RMweb Gold Nick C Posted March 14, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 14, 2019 Newport, on the Isle of Wight, was at its heyday a fairly large junction station, with four lines converging - Cowes, Ryde, Sandown and Freshwater, and four platforms. Were there any other large junction stations in the UK at which every route was single track? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted March 14, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 14, 2019 I guess that would depend on what you call "big". But, yes, I am sure we can find many although not many with four routes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Reorte Posted March 14, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 14, 2019 Crianlarich maybe, although not everything met in the same place and there were two separate stations so probably doesn't count. All single track though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjnewitt Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 (edited) Brecon Free Street station had four platforms was the hub for four seperate lines, all single track, though the junctions for two of those lines were some way from Brecon itself at Talyllyn and Three Cocks Junctions. I wouldn't necessarily describe Free Street as a 'large' station though. Set in a beautiful location certainly and perhaps the epitome of a rural railway centre but traffic was never really heavy and aside from the grand station building the layout wasn't big or complicated. Justin Edited March 14, 2019 by jjnewitt 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Wellyboots Posted March 14, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 14, 2019 Towcester, had 3 platforms with lines to Stratford on Avon, Banbury, Bilsworth, and Bedford. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted March 14, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 14, 2019 1 hour ago, Nick C said: Newport, on the Isle of Wight, was at its heyday a fairly large junction station, with four lines converging - Cowes, Ryde, Sandown and Freshwater, and four platforms. Were there any other large junction stations in the UK at which every route was single track? Your question prompted me to look up the OS map for Newport IoW. I had not realised that trains from Yarmouth/Freshwater could not access the station without reversal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted March 14, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 14, 2019 (edited) Now got the atlas out from the library. This may be easier than I thought, although still subject to what one means by "big". Barnstaple, Halwill Jct,.... Bewdley (that was an obvious one!) Edited March 14, 2019 by Joseph_Pestell Add 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Nick C Posted March 14, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 14, 2019 1 hour ago, Joseph_Pestell said: Now got the atlas out from the library. This may be easier than I thought, although still subject to what one means by "big". Barnstaple, Halwill Jct,.... Bewdley (that was an obvious one!) Wasn't Barnstaple double track on the main line (Exeter->Ilfracombe)? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted March 14, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 14, 2019 (edited) Brechin in Angus wasn't perhaps that big a station but served as the terminus and junction of 3 separate lines. To the east of the station, what looked like a double track line veered north - these were in fact the single track Forfar and Edzell branches, which ran alongside each other until they diverged at the north of the town. The third line was to Bridge of Dun, which went eastwards from the station. A train from one line to any other would have to reverse in (or just before) the terminus. Edited March 14, 2019 by keefer 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwin_m Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 Melton Constable? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted March 14, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 14, 2019 (edited) See below. Edited March 14, 2019 by Siberian Snooper See post below. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted March 14, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 14, 2019 1 hour ago, Nick C said: Wasn't Barnstaple double track on the main line (Exeter->Ilfracombe)? Single from Copplestone. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Kris Posted March 14, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 14, 2019 Wadebridge would fit the criteria. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 Barnstaple Junction to Barnstaple Town was always single. Barnstaple Town to Ilfracombe was originally single, then doubled, then singled again before closure. Umberleigh to Barnstaple Junction was double for many years, but then singled (in the late 1960s?) cheers 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithHC Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 Try Glastonbury three lines converging. Also Midhurst. Keith Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjnewitt Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 In a similar, albeit smaller, vein to Brecon: Monmouth. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithHC Posted March 15, 2019 Share Posted March 15, 2019 If we are talking about Monmouth you could add Ross-on-wye. Keith Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjnewitt Posted March 15, 2019 Share Posted March 15, 2019 42 minutes ago, KeithHC said: If we are talking about Monmouth you could add Ross-on-wye. There was only one branch off the Hereford. Ross & Gloucester Railway at Ross-on-Wye though, so it wasn't much different to countless other junction stations on single track lines. At Monmouth there were lines to Usk/Little Mill, Ross, Chepstow and also at one point to Coleford though it did close very early (1917). Justin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted March 15, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 15, 2019 There are probably hundreds if we allow places where a branch diverged from a single track "main" line. But, as per the OP, not that many where two branches diverge from the single-track "main". Buildwas is another one of those. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Reorte Posted March 15, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 15, 2019 Did the additions and closures and singling and redoubling ever mean Yeovil Junction would've qualified at some point? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted March 15, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 15, 2019 5 minutes ago, Reorte said: Did the additions and closures and singling and redoubling ever mean Yeovil Junction would've qualified at some point? I don't think so. Apart from there having been double track on both routes for much of the time, the link through the GW goods yard (known by another name, Clifton Maybank) was not direct. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hexagon789 Posted March 15, 2019 Share Posted March 15, 2019 What about Forres? Fairly certain all its routes were single, and I think it originally had a triangular station layout with one platform even bisected by a road and level crossing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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