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Are there any trains that are scheduled to call at Platform 3 at Shawford?
Are there any trains that are scheduled to call at Platform 3 at Shawford?
Most of the time, that single arrival booked for platform 2 arrives on platform 3 anyway, prior to running ECS to Fratton.
I can't understand why they relaid all the track on platform 2 during the recent closure, given that there are no scheduled services. Seems like a waste of track and concrete sleepers! I think they missed a trick - should have made it a working bi-directional platform by running it on into platform 3 and sticking a crossover northbound at the Portsmouth end. This would allow the frequently late-running Southern services to be terminated without having to shunt into the Netley line, usually with a GWR right up their chuffer!
Hasn't been mentioned and isn't National Rail, but Mudchute P3? According to Geoff Marshall of Londonist at least.
Isn't 5 at Moor St the one that used to have the steam engine in it? If so, it certainly didn't used to have a connection, but it may have changed since I was last round there
Platform 2 at Hartlepool (the bay platform)
Don't think I've ever seen anything use P3 at Worcester Shrub Hill other than for stabling.
I think its used by East Midlands Trains for the first and last trains of the day.
Don't know for definite but Skegness has 4 usable platforms and only an hourly service so I imagine not all 4 of those are used?
Platform 7 at Sheffield only seems to get used when things aren't running on time and other platforms are busy
Mentioned by tsr in post #4...
IIRC the P2 track had many sleepers that were completely shot, (and a few years ago I'd never seen such a large number of missing keys), but I think if they wanted to do a proper job of the formation through P3 it was probably best to do both sides anyway. Someone said they renewed the drains from the island? I noticed they re-used the original buffers though, modernising to latest standards would probably have meant another shortened operational length.
Many suggestions of adding a crossover at the Portsmouth end have been made over the years, and AIUI the bridge piers were designed to allow for a different wider steel deck to be fitted easily in future, i.e. they could have both P2 and P3 lines extending round the curve without serious rebuilding work.
Platform 2 at Fuengirola.
At the end of the Málaga Cercanias Line 1 (Spain)Where?!
Up and down fast platforms at Petts Wood, Chislehurst, Elmstead Woods and Grove Park. Up fast at Hither Green afaik.
Does anything use platforms 6 & 7 at Wimbledon or are they just used then the tennis is on
I dont think Platform 3 at Newhaven Harbour has any trains scheduled to call there? Is the track at this platform even still in use as it looks very overgrown?
It doesn't exist! Are you perhaps thinking of Newhaven Marine station, the status of which is really rather ridiculous! A search for "Newhaven Marine" on the forums will show that it has probably the highest ratio of mentions compared with tickets sold!
No there is definitely a Platform 3 at Newhaven Harbour (not Newhaven Marine). I was just there yesterday. Platform 1 and Platform 2 are the main platforms while Platform 3 is a bay platform towards the North end of the Platform 2. There is still a track in place but it is very overgrown (similar to Norwood Junction Platform 7).
No there is definitely a Platform 3 at Newhaven Harbour (not Newhaven Marine). I was just there yesterday. Platform 1 and Platform 2 are the main platforms while Platform 3 is a bay platform towards the North end of the Platform 2. There is still a track in place but it is very overgrown (similar to Norwood Junction Platform 7).
Quail shows what you described as a padlocked [out of use], non-electrified siding that has been as such since at least 1994, it definitely is not a platform. Photographs of Newhaven Marine from way back when show its sole platform as being labeled platform 3, in effect treated as the third platform of Harbour.
Edit - the SA doesn't even acknowledge such a siding existing.