Rolling stock which is "stored" at a station platform overnight.

[Crossover]

I’m not sure if Scarborough still has trains berth overnight in the platforms. It certainly used to pre TMD

 

[Pacco]

Buxton definitely stables at least two units overnight. I should know, I've woken up there on the last train of the day, and had to stay in a hotel!

I begged the crew to take me back down the hill but they told me they lived there.

One question, is it normal for crew to live at these extreme points (thinking especially about the aforementioned Pwllheli) or are they ever put-up in hotels for the night?

 

[Watershed]

Buxton definitely stables at least two units overnight. I should know, I've woken up there on the last train of the day, and had to stay in a hotel!

I begged the crew to take me back down the hill but they told me they lived there.

One question, is it normal for crew to live at these extreme points (thinking especially about the aforementioned Pwllheli) or are they ever put-up in hotels for the night?

There's traincrew depots at Buxton and Pwllheli, as well as other minor termini such as Tweedbank, Mallaig and Stranraer.

 

[hermit]

One (and possibly both) of the Island Line sets in use spend the night at the bay platform at Ryde St Johns Road.

 

[Broken70]

I believe that there are units stores at Sheffield Station on Platform 8 & on the lines in between platforms overnight.

Correct. Platforms 2, 3 & 4 all take units when the centre roads and Fishdock are full, sometimes when they are not. It's about all Platform 2 is good for now unless they start some silly 150 operated Sheffield-Dore peak extras.

 

[warwickshire]

Leamington Spa class 172 170 196. WMR.
Birmingham Moor Street 168 165 very rare a class 68 and mk3. Chiltern.
Occasionally when engineering works on ie at Stratford upon Avon ie on occasions Wmr 172 170 and Chiltern 168 165, however Nb if engineering works Occasionally affects and prevents, last and first trains ecs Leamington or Birmingham areas to end or start from Stratford upon Avon.

 

[Townsend Hook]

Two Class 333s will be kept on one platform at Ilkley overnight to form the first and second trains of the day.

Occasionally they end up with units stabled in both platforms. Quite a few times I've been on overnight infrastructure monitoring trains which have had to reverse short of the platforms because they're both occupied

 

[Falcon1200]

Pendolinos do not normally stable in Glasgow Central overnight, but if we required longer engineering access in the Glasgow Central/Polmadie area than the around 3 hours usually available, we would ask Virgin (as it was in my day) to keep the last arrival in Central to form the first departure; And they were always very accommodating.

 

[nineteenninety]

Crewe Station has a few units stabled overnight, most notably LNWR 350's and Northern 323s.

 

[Ken H]

Back to the early days, the great train sheds at termini were there to service trains. Equipped with turntables to move the light vehicles between the tracks. Dont know if its an urban myth but its said the transepts at Paddington were there to house traversers.

 

[Deepgreen]

Before it was removed a few years back, Redhill's ex-Royal Mail bay platform was used to hold a class 455 overnight, which was unusual in that one end of the unit was sometimes 'off the juice' in doing so, relying on the front shoe to allow its morning departure. This was because the conductor rail ended well short of the buffers.

 

[CR165022]

London Marylebone?

I've never been there late but given daytime a number of sets are, or at least back pre-2020 were, in the platforms so a long walk to the units in service I would be surprised if several are not there overnight.

A 5 car 165 is still stabled there overnight now, the exception being on strike days where multiple sets are stabled instead

 

[Big Jumby 74]

Back to the early days, the great train sheds at termini were there to service trains. Equipped with turntables to move the light vehicles between the tracks. Dont know if its an urban myth but its said the transepts at Paddington were there to house traversers.

When Waterloo first opened there were multiple mini turntables (31 or there about), between the arrival and departure platforms, plus a number of others. The very last one to be removed (I believe) was situated on the departure platform road, near to where the 'crows nest' signal box was. Ref: Monographs various as published by The 'South Western Circle'.