Trivia: Split-level stations on the National Rail network

[subk2010]

Just doing a trip plan around Birmingham and find 2 split-level stations: Lichfield Trent Valley & Tamworth. The layout is in T shape or L shape above the surface. Are any other stations like these elsewhere in UK?

PS: St Pancras In'tl, Glasgow Central and Glasgow Queen St came to my mind just before I decide to post. Indeed they are split-level stations, but some of the platforms are underground. It can be counted as another category of split-level stations. As for London Bridge and Portsmouth & Southsea, platform levels are splited but not as typical as Lichfield Trent Valley.

PPS: Lots of guys were discussing 2 adjacent "Split-level" stations with different names, like Dalston Jn and Dalston Kingsland, Waterloo and Waterloo East. They are, of course, but I do want to focus on split-level stations with the same name (same name historically is welcomed, or "Low (High) Level ).

 

[Peter0124]

Liverpool Lime St has a low level on one of the Merseyrail lines

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Shotton has high level and low level platforms, the tracks crossing at right angles.

Moorfields in Liverpool has low level and deep level platforms.

 

[fkofilee]

Portsmouth & Southsea
London Bridge might count too...

 

[Timmyd]

Retford

 

[Elecman]

Smethwick Galton Bridge

 

[gabrielhj07]

Paddington if you count the Elizabeth Line platforms

 

[snowball]

Manchester Picc (mainline platforms above street level) has Metrolink in the undercroft (at street level).

Edit: sorry, not National Rail.

 

[Watershed]

Just doing a trip plan around Birmingham and find 2 split-level stations: Lichfield Trent Valley & Tamworth. Are any other stations like these elsewhere in UK?

PS: St Pancras In'tl, Glasgow Central and Glasgow Queen St came to my mind just before I decide to post. Indeed they are split-level stations, but some of the platforms are underground. It can be counted as another category of split-level stations.

Worcestershire Parkway. Bletchley will also qualify once the new EWR platforms open, as will Tempsford/St Neots South.

Historically, London Bridge (until the Thameslink "2000" rebuild) and Middlewood also had split levels. The latter being perhaps the most surprising, essentially a station built solely because it was the point where the Manchester-Buxton and Manchester-Macclesfield via Rose Hill Marple routes intersected - and yet it remains open to this day, despite being in the middle of nowhere.

Warrington Bank Quay also looks set to have Low Level platforms according to the latest NPR plans.

Stratford also had Low Level through platforms for the route to North Woolwich. They were closed in December 2006 as part of the conversion of the line to the DLR. There are still Low Level platforms, but they are now served by the DLR and Underground.

 

[subk2010]

Manchester Picc (mainline platforms above street level) has Metrolink in the undercroft (at street level).

Metrolink is not part of the NR system

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Liverpool Central also has platforms on two levels.

 

[4F89]

Worcestershire Parkway. Bletchley will also qualify once the new EWR platforms open, as will Tempsford/St Neots South.

Historically, London Bridge (until the Thameslink "2000" rebuild) and Middlewood also had split levels. The latter being perhaps the most surprising, essentially a station built solely because it was the point where the Manchester-Buxton and Manchester-Macclesfield via Rose Hill Marple routes intersected - and yet it remains open to this day, despite being in the middle of nowhere.

Warrington Bank Quay also looks set to have Low Level platforms according to the latest NPR plans.

Stratford also had Low Level through platforms for the route to North Woolwich. They were closed in December 2006 as part of the conversion of the line to the DLR. There are still Low Level platforms, but they are now served by the DLR and Underground.

Warrington BQ is separate from the other Warrington, not H/L levels

 

[Watershed]

Warrington BQ is separate from the other Warrington, not H/L levels

I'm aware of that, but it is due to receive Low Level platforms as part of the new Manchester-Liverpool high speed route.

 

[4F89]

I'm aware of that, but it is due to receive Low Level platforms as part of the new Manchester-Liverpool high speed route.

Many moons away is that

 

[ls2270]

Ebbsfleet and Willesden Junction are other split level stations.

 

[swt_passenger]

Worcestershire Parkway. Bletchley will also qualify once the new EWR platforms open, as will Tempsford/St Neots South.

Historically, London Bridge (until the Thameslink "2000" rebuild) and Middlewood also had split levels...

I would have said London Bridge still has the same two levels as before? Just there’s more high level platforms than low following the rebuild?

 

[ls2270]

Another is Liverpool South Parkway.

 

[507020]

Middlewood also had split levels. The latter being perhaps the most surprising, essentially a station built solely because it was the point where the Manchester-Buxton and Manchester-Macclesfield via Rose Hill Marple routes intersected - and yet it remains open to this day, despite being in the middle of nowhere.

Warrington Bank Quay also looks set to have Low Level platforms according to the latest NPR plans.

Rather than simply being in the middle of nowhere, is it not in the middle of a wood?

Warrington Bank Quay did originally have low level platforms on the Fiddlers Ferry-Lymm route to Manchester.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Could an argument be made as regards Waterloo and Waterloo East being on separate levels, or should they perhaps be considered as being separate stations?

 

[subk2010]

Could an argument be made as regards Waterloo and Waterloo East being on separate levels, or should they perhaps be considered as being separate stations?

They are 2 separate stations in this discussion

 

[Mcr Warrior]

They are 2 separate stations in this discussion

Your thread! I'll defer to that.

Another historic example was at East Grinstead, which once had both higher and lower level platforms.

 

[Magdalia]

Could an argument be made as regards Waterloo and Waterloo East being on separate levels, or should they perhaps be considered as being separate stations?

And presumably the same would apply with West Hampstead and West Hampstead Thameslink?

But Hackney Downs and Hackney Central are different, because it is possible to move between the high level (Hackney Downs) and the low level (Hackney Central), without passing through any barriers.

Highbury and Islington definitely qualifies.

 

[Killingworth]

Retford

 

[brewer85]

On the DLR, Canning Town has two levels, both above ground.

Edit: As pointed out below, not National Rail!

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Retford

Retford

@Timmyd beat you to it in post #5.

On the DLR, Canning Town has two levels, both above ground.

Does that count as National Rail?

 

[MadMac]

Shotton.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Shotton.

See post #3.

 

[Bill57p9]

Stratford, until the curtailment of the North London Line

Heath - although technically two adjacent stations.

Historically Nottingham London Road?
And on the subject of Nottingham, though not all National Rail, Nottingham (Midland) has the tram stop on the former Great Central alignment

Again if you can forgive a non-Network Rail example: Minffordd

 

[30907]

They are 2 separate stations

And in any case are on the same level.

 

[Gloster]

Historically Templecombe.