Halifaxlad
Established Member
To prevent myself from contaminating the Middlesbrough thread in the Infrastructure and Stations section I thought should create one here in Speculative Ideas for anybody who likes to speculate on what's possible.
My ideal regarding Middlesborough
Following on this plan/idea of creating a new platform on the Northern side of the freight lines, why not just build over the old bay platform and up to freight line on the South side ? Judging by Google Maps you could squeeze a 205m platform in comfortably without having to realign the track.
Another idea is to put the through road back in, extend platform 2 Easterwards and build it out over the existing line so that the West side could be made into a West facing turnback.
Also considering the original canopy would look rather silly I would dismantle it and re-erect in on platform 1 & 2 where the 1950s/60 concrete canopy is now.
My ideal regarding Middlesborough
Following on this plan/idea of creating a new platform on the Northern side of the freight lines, why not just build over the old bay platform and up to freight line on the South side ? Judging by Google Maps you could squeeze a 205m platform in comfortably without having to realign the track.
Another idea is to put the through road back in, extend platform 2 Easterwards and build it out over the existing line so that the West side could be made into a West facing turnback.
Also considering the original canopy would look rather silly I would dismantle it and re-erect in on platform 1 & 2 where the 1950s/60 concrete canopy is now.