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« Reply #15 on: January 26, 2019, 18:15:07 »

The most economical way to do it is to do a 'Penryn' (as in Cornwall).  No footbridge and only one set of passenger facilities required: https://thestationmaster.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/penryn-station.jpeg and https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/01/49/2014968_4fda9823.jpg

I did once look at this for Grahame for a potential solution for a crossing loop at Melksham Cheesy
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« Reply #16 on: January 26, 2019, 18:21:14 »

In fact I thing there are places where trains only use the loop when crossing, with that use being by the more secondary train.  Can anyone confirm that?
Weston-super-Mare being another
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« Reply #17 on: January 27, 2019, 16:14:32 »

I first came across the single platform passing loops on the Bostock Bad Dobran line in the early 2000s> However as I understand it  the difference is that in Germany the trains don't pass before reaching the platform. they stop nose to nose  with the point for the loop in the gap. Hopefully the train for which the loop is a facing point starts first
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« Reply #18 on: January 27, 2019, 22:29:56 »

I first came across the single platform passing loops on the Bostock Bad Dobran line in the early 2000s> However as I understand it  the difference is that in Germany the trains don't pass before reaching the platform. they stop nose to nose  with the point for the loop in the gap. Hopefully the train for which the loop is a facing point starts first
Yes, but due to the need to have sufficiently long signal overlaps, that makes the station platforms veryyyyyyyyy longgggggggg Tongue
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« Reply #19 on: January 28, 2019, 07:45:50 »

I first came across the single platform passing loops on the Bostock Bad Dobran line in the early 2000s> However as I understand it  the difference is that in Germany the trains don't pass before reaching the platform. they stop nose to nose  with the point for the loop in the gap. Hopefully the train for which the loop is a facing point starts first
Yes, but due to the need to have sufficiently long signal overlaps, that makes the station platforms veryyyyyyyyy longgggggggg Tongue

The "Penryn Solution" seems to me to have the best potential where the trackbed for the rest of the line is single track, and where a clockface service of relatively short workings that are broadly independent of other services are to be run, all calling at the passing place station.   As someone else raised Melksham, yes, it's an option though not ideal;  the alternative(s) is / are dynamic loops on the the long stretches from just north of Melksham Statioon nearly to Thingley, and / or from just south of Melksham Station to just north of the Avon Bridge at Staverton. Sure, other options start off as simple as an intermeiate signal (which as a limited intervention would only give a limited return) through to full redoubing which surprsingly would not solve issues of faster trains needing  to overtake slower ones somewhere between Westbury and Swindon.
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« Reply #20 on: January 28, 2019, 09:06:26 »

I first came across the single platform passing loops on the Bostock Bad Dobran line in the early 2000s> However as I understand it  the difference is that in Germany the trains don't pass before reaching the platform. they stop nose to nose  with the point for the loop in the gap. Hopefully the train for which the loop is a facing point starts first
Yes, but due to the need to have sufficiently long signal overlaps, that makes the station platforms veryyyyyyyyy longgggggggg Tongue

Maybe they could signal it like P12-15 at Reading: the approach control and mid platform Stop boards apparently help S&T (Signalling and Telegraph) Engineers get round the need for proper overlaps.   
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« Reply #21 on: January 28, 2019, 10:26:36 »

Maybe I should have  the Bad Dobran line doesn't have any freight traffic it's all 2 possibly 4 (2*2 ) car DMUs (Diesel Multiple Unit).

Yes the platform at Bad Doran is pretty long. So probably only applicable on lines with only short passenger trains.

The other common station layout on double track lines is 3 platforms mainlines and a bi directional loop for stopping trains, although I have ben round the loop on an IC (Inter City)  at an intermediate station between Hanover and Magdeburgh to overtake a freight train. 

Most through platforms at Reading do have intermediated stop boards.
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« Reply #22 on: January 28, 2019, 10:42:33 »

Most through platforms at Reading do have intermediated stop boards.

Actually, all of them. The Western Sectional Appendix says:

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A ‘Rear Clear Marker’ board is a circular board with white background, a black triangle and numerals in black font.
These boards are located on platforms 7 to 15, they are positioned approximately halfway along the platform and are applicable to DMUs (Diesel Multiple Unit) and EMUs (Electric Multiple Unit) with a consist of 2 to 5 vehicles. The boards apply to trains travelling in either Up and Down direction, and are reversing in the station.
Drivers, of DMU’s or EMU’s, with a consist of 2 to 5 vehicles, must stop the train 5 metres from the board if the service is to reverse in the platform and the next journey will be in the opposite direction to the arrival.
Drivers of formations that consist of more than 5 vehicles must go passed the ‘Rear Clear Marker’ board and stop the train at the normal stopping location for the formation they are driving.
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But that has nothing to do with whether permissive working is allowed - it only simplifies a train stopping at the first half of a platform. Permissive working is allowed in all platforms (1-15) other than P12P11 in the Down direction, with (as far as I can see) the same rules.
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« Reply #23 on: January 28, 2019, 11:18:38 »

But that has nothing to do with whether permissive working is allowed - it only simplifies a train stopping at the first half of a platform. Permissive working is allowed in all platforms (1-15) other than P12 in the Down direction, with (as far as I can see) the same rules.

P12 is OK for permissive working both directions, it's P11 in the down direction that isn't.
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« Reply #24 on: January 28, 2019, 11:22:31 »

The other common station layout on double track lines is 3 platforms mainlines and a bi directional loop for stopping trains, although I have ben round the loop on an IC (Inter City)  at an intermediate station between Hanover and Magdeburgh to overtake a freight train. 

Ironically that too could have its uses in Wiltshire - a bidirectional loop at Chippenham alongside the spare platform face.   Many and varied uses ...
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« Reply #25 on: January 28, 2019, 11:25:46 »

But that has nothing to do with whether permissive working is allowed - it only simplifies a train stopping at the first half of a platform. Permissive working is allowed in all platforms (1-15) other than P12 in the Down direction, with (as far as I can see) the same rules.

P12 is OK for permissive working both directions, it's P11 in the down direction that isn't.

You're right, of course - my mis-copying.
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