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Busy single platform stations

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frodshamfella

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I was wondering the other day if there are any stations with just the one platform, that are actually quite busy. You tend to think of single platform stations on quiet rural branch lines, but maybe there are some exceptions ? Of course there could be some terminus stations which have frequent departures, perhaps the London Underground . Anyway, any thoughts ?
 
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Seem to remember Chafford Hundred station at Lakeside was the busiest single-platform, and Chelmsford the busiest twin-platform.
 

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What's meant by "busy"? Number of passengers? Number of train movements?

East Kilbride only has the one platform and quite recently handled roughly a million passengers in a "normal" (pre COVID) year.
 

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I was wondering the other day if there are any stations with just the one platform, that are actually quite busy. You tend to think of single platform stations on quiet rural branch lines, but maybe there are some exceptions ? Of course there could be some terminus stations which have frequent departures, perhaps the London Underground . Anyway, any thoughts ?
How exactly are we counting platforms? does a single track with platform down both sides count as one platform or two?

Specifically i'm thinking of tower gateway on the DLR.
 

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If you consider Merseyrail separate from the mainline, which it sort of is, then Liverpool Lime St Low Level probably ranks quite high.

Ormskirk and Kirkby probably do too, if you consider a single physical platform with buffer stops in the middle as one platform.
 

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Beckenham Road and Birkbeck tram stops on Croydon Tramlink are both single platform stops, which must be fairly busy, with frequent services in both directions.
 

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Redditch has to amongst the highest with pre-Covid usage of just over 1 million passengers per annum.
 

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Redditch has to amongst the highest with pre-Covid usage of just over 1 million passengers per annum.
pre Covid Chafford Hundred had 2.9 million in 2018/19? I think it was considered a winner when this was last discussed a few years ago, which is probably why Taunton remembered and suggested it…
 

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pre Covid Chafford Hundred had 2.9 million in 2018/19? I think it was considered a winner when this was last discussed a few years ago
Think we have a winner. Windsor and Eton Central was also understood to be quite busy in terms of numbers of passengers per annum, but somewhat less than Chafford Hundred in sunny Essex.
 

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Glossop was slightly ahead of Redditch in the 2018/19 figures with 1.1m, roughly the same as Margate or Perth but operated by a single staff member!
 

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Hartlepool; or is the south-facing bay platform still used?
Still used as far as I know by a single departure per week (or something like that).

South Shields must be quite a busy station but good luck pulling accurate passenger data for that.

Windsor Central?

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How many folk use Corby in a typical (normal) year?
300k
 

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I’d imagine Ware is quite busy. Half hourly commuter run to London. Certainly not Chafford Hundred numbers, but a good number I’d wager.
 

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They are not as busy, but Belmont, Banstead and Epsom Down all carry a decent number of passengers.

Also Uckfield and Seaford too.
 

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Glossop the same as Margate ! That's quite a surprise.
I'm drawn to say that Glossop tickets might be bought by people who actually get off at Dinting or Hadfield too and vice versa as the stations are in a similar area and are probably the same price to/from anywhere.
 

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There’s quite a few single platform stations in Scotland that’ll likely have decent passenger numbers, aside from East Kilbride of course (Scotland’s sixth largest settlement or thereabouts).

The likes of Balloch, Alexandria, West Kilbride, Fairlie, Chatelherault, Galashiels, Gorebridge, Newtongrange, Newcraighall, North Berwick, Mosspark, Crookston, Paisley Canal, Inverkip all spring to mind.

Further north I’d imagine stations like Connel Ferry, Beauly, Conon Bridge and Alness get reasonable patronage too.
 

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Exmouth and Digby & Sowton were quite high pre-COVID for passenger numbers, but not as high as others mentioned here.

St Ives was another busy one, especially in summer!
 

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What's meant by "busy"? Number of passengers? Number of train movements?

East Kilbride only has the one platform and quite recently handled roughly a million passengers in a "normal" (pre COVID) year.

I was thinking of frequent departures, but open to people's knowledge

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How exactly are we counting platforms? does a single track with platform down both sides count as one platform or two?

Specifically i'm thinking of tower gateway on the DLR.

I was thinking a single track serving a single platform, and not specifically terminus stations.
 

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Further north I’d imagine stations like Connel Ferry, Beauly, Conon Bridge and Alness get reasonable patronage too.
Reasonable perhaps in the context of infrequent service and small populations and compared to other stations on the routes, but minimal when compared with some of the stations previously mentioned.
 

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I'm drawn to say that Glossop tickets might be bought by people who actually get off at Dinting or Hadfield too and vice versa as the stations are in a similar area and are probably the same price to/from anywhere.
I don't really follow the logic, I'm sorry. Outbound passengers from all three stations would surely buy a ticket valid from where they originated on the vast majority of occasions. There might be a few instances of somebody who is, say, dropped off at Dinting in the morning but finds it more convenient to return to Glossop doing this, but in my experience of working at these stations, this would be a minimal number. Most season tickets were GM Traincards in my day, as these were cheaper than point-to-point seasons to Manchester.

Inbound, Glossop did attract quite a bit of leisure trade, but Hadfield and Dinting considerably less so. If anything, visitors might theoretically buy a ticket to Hadfield vice a Glossop one as that is the furthest point on the line. Again, a lot used the various GM rover tickets.
 

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There’s quite a few single platform stations in Scotland that’ll likely have decent passenger numbers, aside from East Kilbride of course (Scotland’s sixth largest settlement or thereabouts).

And Ardrossan South Beach, which although with two tracks has only one platform, served by two passenger trains an hour in each direction, and the occasional flask train (pus in the past of course empty iron ore and coal trains en route to Hunterston !)
 
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