, Peartree (sort of given the Sinfin Branch no longer carries passengers), Guide Bridge, Bescot Stadium (sort of).

4 Platforms: Sunderland (sort of), Barnt Green, Severn Tunnel Junction.

 

[Flange Squeal]

Ash Vale is a station with two platforms with a junction (ahead to Woking or diverge to Ascot, although trains via either divergence can end up at London Waterloo via two very different routes) clearly visible at the London end. There is also a junction to the country end, but that is not visible from the station.

Link to a photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/paul_appleyard/51058934411/

(Link shows a photo of the station with the junction visible as a Class 450 approaches)

 

[satisnek]

Looking at my own regular travel corridor:

Worcester Shrub Hill (as previously mentioned): standard two platform double track junction (albeit with bidirectional working), although the rest of Worcester is a bit funny.

Droitwich Spa: two platform junction, although note that the platform end junction signal controls access to the goods loop, but the junction proper is visible from the platform, though.

Kidderminster might have qualified in the past (two platforms).

Smethwick West would have qualified a long time ago (ditto).

The Hawthorns: four platform junction if you count trams.

Water Orton: two-platform junction with an island platform and 'alternative' track layout.

Burton-on-Trent and Peartree (if you count freight lines ).

Derby is effectively a four platform junction with a centre pair of platforms serving both routes .

Ambergate (as was) - er... let's move on...

Rotherham Masboro: one time four platform junction.

 

[zero]

Does Glenrothes count?

 

[Springs Branch]

I don't think Lostock has been mentioned. 4 lines (2 towards Preston, 2 towards Wigan), 2 platforms on the Preston lines. Junction itself is seen from the southern end of the platforms, so fits the criteria.

Loughborough Junction ("the junction that isn't a junction" - at least as far as passenger transfers are concerned) is a similar case to Lostock.

Historically had 2+2 platforms - a pair on both diverging lines; now just 2 platforms serving one of the routes (but old platform remnants still visible on the Denmark Hill curve at LGJ last time I passed that way); junction(s) visible from the remaining platform.

Shipley has 5 platforms, being triangular. The junction for the Ilkley (Guiseley) line isn't visible from any of the platforms though.

Earlestown is another triangular station, although platform 3 on the south-to-west curve is effectively disused since the Lime St - Warrington Bank Quay stoppers got knocked on the head.

The 2 platforms on the Earlestown south-to-east chord (4 & 5) are notoriously isolated from the main station and on a very tight curve, but I'm sure you'd be able to see the junction with the Chat Moss line from the end of platform 4.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Ravensthorpe - but not for much longer. Platforms on the line from Leeds to Huddersfield, just before the junction, but not on the line from Wakefield Kirkgate to Huddersfield.

Soon (well, 2028) it will move to a new site past the junction, and although the new station will still only have two platforms it just becomes another two platform station on a four track line.

Arguably it doesn't comply with the OP's question currently, but will do after the rebuild. As the current station is only on the Leeds lines, the existence of the Wakefield lines is moot. After the rebuild the new island platform on the slow lines will become a 'junction station' as per the thread topic, as services towards both Wakefield and Leeds will be able to call.

 

[Halish Railway]

Bare Lane. One is for the route to Lancaster, the other for the direct route to Carnforth which is infrequently used.

 

[Statto]

Are we looking for a specific kind of layout here? Gloucester (for example) has four platforms and is on a junction, but not two for each route.

My thoughts too as Liverpool South Parkway has 4 platforms, but Allerton Junction is immediately South of the station, & can only be reached by 2 platforms.

 

[The exile]

Tenuous as it’s not even numbered or used, but Stechford with 3. Bristol Parkway. Kings Norton if the island was ever reopened.

Though of course the fact that Bristol Patkway now has four platforms has nothing directly to do with the junction.

 

[The Planner]

Though of course the fact that Bristol Patkway now has four platforms has nothing directly to do with the junction.

Still qualifies regardless even if it was the original two.

 

[philthetube]

Battersby, not sure if i counts as a junction though.

 

[cjw714]

If we are including tube stations then Camden Town is a perfect example of a station with 4 platforms, 2 on each branch coming from the north.

 

[Midland Man]

Shipley has 5 platforms, being triangular. The junction for the Ilkley (Guiseley) line isn't visible from any of the platforms though.

It has but the 5th wasn't televant to the discussion as there's no diverging junction either direction!

 

[xotGD]

Keighley - 4 platforms after the junction. Sort of.

Northallerton - 2 platforms before the junction.

 

[SteelWeelApeal]

Crianlarich and Dingwall.

 

[geoffk]

The one in South Yorkshire? How's that an example of a station on a junction, that has either 2 or 4 platforms?

Castle Cary is similar to Swinton, three platforms, except that the third platform (on the Yeovil line) is bi-directional.

 

[30907]

Shipley has 5 platforms, being triangular. The junction for the Ilkley (Guiseley) line isn't visible from any of the platforms though.

But the other 3 junctions are

It has but the 5th wasn't televant to the discussion as there's no diverging junction either direction!

The OP's very first example (and plenty of others quoted) has platforms beyond the divergence.

 

[AlastairFraser]

Loughborough Junction ("the junction that isn't a junction" - at least as far as passenger transfers are concerned) is a similar case to Lostock.

Historically had 2+2 platforms - a pair on both diverging lines; now just 2 platforms serving one of the routes (but old platform remnants still visible on the Denmark Hill curve at LGJ last time I passed that way); junction(s) visible from the remaining platform.

Interesting. I've never actually been!