Dr_Paul
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Following the recent thread 'Lines That Should Have Been Mainlines', how about one looking at lines which were built for double track but only a single track was laid?
One that comes to my mind is the Bluebell Line south of Horsted Keynes to Lewes, where the under and over bridges could accommodate double track (the company must have been optimistic to envisage the need for double track!). I also have an idea that some of the infrastructure of the Newtown to Machylleth line was built for double track, but I'm not sure.
We could expand this to examples where the infrastructure was built or extended for, say, four tracks, but it wasn't used, and other similar instances.
An example is Richmond station, where the rebuilding of the Windsor line station in the 1930s allowed for four through lines with two island platforms, but this was never done.
One that comes to my mind is the Bluebell Line south of Horsted Keynes to Lewes, where the under and over bridges could accommodate double track (the company must have been optimistic to envisage the need for double track!). I also have an idea that some of the infrastructure of the Newtown to Machylleth line was built for double track, but I'm not sure.
We could expand this to examples where the infrastructure was built or extended for, say, four tracks, but it wasn't used, and other similar instances.
An example is Richmond station, where the rebuilding of the Windsor line station in the 1930s allowed for four through lines with two island platforms, but this was never done.