RMweb Gold Geep7 Posted August 7, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 7, 2018 (edited) 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 Ah, first time i've actually seen the signalling diagram if Bude. From photos, I always assumed it curved away from the end of the platforms (although diverged before the run-round loop). Thanks for correcting me. Edited August 7, 2018 by Geep7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 At Coalburn the single platform passenger station was the terminus of the line. For locomotives to run around their stock before the return journey, they had to continue south, across a level crossing hard by the station, to Bankend where there was a passing loop. https://www.railscot.co.uk/img/6/588/ Jim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted August 10, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 10, 2018 Looe in Cornwall, the line continued past the platform to the harbour side. The harbour part was almost an incidental (although there was regular traffic for many years) but the line to the harbour was actually a continuation of the goods yard which itself lay beyond the passenger platform. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wagonman Posted August 11, 2018 Share Posted August 11, 2018 I suppose Yealmpton is another case of a station intended to be a through station ending up as a terminus. The goods yard was adjacent to the passenger station but access to it was beyond the end of the platform. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 The harbour part was almost an incidental (although there was regular traffic for many years) but the line to the harbour was actually a continuation of the goods yard which itself lay beyond the passenger platform. Presumably the harbour had been of far greater importance when the branch was carrying mineral traffic from the Liskeard and Caradon railway serving the mining industry and stone quarries on Caradon Moor. That was originally the purpose of the line before the steep curving connection was made from Coombe to the main line at Liskeard station and there had been a passenger station at Moorswater. When I first visited the area in 1967-1969 the track was still laid past the warehouses on the quayside at Looe but mining had collapsed before the First World War and the line beyond Moorswater closed by the GWR presumably because the stone quarries weren't generating enough traffic. I don't know which part of the quays had been used for the tin copper and granite traffic but I'm guessing it wasn't the part where the more general warehouses were situated. Time for a visit to the National Library of Scotland's maps I think. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dolydd Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 Would Llanberis fit the bill? And Nantlle had a siding going forwrd to Coedmadog quarry as well as a turntable beyond the platform end. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ba14eagle Posted September 3, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 3, 2018 Has anyone mentioned Fishguard Harbour? Line continued out onto the breakwater. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold scottystitch Posted September 3, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 3, 2018 I think Methven also would fit the bill. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jessy1692 Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 Pateley bridge had an end on connection over a level crossing from the NER to the corpoeation line up to the reservoirs above the village Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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