Two Tier Stations

[mrcheek]

I was interested to discover this week that Tamworth is effectively two railway stations in one, with the WCML on one level, and the cross country line on another.
what other stations on the network are there like this? The only other one I am aware of is Liskeard, which has the mainline on one level and the branchline to Looe on another.

PS I am not interested in London Underground stations!!!!

 

[Daniel]

Smethwick Galton Bridge is one..

 

[Mojo]

Smethwick Galton Bridge has the line between New Street and Wolverhampton on the low level and the diesel lines into Snow Hill on the upper level. From what I remember, the ticket office (and street level) is even higher up than the upper level platforms!

 

[me123]

Glasgow Queen Street and Central both have this arrangement! Although, the upper levels are all terminus platforms and the lower levels are cross-city lines on the North Clyde and Argyle lines respectively.

So these one's aren't the same as the ones listed above, but there's not many like them out there!

 

[Phoenix]

Smethwick Galton Bridge has the line between New Street and Wolverhampton on the low level and the diesel lines into Snow Hill on the upper level. From what I remember, the ticket office (and street level) is even higher up than the upper level platforms!

Indeed it is.

Funnily enough the Trent valley has a high amount of stations that serve as a high and low level those being.

Lichfield Trent Valley.
Tamworth

And finally Nuneaton but in this case it doesn't exactly count although the tracks to platforms 6 and 7 go over the WCML and until recently were completely separate

 

[EM2]

St Pancras - East Midlands Trains and Eurostar 'upstairs', Fist Capital Connect 'downstairs'
Stratford - NXEA & Central Line on the higher level, London Overground (North London Line) and Jubilee Line at ground level
London Bridge - The through lines are higher up then the terminus
And slightly different - Victoria was built as two stations built side-by-side
Moorgate? I'm not sure if that counts

 

[Max]

Retford is a good one - Retford high level being the ECML, low level the Sheffield-Lincoln line.

 

[A0wen]

Although you said not Underground ones, I think Highbury & Islington warrants a mention as you've got the North London Lines at one level and the underground FCC Drayton Park - Moorgate line.

Willesden Junction has both a high and low level station with separate platforms.

Liverpool Lime Street - with both the mainline and Merseyrail separate. And IIRC Liverpool Central has separate platforms for the Southport services to the Wirral services (different levels?)

And there's another one - the place name slips my mind - which is on both the Wirral - Wrexham and the North Wales coast line.

 

[generalvegitable]

there is also Lichfield Trent Valley, it has the cross city on the top and the wcml on the bottom

 

[Phoenix]

there is also Lichfield Trent Valley, it has the cross city on the top and the wcml on the bottom

Beat you to above sorry.

 

[generalvegitable]

oh yeah i just noticed

edit: soon i think that blechley will be one with the opening of that line that goes above it (i don't know where it goes)

 

[A0wen]

oh yeah i just noticed

edit: soon i think that blechley will be one with the opening of that line that goes above it (i don't know where it goes)

No there won't be any change at Bletchley.

The flyover was a freight only line, which mean traffic on the 'Oxford - Cambridge' line could pass through Bletchley without having an impact on the WCML services.

The plan - as I understand it - if Bedford - Oxford services were to be introduced is the trains from Bedford would run into Bletchley (as they do at present) and would then reverse to pick up the Oxford line.

There aren't any high level / separate platforms at Bletchley currently, and I'm not sure it would be cost effective to create high level platforms.

 

[generalvegitable]

i think they might i'm not exactly sure

 

[jopsuk]

At Liskeard, Platform 3 is pretty much at the same level as 1 and 2- it is, however, at right angles to them, on the side furthest from Looe!

 

[metrocammel]

No there won't be any change at Bletchley.

Quite probably, as I doubt it'll ever happen, however, one of the plans associated with the re-opening of the 'Varsity Line' include a 'high-level' station at Bletchley, so the 'cross-country' services wouldn't have to interfere with ICWC services (as otherwise they would have to cross the WCML)

 

[steve158]

And there's another one - the place name slips my mind - which is on both the Wirral - Wrexham and the North Wales coast line.

Shotton. it must be one of the smallest places to have a Two Tier Station!

 

[adc82140]

Willesden Junction- upstairs for London Overground to Clapham Junction, downstairs for London Overground Watford DCs and Bakerloo line.

 

[AlterEgo]

Glasgow Central, and Queen Street. There's another two.

There's loads!

 

[me123]

^See my post above

 

[Techniquest]

I've never gone there to explore it yet to find any evidence of it being the case, but Builth Road used to be a two-tier station. One for the current Heart of Wales (also known as the Central Wales line) and one for the cross-Wales line (LNWR?) below it. To imagine it used to be an interchange for the two lines seems like the most bizarre idea ever considering the level of services and size of the place these days!

 

[The_Rail_WAy]

Wigan Wallgate could fit into this category in the sense that you have Wigan North Western (WCML) which crosses over the Wigan - Southport/Kirby lines and then links back up with the Wigan - Manchester lines with Wigan Wallgate inbetween.

Both lines are linked and the stations are yards apart.

 

[Daimler]

East Grinstead used to have high & low level platforms, with the high level on the Three Bridges - Tunbridge Wells route and the low level serving the line to Lewes - the Bluebell now, of course.

 

[First class]

Shotton has the Bidston-Wrexham services above the Chester-North Wales Coast line.

Additionally, Liverpool South Parkway has the Merseyrail network lower down than the services towards Crewe and Warrington...

You could say that Moorfields station is also 2-tier as it has the Northern Line higher than the Wirral line...

 

[dan_atki]

The through platforms at Portsmouth & Southsea are upstairs with the terminus platforms downstairs.

Another one that instantly springs to mind is Nuneaton: Leicester to Birmingham upstairs, Euston to Crewe downstairs.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

And there's another one - the place name slips my mind - which is on both the Wirral - Wrexham and the North Wales coast line.

That would be Shotton.

 

[Proud Salopian]

Okay, cheating slightly here as one line is narrow gauge/different network, but Minffordd on the Cambrian coast line is two level, with the Network Rail line and platform running below the Ffestiniog line and platforms. Trains on the FR can run through the extensive yard at Minffordd to reach the lower level, where there were once transfer sidings (now an engine shed/general depot).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minffordd_railway_station

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v...dir=0&alt=-1000&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1

 

[scrapy]

Manchester Piccadilly? The main station on arches with two metrolink platforms below.

Sheffield and Nottingham also have tram platforms at different levels.

With the introduction of tram trains in Sheffield and possibly Manchester these could be classed as the national rail network in the future.

 

[gordonthemoron]

if the NET tram counts, nottingham will soon have one

 

[Spaceflower]

Newcastle if the Metro counts.

 

[MCR247]

if the NET tram counts, nottingham will soon have one

What do you mean soon?