Trivia: Stations on electrified lines that are only served by diesel trains

[Dan17H]

Theres a few in the South East.

 

[Surreytraveller]

The Ashford to Hastings Line starts off electrified, then becomes Diesel only, Southern Rails Diesel trains are the only ones who operate on it.

SouthEastern have electic trains at Ashford

 

[Dan17H]

SouthEastern have electic trains at Ashford

On that line they don't.

 

[Surreytraveller]

On that line they don't.

That's because it isn't electrified

 

[Dan17H]

That's because it isn't electrified

It is out of the platform they run from.

 

[Surreytraveller]

It is out of the platform they run from.

I've seen SouthEastern trains in that platform

 

[221129]

It is out of the platform they run from.

I very much think you're missing the point of the thread here.

 

[etr221]

What's the current position over the Hastings-Ore section?

 

[Trainfan2019]

Longport has at least one northern electric train stop there on weekdays early morning.

 

[Jonathan1990]

There's platform 8 at York Railway Station which has electric wires for an electric train but never gets any electric trains going from it.

 

[Roast Veg]

What's the current position over the Hastings-Ore section?

No SE services that I can see in the current timetable, but a few SN services use it in service to change platforms at Hastings.

 

[Kneedown]

Following the precedent set by Sunderland and Rotherham Central, Bulwell and Hucknall.

I don't know about Sunderland and Rotherham, but the tram platforms at Bulwell and Hucknall are entirely seperate from the Robin Hood line platforms, with no connectivity between the two, so i'm not sure we can count them?

 

[33011]

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I believe that was mainly done as a trick by SWR to keep an additional 158 that they would have otherwise been asked to send off lease.

I thought it was because they did not have enough 450s during the week which was why 158s only ran Mon-Fri.

 

[D365]

I thought it was because they did not have enough 450s during the week which was why 158s only ran Mon-Fri.

That's what I heard, with the Class 707s meaning that enough 450s are now available to operate Lymington seven days a week.

 

[swt_passenger]

That's what I heard, with the Class 707s meaning that enough 450s are now available to operate Lymington seven days a week.

It’s also exactly how the weekday 158 was explained at the time in terms of track access applications etc.

 

[33011]

The 158s replaced the two slammers iirc so the lack of 450s was never a problem before. Perhaps that's the reason the two slammers lasted so long?