List of stations with one track but platforms either side

[Pompey00]

can people help me list stations what’s got a track but platforms both sides whether they are both in use or only the 1 for example.

Guildford has a platform both sides but only 1 side is able to be used due to the 3rd rail.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Yeovil Pen Mill (platform 1 & 2 serve the same track, 2 no longer used)
Platform 2a(?) at Sheffield Midland

 

[Magdalia]

I can't believe this has not been done before.

Finsbury Park has two, platforms 2/3 and 6/7, with doors opening on the platform 2 and 7 sides.

 

[Falcon1200]

Carlisle Platform 2.

 

[Pompey00]

Yeovil Pen Mill (platform 1 & 2 serve the same track, 2 no longer used)
Platform 2a(?) at Sheffield Midland

Thankyou not sure why stations have this tbh

I can't believe this has not been done before.

Finsbury Park has two, platforms 2/3 and 6/7, with doors opening on the platform 2 and 7 sides.

As in not been asked? And Thankyou

Carlisle Platform 2.

Thankyou

 

[signed]

Outside of the UK, Paris Gare de Lyon has Hall 1 with all except 2 mainline platforms (A to E) in that configuration

 

[Shimbleshanks]

Norwood Junction has one - I think it's platforms 1&2 - the track nearest the street exit, anyway.

 

[CEN60]

Greenford Road Single Line - Platform Either Side (Flanked by LUL I think)

 

[The exile]

Wantage Road Single Line - Platform Either Side (Flanked by LUL I think)

Didn’t know that LUL got out that far!!!!??

 

[swt_passenger]

I can't believe this has not been done before.

A 2019 version ran to 3 pages:

Trivia: Stations that have two platforms for one track.

What stations have two platforms that serve one track? I can think of the following ones so far: National Rail: • Banbury • Edinburgh Waverley • Finsbury Park • Greenford • Guildford • London Euston • Norwood Junction • Yeovil Pen Mill I believe that Ascot and High Wycombe used to but they no...

www.railforums.co.uk

 

[DJ_K666]

Templecombe

 

[Western Sunset]

Templecombe

Are you sure? Don't think so.
Lots on TfL eg Morden for starters.

 

[DJ_K666]

Are you sure? Don't think so.
Lots on TfL eg Morden for starters.

It's a relatively recent one. The additional platform was added to allow disabled accessibility.

Templecombe Station 40th anniversary of reopening marked - BBC News

Local residents fought to get the station reopened after the Beeching cuts closure.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Farigiraf]

Tower Gateway

 

[Western Sunset]

Yes, thanks, but I don't think folks can normally access it for travel reasons?

 

[swt_passenger]

In the 2019 thread I linked, I think it was noted that although some double faced platforms do have two signed numbers, such as at Guildford, one is not normally used nowadays.

Others such as the now removed inset bays on the main island at Reading, the old P6 and P7, only had a number signed on one side. But people reckoned with slam door stock passengers used both sides anyway.

Southampton P5 was at one time a passenger platform, with a short parcels platform on the outside at the buffers. Would that count as an example?

Derby had a two sided bay with only one side signed before the last remodelling.

 

[Topological]

Yeovil Pen Mill (platform 1 & 2 serve the same track, 2 no longer used)
Platform 2a(?) at Sheffield Midland

Platform 7 at Sheffield is a bay which works as well.

I think that allowing bays opens a lot of possibilities.

 

[Gloster]

I was in Guildford last week and there were large ‘Do not alight this side’ or ‘…here’ on the old platform 7.

 

[CEN60]

Didn’t know that LUL got out that far!!!!??

Sorry Should have said Greenford Road (working on too many projects!!!!)

 

[Shimbleshanks]

Changing the subject slightly, is it possible for trains to have the doors on both sides open simultaneously or is there a feature that prevents that happening? If you could have both sets open at the same time, alert passengers could use the train to cross between platforms instead of the footbridge or subway.

 

[zwk500]

Changing the subject slightly, is it possible for trains to have the doors on both sides open simultaneously or is there a feature that prevents that happening? If you could have both sets open at the same time, alert passengers could use the train to cross between platforms instead of the footbridge or subway.

I believe some stock can open doors both sides (and is done at e.g. Stratford) but some have an interlock, although happy to be corrected on that. Due to additional despatch required if both sides are open I would guess it's preferred to only open one side unless there are interchange or accessibility reasons to open both.

 

[snowball]

Changing the subject slightly, is it possible for trains to have the doors on both sides open simultaneously or is there a feature that prevents that happening? If you could have both sets open at the same time, alert passengers could use the train to cross between platforms instead of the footbridge or subway.

Others will know better but I've definitely seen a photo of an LU train with doors open onto platforms both sides.

And while on the subject of non-mainline, Metrolink has a line with platforms both sides at Manchester Victoria, but I think they are not opened simultaneously.

 

[Pompey00]

As Guildford accidently opens wrong side sometimes which is the 3rd rail side and it’s dangerous and the guard can get in trouble

 

[Alex_L33]

And while on the subject of non-mainline, Metrolink has a line with platforms both sides at Manchester Victoria, but I think they are not opened simultaneously.

They are, as far as I recall. The central platform is usually used to turn around trams to/from from the Airport. I think the doors were released on both sides simultaneously last time I travelled that way.

 

[zero]

Canary Wharf DLR

 

[lxfe_mxtterz]

There's also Ascot with platforms on both sides, although a fence has now been built along the platform 2 side.

 

[Ashley Hill]

Templecombe

Are you sure? Don't think so.

The track at Templecombe is on the up formation next to the original up platform. A few years ago the old down platform was extended out over the empty down formation creating a new platform. The train now has a platform either side. Only the new platform is used.

 

[birchesgreen]

Morden, trains have doors opening both sides as well i think

 

[Dr_Intoxicated]

Changing the subject slightly, is it possible for trains to have the doors on both sides open simultaneously or is there a feature that prevents that happening? If you could have both sets open at the same time, alert passengers could use the train to cross between platforms instead of the footbridge or subway.

There's also Ascot with platforms on both sides, although a fence has now been built along the platform 2 side.

Yes and before they built the fence doors were activated on both sides at Ascot

 

[MarkyT]

can people help me list stations what’s got a track but platforms both sides whether they are both in use or only the 1 for example.

Guildford has a platform both sides but only 1 side is able to be used due to the 3rd rail.

I don't think it 'just' the 3rd rail. That trains don't officially call on the wrong side doesn't prevent passengers on the platform waiting for trains from other faces falling from it onto the live rail when there's no train there. Closing doors on both sides after a station dwell can take longer and may be be more risky. In unlocked slam door days there was little staff could do about people getting off on the 'wrong' side. I don't think anywhere on the mainline in UK has this design explicitly for capacity management, but elsewhere and on metros particularly two faces are employed at extremely busy stops where there's a lot of passenger turnover, often using one face for arrivals and the other for departures with phased door operation so the exit side doors open prior to the entry side. It is sometimes referred to as the 'Spanish solution'.