A planning application has just been lodged to extend the length of Charlbury's platforms:
http://publicaccess.westoxon.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=P5D7KTRKI4L00The Network Rail PDF (click 'Documents', then the icon on the right by 'Planning Statement') says
Platform 1 will be extended by 48.445m and Platform 2 by 74.680m, both extensions will include lighting, tactile paving and drainage. Alterations to the existing platforms will include realignment of copers, profiling of the existing platform surface, the addition of drainage and tactiles.
This would bring P1 to 185m total (7.1
IEP▸ carriages) and P2 to 177m total (6.8 IEP carriages), if my calculations are right.
Slightly oddly it claims that these are necessary as part of the "West of England
DMU▸ Capability Works" to "accommodate DMU’s Class 165 and 166".
It would be good to see a more uncluttered design than was achieved for the new P1, which is a bit of a forest of poles and arguably didn't do much for the setting of the listed station building.