[Trivia] How many stations still have wooden platforms?

[Joey Beauchamp]

My local station, Long Buckby, is all wooden apart from the far end of platform 1. They have just repaired half of platform 2 which was falling apart, meaning only doors on the front 4 carriages were opened for a few weeks.

They've also propped the fence up with wooden beams.

 

[Winthorpe]

Hag Fold and Hall I' th' wood are both wooden.

Hag Fold. Pretty much all the 80s Greater Manchester Stations I would imagine.

The platforms at Hag Fold have an interesting history. They were first used in 'Debdale Park' station for a public demonstration of light rail vehicles. This was 'Project Light Rail': the early development of the Manchester Metrolink system. They were moved to Hag Fold after the event.

After the public event, Debdale Park station was dismantled and the timber platform was used to build the new Hag Fold railway station near Wigan

Hyde Road railway station - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[infobleep]

If wood is perfectly safe, could they build new station platforms made of wood?

 

[WirralLine]

Heswall and Neston both have wooden platforms

As does Shotton both high and low levels if I remember rightly.

 

[Haywain]

If wood is perfectly safe, could they build new station platforms made of wood?

That depends on whether the current standards allow it to happen.

 

[pokemonsuper9]

The platforms at Hag Fold have an interesting history. They were first used in 'Debdale Park' station for a public demonstration of light rail vehicles. This was 'Project Light Rail': the early development of the Manchester Metrolink system. They were moved to Hag Fold after the event.

That's cool, I didn't know the platform was pre-used!

 

[D6130]

ISTR that - back in the 1970s or '80s - Kentish Town West station was closed for several years as a result of a fire which badly-damaged one of the wooden platforms and the station building.

 

[infobleep]

That depends on whether the current standards allow it to happen.

And current standards would surely be based on safety but obviously also accessibility.

 

[thealexweb]

Both platforms at Lostock are still wood.

 

[amarshe]

South Bermondsey? Just a guess based on the covering with when relayed tends to start sagging pretty quickly, happy to be proved wrong....

 

[Thebaz]

Dorking Deepdene I'm pretty sure is mostly wooden

 

[61653 HTAFC]

And current standards would surely be based on safety but obviously also accessibility.

There's nothing inherent to wooden platforms that means they're unable to meet the accessibility standards though.
Cost is probably the main reason we don't see wooden platforms more often... I'd presume that the metal components used to extend the platforms at Deighton and Mirfield are cheaper and easier to install than the substantial timber work that was used at Slaithwaite. Which does beg the question of why timber was used at Slaithwaite.

 

[Tractor37]

Chapeltown, South Yorkshire. Although you can also walk over the old concrete platforms to reach the current station.

Not wood I’m afraid. It’s a concrete under structure with tarmac’d platforms

 

[Purple Train]

Winnersh Triangle?

 

[Iskra]

Not wood I’m afraid. It’s a concrete under structure with tarmac’d platforms

Wow, that’s an impressive level of knowledge!

 

[Tractor37]

Wow, that’s an impressive level of knowledge!

Drive through it most weeks

 

[Pacco]

Woodsmoor does, on the Buxton line.

 

[infobleep]

What is platform 1 of Tulse Hill made of? It has anti slip boards on it, and I feel they could do with repairs as they are uneven. I was there on Friday.

 

[AY1975]

Lake on the Isle of Wight?

In the earlier thread linked from entry #19 above, someone mentioned Smallbrook Junction.

And what about Ryde Pier Head?

 

[plugwash]

Now I'm wondering which is the most recent wooden construction... Streethouse and Featherstone were both reopened with wooden platforms in 1992, anything newer than those? The temporary platform on Whitehall Curve in Leeds was timber-framed.

The short-lived workington north was timber planks on a scaffolding frame.