SeanG Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 Hello All Does anyone know of a location where there was a single track terminus into a 'through' platform that led to a goods siding?Many Thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 Hello All Does anyone know of a location where there was a single track terminus into a 'through' platform that led to a goods siding? Many Thanks Chessington South fit the bill ? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanG Posted August 3, 2018 Author Share Posted August 3, 2018 Chessington South fit the bill ? It appears that the coal depot was off what was originally intended to be the line to Leatherhead. I was ideally looking for lines which led directly from the platform into a goods siding Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zomboid Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 You mean freight facilities on a headshunt, or a freight only line continuing through the end of a passenger station platform road? For the second there will probably be plenty of examples. The first might have happened somewhere but I don't know of any examples myself. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 You mean freight facilities on a headshunt, or a freight only line continuing through the end of a passenger station platform road? For the second there will probably be plenty of examples. The first might have happened somewhere but I don't know of any examples myself. Probably only happened when there were geographical constraints so the yard couldn't be alongside the station ....... Hemyock had a dairy beyond the platform, Bridport had a harbour branch and Burnham had a lifeboat (!) but I think they all had conventional goods yards as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ba14eagle Posted August 3, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 3, 2018 How about Sinfin? I think it was Fairford that had loco facilities beyond the platform Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 Looe in Cornwall, the line continued past the platform to the harbour side. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 Pembroke Dock- line continued to Hobb's Point Milford Haven- line continued to RNAD Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 (edited) Probably only happened when there were geographical constraints so the yard couldn't be alongside the station ....... Hemyock had a dairy beyond the platform, Bridport had a harbour branch and Burnham had a lifeboat (!) but I think they all had conventional goods yards as well. As has been said, extensions beyond stations to quays, piers and small ports were fairly common, apart from Looe, Fort William springs immediately to mind, At Fairford the goods yard, run round loop and loco shed were all beyond the single platform but Fairford was intended to be a through station on a longer railway to Cheltenham. There's a track plan here. http://www.fairfordbranch.co.uk/Plans.htm The extension once used by the lifeboat at Burnham on Sea had originally been a line that ran beyond the station's two platforms (one mainly for excursion traffic) and onto a 900 ft stome pier built by the railway apparently for passengers coming over from S. Wales on the steamer they owned. The pier was built in 1858 but stopped being used as a railway facility in 1886 though was still used as a steamer pier until the early 20th Century after which it became too silted. Apart from the pier extension, the station had a small but conventional goods yard with the goods shed behind the main platform adjoining the station building. https://signalbox.org/diagrams.php?id=181 In the 1963 BBC film "Let's Imagine- A Branch Line Railway" with John Betjeman (available on BBC iPlayer and very well worth watching) there is a photo of the pier in its prime with what looks like two tracks and some pointwork. By the time Betjeman visited, the station was closed (it closed to goods in May 1963) but had been used for excursion trains until the previous year and was still intact with all its track. By then the branch ended at a buffer stop before the esplanade but a single line of track was still present on what was left of the pier - That ended with the ramp that had been used by the RNLI. but the former lifeboat station was well inland of those buffers so I don't know when the practice of launching the lifeboat using the railway had ended. There was of course the original G.C. Leighton Buzzard (Linslade) terminus which had a goods shed on the end of the headshunt but that station only ever existed in EM gauge and Peter Denny's imagination. (Apparently he sited it there because on the logical goods siding next to it, the goods shed would have fouled the station building when the layout was folded) Edited August 3, 2018 by Pacific231G Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karhedron Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 Hemyock might fit the bill. Beyond the platform, the line ran across the level crossing and into the dairy. https://hemyock.org/mediagallery/album.php?aid=4&sort=0 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted August 3, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 3, 2018 Laxfield on the Mid-Suffolk, goods facilities beyond the platform Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bike2steam Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 , Bridport had a harbour branch Bridport wasn't an intentional terminus, at one time it carried on to West Bay (Broadchurch ??) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 Bridport wasn't an intentional terminus, at one time it carried on to West Bay (Broadchurch ??) Thanks - I stand corrected ......................... no, on second thoughts, I'll remain seated. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
clachnaharry Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 Higham Ferrers, the terminus of a branch line from Wellingborough had a 3 road goods yard beyond the station platform and run round loop. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Geep7 Posted August 3, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 3, 2018 Bude in Cornwall used to have a single terminus platform (with bay) which continued beyond the platform end to a run-round loop, and a separate line branching off beyond the end if the station to the harbour. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingsignalman Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 After it was rationalised but before it was resited, Wrexham Central was an example of a goods line continuing beyond the passenger platform. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted August 3, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 3, 2018 You'd be hard put to find any terminus in South Wales where the line did not continue past the passenger station to either form a junction with another line (Rhymney, Treherbert) or to a colliery further up the valley (Maerdy, Abergwynfi, Gllfach Goch, Pontyberem). Merthyr High Street, Barry Pier, arguably Cardiff Clarence Road although a nearby canal railway continued south; I'm scratching for more examples now. Even rural branches like Cowbridge were stubs of railways that continued past the terminus at one time. Not sure that's quite what you mean, though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Pilotman Posted August 3, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 3, 2018 Looe in Cornwall, the line continued past the platform to the harbour side. And on the same branch, Coombe Junction halt and Moorswater siding sort of fits the bill. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingsignalman Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 Some photos of Wrexham Central in 1980. Looking towards Wrexham Exchange DMU in the station The ground frame controlling the siding connections Looking to the station showing the trap points protecting the station from the siding Looking the other way showing the DMU siding with the line formerly to Ellesmere on the right. Mile post, measured from Ellesmere. The end of the DMU siding; the former line to Ellesmere (which only ran to Abenbury Siding by at that time) appears out of use but I don't think it had been abandoned by then. The siding was to allow a DMU to stable while another was entered the single line to the station. I think it was used to build up or split trains for the peak hours. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastglosmog Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 Fairford, terminus of the East Gloucestershire line, had a single platform, with goods siding, goods shed, run round loop, engine shed and turntable all beyond the end of the passenger line and platform. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 (edited) Croxley Green had a mod st yard beyond the station, and Chesham quite an extensive yard. I’ve often thought that Chesham is the great overlooked BLT, probably because the Met is only now becoming recognised by modellers as an interesting railway. It even has a convenient bridge as a scenic break. Nice photo here https://www.francisfrith.com/chesham/chesham-station-1906_53644 and a rather different one here https://mikemorant.smugmug.com/Trains-Railways-British-Isles/LT-railways/LT-railways-non-LT-steam/i-vCrZCN9/A Edited August 3, 2018 by Nearholmer Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted August 3, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 3, 2018 (edited) Barnoldswick. Single platform passenger station, with coal yard beyond - and on the far side of a level crossing. Edited August 3, 2018 by Compound2632 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 Barnoldswick. Single platform passenger station, with coal yard beyond - and on the far side of a level crossing. In a way Ballina is/was similar, having a 'town' yard beyond a level crossing sat the platform end ...... though this was once on the long-closed line out to Killala and most, if not all, freight is handled in the container yard opposite the passenger platform. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Fen End Pit Posted August 6, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 6, 2018 Matlock in the 80's had a single platform with a loop beyond it. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Kylestrome Posted August 7, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 7, 2018 (edited) Bude in Cornwall used to have a single terminus platform (with bay) which continued beyond the platform end to a run-round loop, and a separate line branching off beyond the end if the station to the harbour. The Bude harbour branch was reached before the station, from the goods yard. There was no siding beyond the platform. See post #52 here: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/73357-bude-station-yard-etc/page-3?hl=bude David Edited August 7, 2018 by Kylestrome Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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