Derby Platform 7 - Why isn't it used? (and other unused platforms)

[SteveM70]

Rochdale platform 2 is only used for disruption turnbacks these days

 

[BeijingDave]

A bunch of platforms at Stirling I assume, given it has 9 numbered platforms (2-10).

Edit: apparently 4-5 bays are unused and 7-8 are rarely used. A brief look at its services suggests it could easily cope with 4 platforms rather than 9.

 

[mcmad]

A bunch of platforms at Stirling I assume, given it has 9 numbered platforms (2-10).

Edit: apparently 4-5 bays are unused and 7-8 are rarely used. A brief look at its services suggests it could easily cope with 4 platforms rather than 9.

All the bay platforms are used overnight for stabling stock at Stirling. 7&8 were used after the post electrification service uplift but little use post COVID.

 

[Towers]

Preston Platform 7

What is it about the number 7!

 

[Sunset route]

Norwood Junction Platform 7 hasn’t been used since Three Bridges ASC took over the area in the early 1980s and maybe long before that.

 

[Bill57p9]

Corrour "platform 2", or doesn't that count as a platform??

 

[Llandudno]

Platform 5 at Llandudno Junction has railway style signage but is actually a grotty bus shelter in the station car park area offering ‘interchange’ with non coordinated bus services!

 

[norbitonflyer]

How often is this a problem? Trains wouldn't ordinarily terminate at Stockport in either direction.

Except the weekly Stalybridge flyer, which does indeed use 3A

 

[zwk500]

Except the weekly Stalybridge flyer, which does indeed use 3A

A 1tpw Parliamentary. Oh however will it cope.

 

[Western 52]

P3 at Bridgend is rarely used, mainly to terminate Maesteg trains during disruption or engineering works. The track layout does not allow access from the main line.

 

[AndyW33]

What is it about the number 7!

Same basic problem at Preston and Derby. At Derby Platform 7 isn't protected against movements from the depot, at Preston there are no traps protecting other platform roads from unauthorised movements out of 7

 

[richard1976]

Don't think anything stops at Platform 2 at Ardwick now, think it only sees through trains

 

[ls2270]

Bay Platform 2 at Fareham has no scheduled passenger trains, but is frequently used to recess late running Southern trains that have terminated at Fareham and during engineering possessions.

 

[Kite159]

Don't think anything stops at Platform 2 at Ardwick now, think it only sees through trains

Both platforms get used, one train each way a day. Random weekday

Realtime Trains | Departures from Ardwick all day on 10/01/2023

Train information at Ardwick all day on 10/01/2023. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.

www.realtimetrains.co.uk

 

[Elecman]

Same basic problem at Preston and Derby. At Derby Platform 7 isn't protected against movements from the depot, at Preston there are no traps protecting other platform roads from unauthorised movements out of 7

Nor any protection out of the sidings by Corporation Street depot

 

[william.martin]

Apologies if these have already been mentioned however platform 3 at Wellington and 6 at Wolverhampton are very rarely used.
I have lived 7 miles from Wellington station for 11 years and have only seen a public service use it once, an early terminating 170 in the summer of this year.
The only time I have seen Wolverhampton (wich I have to visit regularly) platform 6 in use was when I was onboard another (yep it was this long ago) London Midland170 wich terminated early for a broken rail.

 

[The Planner]

Apologies if these have already been mentioned however platform 3 at Wellington and 6 at Wolverhampton are very rarely used.
I have lived 7 miles from Wellington station for 11 years and have only seen a public service use it once, an early terminating 170 in the summer of this year.
The only time I have seen Wolverhampton (wich I have to visit regularly) platform 6 in use was when I was onboard another (yep it was this long ago) London Midland170 wich terminated early for a broken rail.

6 at Wolves is an operational pig to use.

 

[InOban]

Oban platform 4 - as far as I am aware, only used for ECS when 2 trains end up in Oban at the same time, which is unusual especially in passenger service (RHTT uses it and possibly to stable the stock from the summer Sunday Edinburgh turn)

Two trains are in Oban every Saturday and Sunday afternoon throughout the year. The 16.11 departures leave from 4 on both days. It's also used by excursion trains.

 

[MadMac]

A bunch of platforms at Stirling I assume, given it has 9 numbered platforms (2-10).

Edit: apparently 4-5 bays are unused and 7-8 are rarely used. A brief look at its services suggests it could easily cope with 4 platforms rather than 9.

4 & 5 aren’t signalled for passenger use. Is there anything that terminates at Stirling these days?

 

[BoroAndy]

Scarborough P5 has been very rarely used over the past umpteen years, but the new timetable when ref against RTT shows it now has 1 in and 1 out every day for TPE. Trying to imagine a 68+Mk5 squeezed up in that corner.

 

[TT-ONR-NRN]

Bay Platform 2 at Fareham has no scheduled passenger trains, but is frequently used to recess late running Southern trains that have terminated at Fareham and during engineering possessions.

Yes, I was treated to a 5 carriage 158 on my return to Cardiff on Tuesday, waiting for me on Platform 2 due to engineering works between Portsmouth and Cosham

I don't think anyone's mentioned the bay at Kingston, which is typically only used during planned engineering work on the route to London Waterloo via Norbiton.

 

[LowLevel]

Thanks. I assumed that would probably be the case.

Platform 2 on the other hand...

Of course since the timetable change Crewe platform 2 now has the booked EMR services all day

 

[D365]

Chesterfield bi-directional platform 3 only used in times of disruption or engineering blockades.

5 booked services daily (SX) for platform 3 at Chesterfield.

Indeed I’ve stopped at Chesterfield P3 on a regular service train.

 

[norbitonflyer]

Yes, I was treated to a 5 carriage 158 on my return to Cardiff on Tuesday, waiting for me on Platform 2 due to engineering works between Portsmouth and Cosham

I don't think anyone's mentioned the bay at Kingston, which is typically only used during planned engineering work on the route to London Waterloo via Norbiton.

There are scheduled services that use it - end-of-day services terminating at Kingston from the Twickenham direction, and the occasional random decision to terminate a late-running Waterloo-bound service there for operational convenience. It won't take more than 8 cars though, so there will be much less of this when if the Class 701s come in to service. (The signalling now allows Platform 2 to be used for reversal)

 

[150249]

Exeter St David's Platform 2 was never used in service. It was just an extra siding. Now that the Okehampton service has come back, it gets use every now and then.

 

[Eloise]

It's Platform 2A.
I've caught a Southern train from there and it didn't seem unusual at the time. I nearly missed it because I interpreted the signs for 2A as meaning the South end of Platform 2. Because it is short, 2A is not particularly noticeable from Platform 2, it looks like the South end of Platform 1, if that makes sense.

Platform 5 at Northampton is a sort of island with a track on the other side, though rusted and never used (I think I can remember correctly)

Platform 5 at Northampton had some booked workings early morning and evenings but 4 was used for the Birmingham turnbacks until the timetable change. Platform 5 used during disruption or a set swap. There is a line adjacent to Platform 5 (heard it called the Horse Dock) which is very rusty and never seen anything on it. Be challenging given greenery in the four foot at the country end from memory.

Since the timetable change in December I can't see any passengers trains using Platform 2 at Northampton now. I only swept TRUST for a weekday. A few ECS but all northbound passenger services use Platform 3 or some early morning departures use the Platforms 4 / 5.

 

[fkofilee]

Bay Platform 2 at Fareham has no scheduled passenger trains, but is frequently used to recess late running Southern trains that have terminated at Fareham and during engineering possessions.

Seen GWR services terminate in the bay too! Although quite a while ago.

Also York Platform 2 is rarely used from my understanding for passenger services.

 

[zwk500]

Also York Platform 2 is rarely used from my understanding for passenger services.

Think it's seen a lot more booked to use it when the York to Scarborough frequency was lifted up (or planned to be)

 

[yorkie]

Have we exhausted the list now?

Also York Platform 2 is rarely used from my understanding for passenger services.

Around half the trains to Scarborough use it currently.

 

[Class800]

Exeter St Davids platform 2 is very rarely used in routine service (I am not prepared to say never as haven't time to check all running records). It was used initially for Okehampton services but these now usually run through from Exeter Central using platform 3