D365
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Similar situation at Huntingdon. Platforms 2 and 3 on the slow lines can take a 12 car EMU, or an IC225 during times of disruption. Platform 1, the Up bay, only takes a four car EMU.
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Trivia - two-platform stations which have huge variation in platform length
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Similar situation at Huntingdon. Platforms 2 and 3 on the slow lines can take a 12 car EMU, or an IC225 during times of disruption. Platform 1, the Up bay, only takes a four car EMU.
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DorkingMain
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That particular platform is signalled as two separate ones
aliceh
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And though it's not a two-platform station, there's a fair bit of a variance between platform 1, which can only hold a 4-car train (and only 20m carriages IIRC) and the other platforms which are all capable of handling 12 23m cars.
richard1976
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Think one of the platforms at Morecambe is a bit longer than the other one
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/requ...68221/attach/3/eaXXp.pdf?cookie_passthrough=1 has the " Timetable Planning Rules Anglia 2019 TIMETABLE Version 4.1".
It says that the Down platform at Haddiscoe is 182m (85m in use). The Up platform is 46m long.
At Woodbridge the Down is 129m, (53m is in use), the Up is 142m (130m is in use).
That's the old station that's not in use now, the new station is one platform with two faces one is a bit shorter about 40'.
Ulverston the north bound platform 1 is quite a bit shorter than platforms 2 & 3 (island) platforms but a lot of these platforms are not in use
john prytherch
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At Abergavenny Monmouth Road, the up platform was extended c.1960 to its 12 coach length, running right up to the section signal (5). Similar extension of the down platform (which remains at its 5 coach length) was not possible because the connections from the down main to the back platform and from the back platform to the down goods loop were in the way. It could not be extended southward because of the barrow crossing and the water tank tower. I was told that the back platform was used for one passenger departure each week, to Pontypool on market days, until about the 1950s.
John Prytherch.
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I believe that some original stations in the greater Aldershot area (North Camp is an obvious example), were built with long platforms to accomodate Troop trains. Ash was probably built accordingly.
North Downs now only requires 3 car 165 (soon to be 4 car 769) Ash & Wanborough are serviced by 4 car 450.
Being very pedantic, platform 8 at Guildford is shorter than all the other through (12 car) platforms (southern section has a ramp and railing rather than a full length platform face).
Nottingham59
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That's because there used to be a siding coming off the down line after the bridge at Howsell Road, and heading towards where the fire station is now. See https://maps.nls.uk/view/207351521 for how it was in c.1950
Sprinter107
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Yes
Yes, i saw a picture of it, think it may have been the Worcestershire railways site.
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