Trivia: Your favourite cross-platform/same platform connections

[47271]

Haymarket P3 to P2, generally off a TPE and straight onto a northbound Scotrail service.

 

[Dr_Paul]

Back in the day, I witnessed some cranks doing a quick leap between the old platforms 10 and 9 at Newcastle between two trains that were never stationary at the same time.

Jumping from train to train across the six foot in a station was not unknown in London termini in the days of slam-doors, although I'm never quite sure why people did it. Somebody I knew did it late one evening at Liverpool Street: he no sooner sat down when all the lights went out and the train whizzed off, non-stop to the sidings at Gidea Park.

 

[Statto]

Liverpool Central: from Hunts Cross line to Ormskirk line. Similarly for Kirkby, although it involves a slightly longer wait (and it's usually the same platform, not cross-platform, to be pedantic)

Journey planners indicate (or at least used to) that you should change between Scarborough bound TPE and Newcastle bound services at York. That usually involves a hike over a footbridge, whereas Leeds often affords a same platform connection.

Speaking of Liverpool Central, going from Northern Line platforms to the Wirral Line, you just go down one escalator i've regally made a 1 minute connection from Northern to Wirral Lines doing this, yet going the other way you have to go up two escalators & go past near the main entrance/exit then down one escalator.

 

[contractador]

1. Bakerloo to jubilee at Baker Street
2. Picadilly to district at baron's cout
3. Southern to thameslink at East Croydon (often same platform)

All work vice versa too.

 

[bussnapperwm]

Stourbridge Junction - alighting from a shuttle from Stourbridge Town on P1 always guarantees a connection to Birmingham via a cross platform interchange to P2

 

[AM9]

Farringdon: Southbound Thameslink, up a few steps (8'ish) to the Westbound Met/Hammersmith/Circle lines LU platform for a nifty ride to Paddington. Far better than the 1/4 mile or so 'official' trek at St Pancras/Kings Cross.
In 2 years time there'll be Crossrail services speeding from a low level station at Farringdon. I wonder if it will actually be quicker overall than the existing journey to Paddington via Farringdon.

 

[341o2]

Brockenhurst, Lymington branch pl 4 to pl 3. does the first train of the day still start from pl 1 thereby giving a once a day cross platform to up mainline services.

pl1 also used by the hourly stopping service which lays over for about 20 nmins before departing to stop at Sway and Hinton Admiral

 

[xotGD]

Jumping from train to train across the six foot in a station was not unknown in London termini in the days of slam-doors, although I'm never quite sure why people did it. Somebody I knew did it late one evening at Liverpool Street: he no sooner sat down when all the lights went out and the train whizzed off, non-stop to the sidings at Gidea Park.

I've heard of someone doing a train to train leap between the centre road at York* and a train in the platform, thereby avoiding an unwanted journey to Scarborough. A few strange looks from the normals, by all accounts.

*For the benefit of younger readers, there used to be a centre road through York.

 

[JamesRowden]

Mile End - Central/District

 

[30907]

An arrival from Bradford (or a 333 from Leeds if you got on at, say, Saltaire) can come in to 1 or 2 at Skipton, needing a subway move to Platform 3 for the connection. Or change at Keighley

Sorry, didn't read properly and was thinking the Shipley subway. Of course you are right for Skipton, I should know!

 

[Strathclyder]

Dalmuir P4 to P5 - if timed right, I can hop across from a Helensburgh Central - Edinburgh fast service to a all-stations service to Whifflet/Motherwell for my stop at Clydebank (as the former runs non-stop between Dalmuir & Hyndland).

 

[306024]

Thorpe-le-Soken (for Walton-on-the-Naze)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXNM-Dpi9xs

With apologies for the link

 

[AndrewE]

Thorpe-le-Soken (for Walton-on-the-Naze)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXNM-Dpi9xs

With apologies for the link

Don't apologise, thank you for it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUHx8iirDzY
is excellent too, part of our history and folk tradition that we might not participate in but need to be aware of. Country dancing is fun (if not taken too seriously) and this is just a very specialised form of it.

p.s I am surprised how few views it has had, given that it seems to have been posted 4 years ago. I'm sure some sourpuss will claim that the reason is because it's an irrelevant part of the past, but I disagree! I hope it survives in the "backwaters" that appreciate such things...

 

[Cletus]

Was at Nunhead again today. Nothing much as a station, but some good views across London.

 

[317 forever]

Herne Hill, from Thameslink to Southeastern.

 

[306024]

Don't apologise, thank you for it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUHx8iirDzY
is excellent too, part of our history and folk tradition that we might not participate in but need to be aware of. Country dancing is fun (if not taken too seriously) and this is just a very specialised form of it.

The apology was a bit tongue in cheek - I'm with you, just that is it not perhaps aimed at the usual target audience of RUKF. Just hope I can move as well as the legendary Percy West when I'm his age I'd mention Lighthouse Lil too, but forum rules probably don't permit.

Meanwhile back on topic the Southminster branch uses the up side bay for a cross platform connection to London in the morning and the down side bay for a cross platform connection from London in the evening. All very customer friendly unless you travel to Southend, but those are in the minority.

 

[Silver Cobra]

A simple one for me is at Peterborough when hopping off a southbound VTEC service on platform 3 (e.g. weekday 1602 ex-York and 1625 ex-Newcastle) to a waiting GN service on platform 2.

 

[bradford758]

Bradford Forster Square to Harrogate via Leeds p 2/3/4 to p1 arr 55 dep 59 saves waiting about though you have to check as some don't leave from p1.

Sent from my 4009X

 

[lejog]

But that's not a cross-platform connection, is it?

An interesting option is retracing the original, hopelessly indirect Lancashire & Yorkshire Manchester to Leeds route with two same platform changes. Victoria-Brighouse-Mirfield change at platform 1 for a 4minute wait for a train to Wakefield Kirkgate. Then stay on platform 1 for a somewhat longer wait for a Leeds train.

Although I hesitate to call any journey involving waiting at Kirkgate a favourite.

 

[xotGD]

Any interchange at Castleford is a same-platform connection!

I have seen people bail there for a Glasshoughton to Wakefield (or beyond) connection.

 

[Ianno87]

Herne Hill, from Thameslink to Southeastern.

In the evening peak heading for stations to Beckenham Junction (which in the peak are served by both Southeastern and ex-Thameslink services) the cannier passengers wait to see which platform end signal clears first, jumping on the appropriate train!

 

[TheNewNo2]

I used to use Tamworth to switch between a Bristol-Glasgow CrossCountry HST to a Nottingham-bound Turbostar. Avoid dragging a heavy case through Derby or changing at the hell which is Birmingham New Street. Plus a chance to watch WCML stuff.

 

[route:oxford]

The first two not what the OP meant but:-

It's got to be Wemyss Bay Platform to Wemyss Bay Dock - all without leaving the building.

Edinburgh Park Station East Bound tram to Edinburgh Park Station Stirling Train.

Princes Risborough from Aylesbury service onto Marylebone Service.

The same-platform interchange that I really hate is at Wolverhampton. 11-Car Pendolino from Glasgow to 4-car Voyager to Oxford. It's a scrum.

 

[FenMan]

Take the 19:03 Paddington - Plymouth service to Reading, arriving on P7 at 19:28
Depart from P6 on the 19:34 Reading - Gatwick Airport service, arriving at Blackwater at 19:50.

Through journey time courtesy of this unofficial, but easy, connection:
0h 47m.

It's probably more reliable than taking the official connection from Paddington, the 19:00, which arrives at 19:24 on P8, thus entailing a queue for the escalators, a dash over the bridge and a 50 metre trot back to P6.

 

[anti-pacer]

Sheffield, coming off the EMT from Liverpool, onto the xx:50 Northern semi-fast to Wakefield Kirkgate. It's the same platform!

I do this journey a lot now.