Trivia: Stations on our railway network which are closed but the platforms still exist.

[duffield]

Culloden
Tomatin
Mulben
Errol
Perth Princes Street
Duddingston
Morningside Road
Craiglockhart
Rutherglen (main line)
Wishaw South
Thornhill
Holywood
IBM
...are the ones I can think of in Scotland, in addition to Eglinton Street and Partickhill mentioned above. There may be a few more besides.

<pendantry>IBM doesn't count - the thread title is *closed* stations. IBM has not gone through the formal closure process and the service is merely suspended until an unspecified future date.

 

[RichJF]

Cowden northbound original platform
Earlswood fast line platforms

 

[urbophile]

St James (not to be confused with James St) on Merseyrail's Northern Line. It was closed over 100 years ago but the platforms are still in situ though much overgrown. I think the track has been realigned since then so if the station is reopened (as fervently hoped by many) they would probably have to be completely rebuilt.

 

[adrock1976]

The platforms aren't there at Glasgow Cross, the bricked up staircases end in mid air.

Many thanks for that mention.

Somebody I know who once worked for the former Strathclyde Regional Council many moons ago saw the plans for the eastern flank of the motorway box that was mentioned in the Bruce Report. The drawings had shown that the former platform at Glasgow Cross would be used for the pillars to support the elevated motorway above.

As the eastern flank of the motorway box would have meant demolition of the buildings from the Provand's Lordship (believed to be the oldest house in Glasgow) down the High Street to the Tollbooth Steeple at the Cross, needless to say this section of the motorway box was never built. The western flank from Tradeston (link to the Renfrewshire Motorway) to St Georges Cross was built (which enabled the former slum buildings in Anderston to be demolished), as was the northern flank from St Georges Cross to Townhead to link with the Monkland Motorway. The southern flank would have ran from the vicinity of Gorbals to Tradeston, which would have had the present day M74 from Carmyle cutting across Glasgow Green (the Winter Gardens and Peoples' Palace were in the way) linking up with the box at Gorbals. Although the southern flank was eventually constructed, this was on a further southerly alignment passing through Rutherglen, Eglinton Toll, and linking with the M8 west of the Kingston Bridge.

 

[Harpers Tate]

Down Street (Picc.)
Brocklesby (Lincs)
and (freight trains only) Maltby SY.

 

[westralian]

Rutherglen (main line)

Not for too much longer, work has commenced on removing it.

 

[nuneatonmark]

Coton just north of the new Bermuda Park station on the Nuneaton to Coventry line. Not sure if the platform is still there for Foleshill.

 

[Ben.A.98]

Kinloss
Allanfearn

 

[Highlandspring]

Gartly
Kennethmont

 

[Bevan Price]

Lowton Junction, between Parkside & Golborne Jn
Remains of the rather low platforms still exist, although largely covered by vegetation.

 

[Quakers Yard]

Aberthaw.
Cogan junction.
On freight line Trelewis Halt, Bedlinog and to an extent Cwmbargoed and Nelson-Llancaiach.

 

[alistairlees]

Does Spa Road (there are some remnants of one of the platforms) count? And, if so, is it the one that wins the prize for closed longest (in 1915 apparently)?

 

[vlad]

Greatham, on the Durham coast.

Ramsline in Derby, even though the track adjacent has been removed.

 

[NorthernSpirit]

The ones that I know of are:

• Limpley Stoke (between Freshford and Bath Spa).
• Elsham (between Scunthorpe and Habrough).
• Brocklesby (again between Scunny and Habrough).
• Goldsborough (between Harrogate and Knarsborough)
• Burton Agnes (between Driffield and Bridlington)
• Cargo Fleet (between Middlesbrough and Saltburn, no idea if the platforms are still there though as the last time I passed through was in 2014).

 

[SteveyBee131]

Rotherham Masbrough, closed in 1983 when Central opened.

 

[SJDCornwall]

Wilton South up platform,
Dinton up platform
Semley both platforms
Milbourne Port both platforms
Sutton Bingham up platform
Chard Junction up platform
All of these on the Salisbury Exeter Railway. All closed 6th March 1966.

 

[Mag_seven]

Filton.

 

[Andrew1395]

Watford Stadium Halt, Watford West and (Croxley?) platforms still there.

 

[PeterC]

Is the platform still in place at Bow Road (GER)?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

I've thought of another one - doesn't at least one platform from the original Partick station still exist?

 

[Highlandspring]

Both platforms at Partickhill survive, already mentioned in this thread.

 

[evotista]

Chislet colliery halt ... near Sturry on the Ramsgate to Ashford line

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Watford Stadium Halt, Watford West and (Croxley?) platforms still there.

Doesn't meet the OP's criteria, as no trains pass those platforms.

 

[Mutant Lemming]

Beeston Castle & Tarporley , Osterley,

 

[MadMac]

Dundee Esplanade?

 

[billh]

Mottram Staff Halt, with lamp posts?
Diggle, still got the water tank for troughs?

 

[153375]

Coundon Road on the Coventry - Nuneaton line

 

[Kryten2340]

Monkwearmouth

 

[Flyingsprinter]

Are they still any remnants of Manchester exchanges platforms?

 

[GusB]

I think Alves still has at least one platform. It has been a while since I was out that way, but I remember Orbliston Junction still had as well. I remember seeing that it still had a nameboard when I was a kid, although it maybe long gone.