Continuous structure or continuous face?Going on from condor7 post about the smallest platform length on the network. What is the longest?
For what?It got a Guinness record
Pedantically this was the platform face that was in both Victoria and Exchange (the two stations were adjacent but one platform in effect connected the two)Formerly Manchester Victoria had a 2,238 ft platform, but obviously no longer.
The old through platform at Cambridge has never been especially long. In the old pre-powerbox age it was 1354 feet.How does Cambridge station measure up, these days?
I don't think it can be counted as a single platform any more as they've erected a fence along the platform edge alongside the scissors junction.How does Cambridge station measure up, these days?
Thanks. Not been there (Cambridge) for several years.I don't think it can be counted as a single platform any more as they've erected a fence along the platform edge alongside the scissors junction.
Was that the one where a train from the Cork(?) direction shot past on the next track and then set back across a crossover? I was on a train that did it (long ago!) but don't remember the platform as being particularly long..Slightly off topic, but how long was the platform at Limerick Junction? I think it may have been reduced when they added P4 though.
Yes that's the one! I've not been there since the 1990s, but two trains could use the platform at the same time.Was that the one where a train from the Cork(?) direction shot past on the next track and then set back across a crossover? I was on a train that did it (long ago!) but don't remember the platform as being particularly long..
I don't think it can be counted as a single platform any more as they've erected a fence along the platform edge alongside the scissors junction.
Was that the one where a train from the Cork(?) direction shot past on the next track and then set back across a crossover? I was on a train that did it (long ago!) but don't remember the platform as being particularly long..
1598ftWas that the one where a train from the Cork(?) direction shot past on the next track and then set back across a crossover? I was on a train that did it (long ago!) but don't remember the platform as being particularly long..
It was certainly a quirky layout! I remember arriving from Limerick into the bay at the south end. The train ran through to the south then reversed into the bay. It was loco hauled which made it more interesting.1598ft
The need to reverse in and out of the through platform was done away with in the 1967 rebuild.
The main platform has been truncated, and is now used only by Dublin bound trains, these use what was formerly the Cork platform loop - the Dublin section being removed in the 2007 rationalisation which also removed the 'back road' and the Waterford Bay. A new through platform on the Cork-bound running line was opened in 2019.
This is what it looks like - it separate platform 1 to the far end of it and platform 4 out of shot to the right. I think both platforms have been extended in recent years to take 12 coach trains.How does Cambridge station measure up, these days?
I don’t think any of those are continuous?How do the Liverpool Street ones compare, they seem to go on for ages as you come out of the station?
How do the Liverpool Street ones compare, they seem to go on for ages as you come out of the station?
At one time the station even had five lines going through it. Although I don't think any of them rhymed.It was certainly a quirky layout! I remember arriving from Limerick into the bay at the south end. The train ran through to the south then reversed into the bay. It was loco hauled which made it more interesting.
Substantial newspaper traffic. The layout would have facilitated more than one train (for different regional destinations) being loaded at the same time.I've always wondered at the rationale. Does any forum reader know? Was it to facilitate easier movement of passengers / parcels, between destinations served by each of the former LNWR and L&Y stations?
Traditionally I Believe it was the joint platform of Manchester Victoria and Manchester Exchange.Going on from condor7 post about the smallest platform length on the network. What is the longest?