Tracks with two platform faces (Norwood Jn & others)

[Eagle]

These platforms seem so dangerous in third rail land. They just look wrong!

I think all the ones on third-rail lines are only allowed to open on the non-leccy side.

 

[Cherry_Picker]

The down bay at Banbury has a platform face on either side of the track, though it doest have a number and isnt open for passenger services.


Platform 1 at High Wycombe does too, though one side is fenced off:

The reason is because the bay was quite small before and in order to get longer trains in there the platform had to be lengthened, but to do it on the existing side was virtually impossible due to the underpass entrance. So a new platform was built on the other side and the existing face was fenced off. It's still there to be seen though.

 

[David Goddard]

At Reading, the central island bay platforms 6 (now 16) and 7 (closed 7 December) are both double sided, although since the introduction of trains with power operated doors they have only used one side- the north face on 6 and the South side on 7. Platform 16 will also go during the remodelling.

 

[mountainmike]

Wigan Wallgate bay platform

 

[Dstock7080]

Another on LU, Gloucester Road (District) EB - the 'disused' side seeing limited use in the 1990s.

 

[matchmaker]

Hillhead on the Glasgow Subway has an island and a side platform.

 

[button_boxer]

The reason is because the bay was quite small before and in order to get longer trains in there the platform had to be lengthened, but to do it on the existing side was virtually impossible due to the underpass entrance. So a new platform was built on the other side and the existing face was fenced off. It's still there to be seen though.

Similar story at Sheffield platform 7, where they switched to using the face adjacent to 8 when the second hourly London service was introduced because that face is long enough for a 5 car meridian, whereas the face adjacent to platform 6 can only take 4 cars. Took them a while to move the signs though, for the first few months the platform number and the electronic sign were on the "wrong" side of the train.

 

[scotsman]

Platform 18 in Waverley

 

[marks87]

Platform 6 at Inverness has two faces, but (like Platform 1 at Nottingham) only one side is used; the other is a route down to Platform 7 and the exit towards the bus station.

 

[SprinterMan]

The terminating bay at Greenford for services from Paddington is double-faced, but both faces are labelled "Platform 2" and only one face is used (the east face) but this is not announced and can be confusing. :P

 

[Harlesden]

Sorry, post withdrawn

 

[Cherry_Picker]

Similar story at Sheffield platform 7, where they switched to using the face adjacent to 8 when the second hourly London service was introduced because that face is long enough for a 5 car meridian, whereas the face adjacent to platform 6 can only take 4 cars. Took them a while to move the signs though, for the first few months the platform number and the electronic sign were on the "wrong" side of the train.

To elaborate on the specifics of the High Wycombe bay, it was so six car 165s to terminate in the station. As far as I am aware it wasn't originally done as a capacity thing either, it was just a diagramming issue in a timetable one time where a six car had been running around in the morning peak and the sidings at Marylebone (remember them?) were full so extending the bay at Wycombe was the easiest and quickest solution. It was only meant to exist for six months, so the original extension was made out the proverbial wood and string. Ten years on and it is very much a permanent feature of the station, and it is made out of altogether more sturdy materials!