What stations have 2 platforms with 3 running tracks?

[BeansOnToast]

ie.
======== Platform
-------------- Track 1
-------------- Track 2
-------------- Track 3
======== Platform

So far, my only examples are Cardonald and Hillington East & West.

 

[Kite159]

Rhyl?

 

[Charlie978]

Dewsbury for a little while longer. Also platforms 1 & 2 at Sheffield are like this, but with access from p1 to the through line and vv.

 

[stadler]

ie.
======== Platform
-------------- Track 1
-------------- Track 2
-------------- Track 3
======== Platform

So far, my only examples are Cardonald and Hillington East & West.

These stations are the most similar other ones that i can think of:

Hatfield
Stamford Brook
Surbiton
West Byfleet

But unlike your examples these are all four track lines. But they have the same arrangement of three tracks between platforms like those three Scottish stations you mention. The fourth track goes on the other side of one of the platforms.

 

[greatkingrat]

Kensington Olympia if you ignore the District Line

 

[ac6000cw]

Ipswich (the two mainline tracks run between P2 and P3):



Peterborough (the fast lines run between P3 and P4):

 

[skyhigh]

Dewsbury for a little while longer.

And Mirfield.

Along with Wakefield Westgate, Harrogate and probably others I can't remember immediately.

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If the question is essentially which stations have through lines without a platform there are loads of examples.

 

[Nippy]

Princes Risborough

 

[William3000]

Cambridge

 

[gg1]

Dunbar

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If the question is essentially which stations have through lines without a platform there are loads of examples.

The way I read it was as per the OP's diagram, ie a station with 2 separate platforms (so not an island platform and not a station with more than than 2 platforms) with just the one through line running between the platform lines. A number of the stations suggested so far don't meet that criteria.

 

[MerlinRail 804]

South Ruislip, West Ruislip, Princes Risborough

 

[mr_jrt]

Bedford?

 

[Magdalia]

The example that nobody seems to have mentioned yet is Durham.

The ECML has lots of other stations where one but not both of the fast lines has no platform such as Alexandra Palace, Hatfield, Peterborough and Retford.

 

[Bob55G]

Wakefield Kirkgate. Three lines between platforms 1 & 2, all three (?) being bi-directional.

 

[Peter0124]

Perth and Stoke-on-Trent platform 1/2 both used to have this layout. The middle track was ripped up between 10 and 20 years ago?

 

[Tester]

Stafford

And while we are at it, with the same platform numbering (1 and 3).....

Lausanne

 

[CarltonA]

Princes Risborough

There is a bay however, making Prisbo a three platform station. Four if you count the heritage line at P4.

 

[The Planner]

Stafford

And while we are at it, with the same platform numbering (1 and 3).....

Lausanne

Sfafford is two through tracks and two loops on the fasts side?

 

[Tester]

Sfafford is two through tracks and two loops on the fasts side?

It is too!

I had one through track clearly in my mind, which indeed makes no sense (and means that the platform numbering makes even less sense!).

Lausanne on the other hand is definitely just one.

 

[Sir Felix Pole]

Plymouth has a through line between between Platforms 4 and 5 - designed originally for Ocean Liner expresses from Millbay Docks!

 

[brad465]

Maidstone East (ignoring the bay) and Maidstone West.

East has a through line that joins/diverges the up line at the west end and the down line at the east end; West is solely for Strood-bound use.

 

[TheWierdOne]

Bedford?

Bedford doesn’t have any through lines does it? They all pass a platform face

 

[SouthStand]

Wakefield westgate has already been mentioned, but before its current arrangement there were of course two through lines in the early 80s.

 

[AndrewE]

So far it looks like Durham and Rhyl...

 

[zwk500]

Bedford doesn’t have any through lines does it? They all pass a platform face

the up fast doesn't have a platform.

 

[Shaun_92]

Ferriby

 

[noddingdonkey]

And Mirfield.

Mirfield has three platforms on three lines at present?

 

[skyhigh]

Mirfield has three platforms on three lines at present?

No it doesn't! Definitely only 2 platforms.

 

[Kite159]

No it doesn't! Definitely only 2 platforms.

Before the TP upgrade work started it had 3 platforms.

 

[martin butler]

West Byfleet, has an island platform with down fast and slow running either side where as platform 1 is slow London bound only