Trivia: Stations with two platforms with platform edges facing the same direction.

[gazr]

I was looking at OTT maps and noticed two stations close together(hint) that had this strange arrangement and was wondering if there was any more (without going through my Quail maps!). I'll throw it out as a trivia question instead

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Something like is possibly the case at Ulverston station?

 

[gazr]

Something like is possibly the case at Ulverston station?

Technically, yes. Although there is an unused platform face. I'll give you this one

 

[PGAT]

Do Norwood Junction Platforms 5 & 6 count here?

 

[busestrains]

These three stations are all like this:

• Denham
• Harringay
• Hornsey

I forget which ones but i believe that there are quite a few deep level London Underground stations like this too.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

If it wasn't for the seldom-used platform 2, Mirfield would qualify.

 

[HarryF]

Gravesend

 

[alastair]

Ascot? Although that also has a 3rd platform.

 

[WizCastro197]

Guildford? Platforms 7&8?

I am confused by criteria, can someone kindly explain please?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

I am confused by criteria, can someone kindly explain please?

Fair question. Would imagine that any GB railway station with more than just the two operational platforms is automatically excluded.

 

[gazr]

These three stations are all like this:

• Denham
• Harringay
• Hornsey

I forget which ones but i believe that there are quite a few deep level London Underground stations like this too.

These are the two of the three stations that made me ponder. The criteria is 2 platforms, with 2 platform edges only, both facing the same direction (i.e. not the normal way things work).

 

[WizCastro197]

These are the two of the three stations that made me ponder. The criteria is 2 platforms, with 2 platform edges only, both facing the same direction (i.e. not the normal way things work).

Does Woking count? Although it has way more than just 2 platforms? Do I have the right kind of idea though?

 

[MisterSheeps]

Sellafield ?

 

[lxfe_mxtterz]

I believe Sellafield also fits the criteria here.

EDIT - beaten by a second!

 

[MisterSheeps]

beaten by a second!

sorry. Was a sort of guess, would have been clearer if the OP had specified platform faces in same geographical direction.
I have seen a photo of West Auckland (Bishop Auckland to Barnard Castle) which had something similar, one platform behind another, but not an island.

 

[lxfe_mxtterz]

sorry. Was a sort of guess, would have been clearer if the OP had specified platform faces in same geographical direction.
I have seen a photo of West Auckland (Bishop Auckland to Barnard Castle) which had something similar, one platform behind another, but not an island.

That reminds me, Penryn may also qualify here - though an exceptional case where both platforms are adjacent along the same track.

 

[PGAT]

It doesn't make much sense until you think about terminals with 2 platforms, such as Caterham

 

[gazr]

Here's an example of what I poorly tried to explain (taken from traksy.uk). As you can see from the red line on the platforms, this is the platform face where don't trains stop. There are only two platforms and both the edges where trains do stop face the same direction. Hope that clarifies things.
Edit: Thanks Bald Rick for pointing that out I'm starting to wish I hadn't started this now!


Image shows the track layout and platforms at Harringay and Hornsey stations, where both platform where trains stop and passengers board face the same direction.

 

[Bald Rick]

Here's an example of what I poorly tried to explain (taken from traksy.uk). As you can see from the red line on the platforms, this is the platform face where trains stop. There are only two platforms and both the red lines (edges) face the same direction. Hope that clarifies things.

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Image shows the track layout and platforms at Harringay and Hornsey stations, where both platform where trains stop and passengers board face the same direction.

For clarity, the red line denotes the side of the platform where trains don't stop.

Presumably at some stations there is a fence on the ‘closed’ side, and at some there isn’t.

 

[midland1]

Retford ECML.

 

[BeijingDave]

Retford ECML.

I was about to say that, beat me to it.

Also, Yeovil Pen Mill.

 

[richard1976]

Penryn
Kirkby (Merseyside)
Ormskirk
Do these station fit the criteria

 

[gazr]

Penryn
Kirkby (Merseyside)
Ormskirk
Do these station fit the criteria

Again, technically yes, but not within the spirit. All stations above have one platform split into two, not two (and only two) separate platforms.

 

[AlbertBeale]

A number on the Underground in London - eg Waterloo on the Bakerloo; South Ken on the Piccadilly I think, as well. Also, considering the District only (not the Circle, except at certain times), Gloucester Road. I'm sure there are others too...

 

[busestrains]

A number on the Underground in London - eg Waterloo on the Bakerloo; South Ken on the Piccadilly I think, as well. Also, considering the District only (not the Circle, except at certain times), Gloucester Road. I'm sure there are others too...

On the London Underground all of the following fourteen stations could count:

• Baker Street
• Borough
• Chancery Lane
• Finsbury Park
• Gloucester Road
• Kentish Town
• Mansion House
• Notting Hill Gate
• Oval
• Regents Park
• South Kensington
• St Pauls
• Tufnell Park
• Waterloo

However which ones you want to include depends how you define it.

Borough, Chancery Lane, Oval, Regents Park, St Pauls, Tufnell Park, all definitely count for what this thread is asking. So these can definitely be added to the list. They all have two platforms on the same side.

Kentish Town counts for the London Underground platforms but the National Rail platforms are normal.

Baker Street (Bakerloo and Jubilee), Finsbury Park (Piccadilly and Victoria), Gloucester Road (District), Notting Hill Gate (Central), South Kensington (Piccadilly), Waterloo (Bakerloo), count for certain lines. The lines mentioned have both platforms for both directions on the same side. But they do have lots of other platforms too.

Mansion House counts too as both of the remaining usable platforms are on the same side. However the middle platform still exists and is not fenced off but the track has been removed. But this one probably counts.

So there are up to fourteen like this on the London Underground depending on your definition.

 

[TT-ONR-NRN]

On the London Underground all of the following fourteen stations could count:

• Baker Street
• Borough
• Chancery Lane
• Finsbury Park
• Gloucester Road
• Kentish Town
• Mansion House
• Notting Hill Gate
• Oval
• Regents Park
• South Kensington
• St Pauls
• Tufnell Park
• Waterloo

However which ones you want to include depends how you define it.

Borough, Chancery Lane, Oval, Regents Park, St Pauls, Tufnell Park, all definitely count for what this thread is asking. So these can definitely be added to the list. They all have two platforms on the same side.

Kentish Town counts for the London Underground platforms but the National Rail platforms are normal.

Baker Street (Bakerloo and Jubilee), Finsbury Park (Piccadilly and Victoria), Gloucester Road (District), Notting Hill Gate (Central), South Kensington (Piccadilly), Waterloo (Bakerloo), count for certain lines. The lines mentioned have both platforms for both directions on the same side. But they do have lots of other platforms too.

Mansion House counts too as both of the remaining usable platforms are on the same side. However the middle platform still exists and is not fenced off but the track has been removed. But this one probably counts.

So there are up to fourteen like this on the London Underground depending on your definition.

I think Finsbury Park counts for National Rail too

 

[busestrains]

I think Finsbury Park counts for National Rail too

I would not think the National Rail platforms would. The platforms for National Rail at Finsbury Park are on both sides. For example Moorgate trains normally use P1 Southbound and P8 Northbound and these platform faces are on opposite sides to each other. Finsbury Park has eight platforms (but six tracks) but they are all on a mixture of both sides. So if i have understood what the thread is asking i would not think the National Rail platforms at Finsbury Park count.

 

[AlbertBeale]

On the London Underground all of the following fourteen stations could count:

• Baker Street
• Borough
• Chancery Lane
• Finsbury Park
• Gloucester Road
• Kentish Town
• Mansion House
• Notting Hill Gate
• Oval
• Regents Park
• South Kensington
• St Pauls
• Tufnell Park
• Waterloo

However which ones you want to include depends how you define it.

Borough, Chancery Lane, Oval, Regents Park, St Pauls, Tufnell Park, all definitely count for what this thread is asking. So these can definitely be added to the list. They all have two platforms on the same side.

Kentish Town counts for the London Underground platforms but the National Rail platforms are normal.

Baker Street (Bakerloo and Jubilee), Finsbury Park (Piccadilly and Victoria), Gloucester Road (District), Notting Hill Gate (Central), South Kensington (Piccadilly), Waterloo (Bakerloo), count for certain lines. The lines mentioned have both platforms for both directions on the same side. But they do have lots of other platforms too.

Mansion House counts too as both of the remaining usable platforms are on the same side. However the middle platform still exists and is not fenced off but the track has been removed. But this one probably counts.

So there are up to fourteen like this on the London Underground depending on your definition.

Thanks! I was too tired/lazy to mentally take myself round the system station by station to try to think of them all! And even if I had, I'd certainly have forgotten St Pauls and Chancery Lane. And I'd have overlooked Mansion House.

Though I think you've forgotten Stamford Brook on the District? [Interesting also in that it's the only one of the four between Acton Town and Hammersmith where the Piccadilly can either not stop at all or can stop in both directions, having a platform access one way only here. Not that they do stop of course...] Perhaps the anomaly is from generations ago when the lines were paired by destination not by direction, and after this changed it was possible to squeeze an extra platform on the north side of the tracks, but not possible to slew the lines to get a second island platform in. This lack of symmetry always annoyed me when I was a toddler and went through on the Piccadilly every week to visit relatives.

And - has anyone mentioned the Overground platforms at Clapham Junction - conceptually debatable in this context?

 

[busestrains]

Thanks! I was too tired/lazy to mentally take myself round the system station by station to try to think of them all! And even if I had, I'd certainly have forgotten St Pauls and Chancery Lane. And I'd have overlooked Mansion House.

Though I think you've forgotten Stamford Brook on the District? [Interesting also in that it's the only one of the four between Acton Town and Hammersmith where the Piccadilly can either not stop at all or can stop in both directions, having a platform access one way only here. Not that they do stop of course...] Perhaps the anomaly is from generations ago when the lines were paired by destination not by direction, and after this changed it was possible to squeeze an extra platform on the north side of the tracks, but not possible to slew the lines to get a second island platform in. This lack of symmetry always annoyed me when I was a toddler and went through on the Piccadilly every week to visit relatives.

And - has anyone mentioned the Overground platforms at Clapham Junction - conceptually debatable in this context?

Yes indeed i had forgot about Stamford Brook too. Good spot there. Yes in terms of the District Line services both platforms at Stamford Brook are on the same side. So indeed Stamford Brook might well count for this thread too. I am not sure if that middle platform at Stamford Brook has ever been used as even on the rare occasion when those all stations Piccadilly Line stoppers ran during engineering works in the past they used the outer tracks instead.

I suppose it is a little bit different to what this thread is asking but i made a thread about stations like Stamford Brook a few months ago:

Trivia: Stations on four track lines that have platforms on three of the lines.

Almost all stations in the UK on a four track line will either have platforms on two of the lines or on all four of the lines. However there are a couple of rare examples where three of the lines have a track and only one of the four lines has a through track without a platform. There is another...

www.railforums.co.uk

There are a couple of other non symmetrical stations just like Stamford Brook on the National Rail network such as Hatfield and West Byfleet and a few others.

 

[Purple Train]

Some of the stations on the Glasgow Subway would qualify - Ibrox, Buchanan Street, and Hillhead as far as I can tell.