Why?Euston
Manchester Airport is getting its platforms extended to allow longer trains and more permissive working.Manchester Airport and Manchester Piccadilly.
Liverpool Central Northern Line
Frequently get this on the way into Bristol - arrive on time, get stuck waiting for a platform, pull in a few minutes late. Though Bristol doesn't exactly look short on platforms? Hopefully they don't need to expand it given they're now building an entrance at the other side where a new platform could go...Leeds could do with additional through platforms. Every time I travel through there I get the "we're just being held at a red signal outside the station while we wait for a platform to become available" announcement.
I agree, or at a bare minimum, they need to make the existing platform wider somehow. Far too narrow and overcrowded as it is currently.
Oxford is getting one, its running late, but its getting one.Oxford
Bristol suffers from the fact that there are so many trains coming which need to cross the West end throat at least once as their route involves reversal. That said, I remember being “told” many years ago that Bristol panel couldn’t cope with more than one movement in the station area at once. I’m sure that was a joke but “waiting for a platform” at the East end was not uncommon even at 1980s traffic levels (I know there were 2 fewer platforms….)Frequently get this on the way into Bristol - arrive on time, get stuck waiting for a platform, pull in a few minutes late. Though Bristol doesn't exactly look short on platforms? Hopefully they don't need to expand it given they're now building an entrance at the other side where a new platform could go...
Cardiff Central could do with several more but other than re-excavating platform 5 which was filled in 50 years ago there is no roomExeter St Davids
Cardiff Central (?)
Southampton
Are you thinking of the east throat? There's a lot of trains coming from the north that then reverse and continue via BathBristol suffers from the fact that there are so many trains coming which need to cross the West end throat at least once as their route involves reversal. That said, I remember being “told” many years ago that Bristol panel couldn’t cope with more than one movement in the station area at once. I’m sure that was a joke but “waiting for a platform” at the East end was not uncommon even at 1980s traffic levels (I know there were 2 fewer platforms….)
Yes - silly me!Are you thinking of the east throat? There's a lot of trains coming from the north that then reverse and continue via Bath
I understand the east throat was recently redone as part of the four-tracking through Fulton and there are plans to redo the western side in a few years
Absolutely.Ipswich
I took the title to mean if there was space.Cardiff Central could do with several more but other than re-excavating platform 5 which was filled in 50 years ago there is no room
This station sort of is, P2 is being extended to 5 cars which will allow it to be better used.Exeter St Davids
As I understand it some more South-facing platforms would be useful too. I guess bays would be out of the question because of the consequences if a train's brakes were to fail on the incline.This station sort of is, P2 is being extended to 5 cars which will allow it to be better used.
On that subject, I'd like to add Exeter Central to my original list.Exeter St Davids
Cardiff Central (?)
Southampton