Trivia: Stations where a platform has been built on the actual site of a ex running line (e.g. fom previous rationalisation/singling)

[DM352]

Looking for stations which have had a platform built on the actual site of an ex running line (e.g. from previous rationalisation/singling).

I will start with a couple but know there are more!
* Berry Brow (rebuilt on new site on the 1989 lifted down line)
* Swinton in Yorkshire (3 platform station in ex quarouple line with island on line ex slow up)

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Possibly Fort William when the old station was closed, and the new one opened in the 1975.

 

[Cricketer8for9]

Many of the ex Great Central London extension lines, particularly in the Chilterns.

 

[David Goddard]

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[Bletchleyite]

Looking for stations which have had a platform built on the actual site of an ex running line (e.g. from previous rationalisation/singling).

I will start with a couple but know there are more!
* Berry Brow (rebuilt on new site on the 1989 lifted down line)
* Swinton in Yorkshire (3 platform station in ex quarouple line with island on line ex slow up)

Shotton in both directions (I think - certainly towards Chester) - the outer lines were removed and wooden platforms built on them to serve the inner lines.

There's another one on the North Wales Coast where that was done quite recently - Abergele and Pensarn?

 

[Seanesheep]

Nottingham. Platform 5 bay used to be Platform 4 through line. The new Platform 4 is an extension outwards to use the old through freight line.

 

[Doctor Fegg]

Finstock after singling.

 

[34006]

Templecombe

 

[jfowkes]

During the Nottingham remodeling, a new platform 4 was built jutting out from the "old" platform 4, to face a running line through the station. The old platform 4 became platform 5, which is now a terminator facing west.

 

[steamybrian]

The present Uckfield station opened in 1991 was built on the alignment of the old down line.

Market Harborough station was rebuilt recently on a a new alignment.

 

[Peter C]

Finstock after singling.

Which saw a very interesting (and quite rickety-looking) platform extension when the old platform was still in use and the new one still being finished:

Finstock Station 14 September 1986

www.hondawanderer.com

-Peter

 

[superjohn]

Ely platform one was extended out over its original line to meet what was previously the through line.

Something similar happened at Kensington Olympia but a separate new platform was built over the line rather than the original being extended.

I think the Overground platform alterations at Clapham Junction also count.

 

[sem34090]

Ryde Pier Head

 

[DB]

Gilberdyke. Clearly formerly four track,with platforms by the outer lines. Now two track, with new shorter platforms built over the former outer lines. The old platfirms remain behind the current ones.

 

[6862]

Angel station if Underground stations count?

 

[AireValley]

The platforms at Crossflatts were built on the former goods lines, Apperley Bridge and Kirkstall Forge are also partially built on land where the extra two tracks were.
I think the high numbered platforms at Leeds were also built on the site of goods lines and sidings.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Some possible others...

Farringdon (when the Southbound platform was extended in 2009, effectively cutting off the Thameslink running lines to Barbican and Moorgate).

Maybe also London St. Pancras domestic opened in 2006, and Salford Crescent, opened in 1987.

 

[edwin_m]

Syston
Aylesbury Vale Parkway (I think)
Swindon
Worcestershire Parkway (I think)

 

[ANDREW_D_WEBB]

Bath Spa

 

[py_megapixel]

Angel, on the London Underground, was originally built with an island platform as at Clapham North; however the island platform was extended over one of the running lines and a new platform built to create two wider platforms rather than one narrow one.

 

[ijmad]

Almost all the platforms at London Bridge are situated over the path of a running line from before the redevelopment.

And practically every running line runs through a former platform...

For a less silly example, on the Underground, Whitechapel's middle pair of lines were paved over to make one grand island platform in 2010.

 

[Revilo]

Wimple, up platform extended to reach single line

 

[xotGD]

Newcastle platforms 5/6/7/8

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Huddersfield platform 1 (extended outwards over the former up line in the late 1980s).

Mirfield platform 3 appears to be partly over the site of previous sidings.

 

[Mikey C]

Greenwich station, where when it was rebuilt for the DLR, platform 2 was extended over the old London bound running line, which was replaced by a new one next to the coastbound line (there used to be a space between them before.

 

[swt_passenger]

Reading repositioned new P7, and new P10 are over previous running lines, the former mostly at the London end.

Do you count filling in of bay platforms? If so Reading again, old P6 and old P7 on the main island were filled in.

 

[Mikey C]

Angel, on the London Underground, was originally built with an island platform as at Clapham North; however the island platform was extended over one of the running lines and a new platform built to create two wider platforms rather than one narrow one.

The same was done at Euston (Bank branch) in the 60s when the Victoria Line was built

 

[swt_passenger]

[…]
I think the Overground platform alterations at Clapham Junction also count.

Definitely P2 is over a track. Current P1 is half of old P2

 

[Joseph_Locke]

Preston (Lancs) "new" platform 5/6, south end.

 

[geoffk]

Whimple, up platform extended to reach single line

Also Crewkerne, the former down platform built out. Templecombe has been mentioned (done to avoid building a ramped footbridge) so three on this line, all making eventual redoubling more difficult.