SargeNpton
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To add to the list of stations with staggered platforms either side of a level crossing: Habrough in north Lincolnshire.
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Trivia - how many stations have a road bisecting their platforms and hence a level crossing within the station
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Three out of four consecutive stations on the Southport - Wigan Wallgate line have this configuration:
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But this isn't what is being asked for.
It is simply not possible to have what the OP asked about with high platforms - therefore nowhere on National Rail.
In low platform countries there are quite a few examples of interruptions to platform continuity - sometimes for road crossings, sometimes a railway line crossing.
On my first foreign rail trip (1965 - aged 9) I saw an example of the latter at St. Raphael in the south of France. A siding ran straight through the platform - seemed most strange to my eyes!
The staggered platform discussion is interesting, but OT.
In low platform countries there are quite a few examples of interruptions to platform continuity - sometimes for road crossings, sometimes a railway line crossing.
On my first foreign rail trip (1965 - aged 9) I saw an example of the latter at St. Raphael in the south of France. A siding ran straight through the platform - seemed most strange to my eyes!
The staggered platform discussion is interesting, but OT.
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When I went up to Lowestoft in the late 1960s, my dad told me to look out for the level crossing in the platform at Halesworth. He must have read about it as he'd never been along that line. I had a look when the train stopped there, but it was clear that it was out of use, as it looked rusty, and there was a wire fence across the road.
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On the Tokyo Oimachi line in Tokyo, Kuhombutsu station contrained by level crossings at both ends (I can't remember which one it is). When some of the trains on the line were extended, they built a small section of platform the other side of the level Crossings, so that the guard could get out from the back cab in order to close the doors. SDO keeps the other doors in the final carriage (which stops over the level crossings) from opening.
75A
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I was catching up with reading the excellent Southern Way magazine this morning and came across 2 examples, 1 of which I'd heard about (Petersfield) and 1 I hadn't @ East Farleigh on the Maidstone to Strood line.
On page 81 of edition 61 is a photograph & caption for Petersfield and on page 16 of edition 62 is a picture and caption for East Farleigh.
On page 81 of edition 61 is a photograph & caption for Petersfield and on page 16 of edition 62 is a picture and caption for East Farleigh.
Sun Chariot
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I'm intrigued at Petersfield - the town and the station were regular haunts for me; and t'interweb tells me the station opened in 1859 with 4 platforms: 2 for the Up/Down Main, another for the Midhurst/Pulborough branch and a fourth for a coal handling facility.
Was the staggered platform (signalbox side of the crossing) for the old branch?
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StoneRoad
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Wylam, on the Tyne Valley line has staggered platforms, with a level crossing between them, immediately north of the level crossing the road then crosses the bridge over the River Tyne ...
75A
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I'd heard about it in the dim and distant but wasn't sure, so I'll quote the caption that goes with picture on page 81 of issue 61.
'The simple wooden platform that served the push/pull service to and from Pulborough was located slightly north of the main station and across the level crossing that serves station Road'.
Stanford-le-Hope had a wheeled platform section from 1881 to 1918. A platform extension could only go over the level crossing so a mobile wooden platform section was introduced.
The 1918 station rebuild moved everything to the other side of the crossing.
I can't find any pics online but there are some in the Tilbury Loop Middletons book.
The 1918 station rebuild moved everything to the other side of the crossing.
I can't find any pics online but there are some in the Tilbury Loop Middletons book.
Sun Chariot
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Thanks - that ties in with what I've read. It's overgrown now
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Many ,many years ago I was in Pershawar - Pkinstan.
And the old steam train up the Khyber pass to the border with Afghanistan was running - sort of.
And of course I was on it, and on the footplate of the loco with the driver - who spoke pretty good English. After a lot of huffing and puffing we arrived at the border station Landi Kotal I think.
And on the descent back - on the outskirts of Peshawar we came to a prolonged stop. I asked the drive whe we were stopped so long. "Aeroplane landing sir". And inded he was of course correct - railway crossed the runway of the airport - and so we waited. And indeed a plane did land and crossed right infront of use. So here is a case of a railway and runway bisecting. Many,many years ago - but it's in my mind as yesterday
And the old steam train up the Khyber pass to the border with Afghanistan was running - sort of.
And of course I was on it, and on the footplate of the loco with the driver - who spoke pretty good English. After a lot of huffing and puffing we arrived at the border station Landi Kotal I think.
And on the descent back - on the outskirts of Peshawar we came to a prolonged stop. I asked the drive whe we were stopped so long. "Aeroplane landing sir". And inded he was of course correct - railway crossed the runway of the airport - and so we waited. And indeed a plane did land and crossed right infront of use. So here is a case of a railway and runway bisecting. Many,many years ago - but it's in my mind as yesterday
Yes, you can see on the Google Maps image that they’re signposted for opposite directions.
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At Petersfield the Midhurst bay was on the east side of the line north of the station. It was not on the main Portsmouth line, but on a short dead-end bay: trains from Midhurst were separated from the main part of the station by the buffers and the public road, while passenger trains on the main line could not use the Midhurst platform. A train from Midhurst that needed to use the main Down platform could either run straight off the branch into the main Down platform without running through the Midhurst bay, or reverse out of the Midhurst bay back onto the branch and then run into the main station past, but separated by one track from, the bay platform. Simply, it was a separate platform, not two split by a level crossing.
On a related theme, Waterloo East originally opened as Waterloo Junction, with a rail connection from LSWR's Waterloo and the SER. There was a section of platform which allowed foot access between the two stations which was trundled out of the way when a connecting train was due. So this is a case of a running line (rather than a road) bisecting the platform.
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Thank you
The Londonderry line still goes across RAF Ballkelly’s runway, though the runway is fenced off and shut now.
When the level crossing was in use, Whittlesford only had short platforms London side of the level crossing. The platforms were extended after the level crossing was closed.
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Does Attleborough on the Breckland count?
..and because the line was originally right hand running, both platforms are BEFORE the level crossing, ensuring the barriers have to close a little earlier..
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Mitcham Eastfields is good because trains in both directions arrive at the platforms after the level crossing, allowing it to be opened, rather than what seems to have become standard procedure these days to close a crossing even when a train has to stop at the platform first (i.e. rather than rely on a platform starter signal to protect the crossing, which is its function).
Believe there is an airport in New Zealand that also has a railway across it.
Didn't a station in Dover have a section of moveable platform to allow a rail spur to some docks?
Drifting off topic but, sort of.
The airport is Gisborne, with the railway in question now mothballed, albeit not formally closed.
I travelled across the runway in 1987, the year before passenger services were withdrawn - freight lasted longer, but was seen off by storm damage. It was certainly an interesting thing to do!
Not unlike driving across the middle of the runway on the road from Spain into Gibraltar.
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Birmingham New Street originally had this and retains a right of way through the station
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Does East Farleigh still have staggered platforms either side of the level crossing?
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I would say so. Either side of the Farleigh Lane crossing.