Trivia: Which station has the curviest platform?

[Ken H]

maybe all posting at RailUKForums are round the bend!

 

[DarloRich]

York and Newcastle are the worst ones that I know of gauging wise

 

[Emyr]

Wivenhoe looks about the same radius as the tightest part of Deansgate, where I've stepped over some quite cavernous gaps.

 

[matchmaker]

Just to turn things around a bit, what stations have the curviest platforms but in a horizontal plane?

I'd nominate any station on the Glasgow subway as all (except Partick) are built on a hump, going back to the days of cable haulage.

 

[cactustwirly]

What about Wellingborough & Market Harborough?

 

[Ken H]

Just to turn things around a bit, what stations have the curviest platforms but in a horizontal plane?

I'd nominate any station on the Glasgow subway as all (except Partick) are built on a hump, going back to the days of cable haulage.

dont some LT platforms have the start of the down incline as they were built with saw tooth or hump profiles to help deceleration/deceleration and subsequent platform tunnel extensions have encroached onto the gradients. Think the central line is like this because of platform extensions in the 1930's to accommodate 8 car trains.

 

[urpert]

Just to turn things around a bit, what stations have the curviest platforms but in a horizontal plane?

I'd nominate any station on the Glasgow subway as all (except Partick) are built on a hump, going back to the days of cable haulage.

The south end of City Thameslink and the north end of Farringdon would be hard to beat.

 

[Welly]

Platform 5 at Lincoln (Dogbox) Central is pretty curvy, there are check rails and the Pacers squeal like **** on the curve at the west end. That sound will be gone by 2020 (maybe!)

 

[DarloRich]

What about Wellingborough & Market Harborough?

nowhere near as curved as York or Newcastle.

 

[gordonthemoron]

Deptford up platform is dreadful, concave curve, cant away from the platform, it's a bloody big gap widthways and heightways

 

[lewisf]

City Thameslink is very curvy in the vertical direction

 

[Esker-pades]

City Thameslink is very curvy in the vertical direction

"Station on the steepest gradient" discussion:
https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/trivia-steepest-gradient-in-a-station.175236/

 

[HaggisBotherer]

Had this conversation taken place a few years ago, I suspect Forfar would have been a contender

https://www.flickr.com/photos/kingfisher24/4959942841

The station code for Berry Brow is BBW.
This can also be used to describe a lady of generous proportion, i.e. "curvy".

Didn't even take my coat off...

Funnily enough I always chuckle immaturely when I go on the BBC web site

 

[Skipness]

Grosmont on the Esk Valley? Pacers have been known to get stuck on that tight curve!

I will second the vote for Grosmont platform 1.
The sound of loaded Pacers trying to negotiate the curve this summer in the high temperatures was a good imitation of a bacon slicer.

 

[Esker-pades]

Wimbledon Chase has pretty good bend on it.

 

[L&Y Robert]

What about Cogan? Just 5 mins out of Cardiff on the Vale of Glamorgan line.

 

[nowananorack]

Can I suggest platform 1 at Porthmadog on the Ffestiniog line?
Trains turn through 90 degrees.
Also Tanygrisiau(FR) and Beddgelert(WHR) curve a lot.
Beddgelert also has quite a gradient 1 in 40 such that the top of a train at the bottom point is lower than the wheels at the top point

 

[reb0118]

Although previously mentioned in passing Burntisland [BTS] is in with a shout.

 

[BurtonM]

Manchester Piccadilly 13/14, and Oxford Road?

 

[ScotGG]

Lewisham is bad - pic here http://www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk...stuck-for-four-hours-at-lewisham-again-today/