Trivia: Most Platforms lost.

[GrimsbyPacer]

Hi, My Dad said that Colne Station in Lancashire once had 5 platforms and now just has 1.
Is there anywhere else that's still open that lost 4 or more platforms?
Thanks.

 

[kjhskj75]

Manchester Victoria.

Originally 17, now 6 + 3 Metrolink

(17 doesn't include the 5 at Exchange)

 

[imagination]

I have a picture of Halifax with what appears to be 8 platforms, and now it has 2.

 

[59CosG95]

Hi, My Dad said that Colne Station in Lancashire once had 5 platforms and now just has 1.
Is there anywhere else that's still open that lost 4 or more platforms?
Thanks.

Honeybourne lost a similar amount-used to have 4, now down to 1.

 

[bluenoxid]

Manors used to be pretty big

 

[Liam]

Blackpool North?

 

[swt_passenger]

Manors used to be pretty big

Yes, that would be 9 reduced to 2.

(Increased from 8 to 9 as I realised there were three bays for terminating Blyth and Tyne services.)

 

[61653 HTAFC]

How many platforms did Blackpool South have at its peak? Only one now of course. I guess there's a few seaside resorts who's stations have been vastly reduced in size... Blackpool South of course wasn't a terminus for a long time so I wouldn't be surprised if there are a fair few which have lost more though.

 

[syorksdeano]

Both Bradford stations?

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Manchester Victoria has lost a few too, especially if you bend the rules to include Exchange in the total!

 

[thenorthern]

Ambergate used to have 6 but it now has 1, Uttoxeter used to have 3 stations each with many platforms at least 6 but now it only has 1 with 2 platforms.

 

[EM2]

Epsom Downs - built with nine, it now has one.

 

[gimmea50anyday]

Blackpool, combining north, south and central stations would be well in the 20's at a guess

 

[Adam0984]

A serious contender must be Normanton W Yorks been the interchange station for multiple companies. Now is just one island with 2 platforms

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Blackpool, combining north, south and central stations would be well in the 20's at a guess

With yet more planned to go as part of the electrification works at North...

 

[thenorthern]

Crewe has certainly lost a number of platforms over the years although not sure how many. Duffield has lost some platforms over the years as well but I am not sure how many.

 

[DarloRich]

Surely Blackpool Central or Glasgow St Enoch or Liverpool Central

 

[ge-gn]

Didnt Spalding have something like 7 platforms? Now 2.
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Newcastle is much reduced from how I remember it in th early 80's..

 

[mlambeuk]

York lost about 6 platforms in the 80's.

 

[steamybrian]

Christs Hospital station had 7 platforms until the mid 1960s and now has 2
Blackpool North had 16 platforms and now has 8
Aberystwyth had 5 platforms and now has one.

 

[cactustwirly]

Honeybourne lost a similar amount-used to have 4, now down to 1.

Honeybourne has actually got 2 platforms, the second re-opened as part of the Cotswold re-doubling

 

[Disorientxpres]

Hatch End used to have six platforms, now 2.

 

[Darren R]

A serious contender must be Normanton W Yorks been the interchange station for multiple companies. Now is just one island with 2 platforms

Normanton only ever had the island platform it retains, but at its zenith there were double bays at both ends as well. Although it was an important junction, it was never a particularly large station.

Blackpool North had 16 platforms and now has 8

Surely Talbot Road had 14 platforms? Six 'under the roof' in the main part of the station, plus the eight excursion platforms outside that form the current Blackpool North. Blackpool Central had 16 platforms. (Sorry - pedant mode off!)

How many platforms did Blackpool South have at its peak? Only one now of course. I guess there's a few seaside resorts who's stations have been vastly reduced in size... Blackpool South of course wasn't a terminus for a long time so I wouldn't be surprised if there are a fair few which have lost more though.

Blackpool South wasn't much of a station either, even at its height, with only four platforms: an island on each route. Trains didn't terminate there until Central station closed, and since both the direct and coastal routes were only double track, there was no need for a larger station.

 

[kjhskj75]

Crewe has certainly lost a number of platforms over the years although not sure how many.

5, all on the western island. Down from 17 to 12.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fairfield once had 6 platforms (4 on the main line and 2 on the now closed Fallowfield branch line), but now only has two.

 

[asylumxl]

Not as dramatic a loss as some, but I believe Loughborough Junction used to have six platforms. Now it has two (poorly maintained) platforms.

 

[Doctor Fegg]

Honeybourne has actually got 2 platforms, the second re-opened as part of the Cotswold re-doubling

And passive provision for reinstating a third face when the GWSR gets there.

 

[Ash Bridge]

Chinley must have had a least 6 platforms including bays, now down to just 2, also would hazard a guess that Morecambe now down to 2 also fits the bill, Stockport of course lost 4 bay platforms but later gained a new through platform (0).

 

[crispy1978]

Scarborough used to have 9, now down to 5 and to be honest only 3 of those are used 99% of the time.
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York lost about 6 platforms in the 80's.

Where were the 6 out of interest?

 

[DarloRich]

Where were the 6 out of interest?

where the car parks are now