Train GraphicClick on the map to explore geographics
 
I need help
FAQ
Emergency
About .
Travel & transport from BBC stories as at 13:35 28 Mar 2024
* Man held over stabbing in front of train passengers
- How do I renew my UK passport and what is the 10-year rule?
- Easter travel warning as millions set to hit roads
Read about the forum [here].
Register [here] - it's free.
What do I gain from registering? [here]
 02/06/24 - Summer Timetable starts
17/08/24 - Bus to Imber
27/09/25 - 200 years of passenger trains

On this day
28th Mar (1917)
Bideford, Westward Ho! and Appledore closed (link)

Train RunningCancelled
11:50 Cardiff Central to London Paddington
12:15 London Paddington to Cardiff Central
12:30 London Paddington to Weston-Super-Mare
13:00 Bristol Temple Meads to London Paddington
13:15 Swindon to Westbury
13:26 Weston-Super-Mare to London Paddington
13:28 Weymouth to Gloucester
13:30 London Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads
14:19 Westbury to Swindon
15:14 Swindon to Westbury
Short Run
08:03 London Paddington to Penzance
10:55 Paignton to London Paddington
11:23 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central
11:29 Weymouth to Gloucester
11:48 London Paddington to Carmarthen
12:03 London Paddington to Penzance
12:42 Bristol Temple Meads to Salisbury
12:46 Avonmouth to Weston-Super-Mare
13:03 London Paddington to Plymouth
13:07 Salisbury to Bristol Temple Meads
13:10 Gloucester to Weymouth
13:26 Okehampton to Exeter Central
14:05 Salisbury to Bristol Temple Meads
16:19 Carmarthen to London Paddington
Delayed
10:04 London Paddington to Penzance
10:23 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central
11:30 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour
12:30 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour
14:30 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour
PollsOpen and recent polls
Closed 2024-03-25 Easter Escape - to where?
Abbreviation pageAcronymns and abbreviations
Stn ComparatorStation Comparator
Rail newsNews Now - live rail news feed
Site Style 1 2 3 4
Next departures • Bristol Temple MeadsBath SpaChippenhamSwindonDidcot ParkwayReadingLondon PaddingtonMelksham
Exeter St DavidsTauntonWestburyTrowbridgeBristol ParkwayCardiff CentralOxfordCheltenham SpaBirmingham New Street
March 28, 2024, 13:51:42 *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Forgotten your username or password? - get a reminder
Most recently liked subjects
[142] West Wiltshire Bus Changes April 2024
[80] would you like your own LIVE train station departure board?
[56] Return of the BRUTE?
[46] If not HS2 to Manchester, how will traffic be carried?
[43] Infrastructure problems in Thames Valley causing disruption el...
[34] Reversing Beeching - bring heritage and freight lines into the...
 
News: the Great Western Coffee Shop ... keeping you up to date with travel around the South West
 
   Home   Help Search Calendar Login Register  
Pages: [1] 2 3
  Print  
Author Topic: Notable Platforms  (Read 3364 times)
grahame
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 40690



View Profile WWW Email
« on: September 22, 2021, 11:24:44 »

From my mailbox ...

Quote
Notable Platforms

Hi,

As an expert in Website Management, I take great pride in helping clients with great looking design, increase traffic and revenue through their website and other notable platforms.

I was reviewing your website and admire what your company is doing. There are a few other things you could do to take your strategy to the next level, such as using tools that allow you to better target your audience based on time and date.

Do you have time for a call to discuss some of these basic tactics? I simply want to talk more, provide some advice and learn more about your business.

If this sounds good to you, please reply for more information. Thanks for your time!


Kind Regards,
Rachel Cowan

OK - I thought she was emailing me about some platforms that are really worth a special mention.  I give you:
* Wemyss Bay for its beauty
* Pilning for the latent opportunity it offers
* Gloucester for its length
* Penryn for its novelty
* Birmingham New Street for the unwelcoming cavern in which the platforms are situated.
* Dilton Marsh for its potential
* Arnos Grove for the centre turn back example that could be replicated at Chippenham
* Waterloo for its superiority as a connectional and travel hub above all others
* Melksham for it's shear darned usefulness for the people near where I live
Logged

Coffee Shop Admin, Acting Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, Option 24/7 Melksham Rep
CyclingSid
Data Manager
Hero Member
******
Posts: 1918


Hockley viaduct


View Profile
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2021, 18:44:26 »

Cold callers don't always get such considered responses.
Logged
broadgage
Transport Scholar
Hero Member
******
Posts: 5398



View Profile
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2021, 18:47:51 »

Not forgetting platform nine and three quarters at kings cross, little used but important for some special services.

And Waterloo East, with the rare though not quite unique lettered rather than numbered platforms.

And Nunhead, reputed to be the highest above sea level in London, and with views across much of London. Also has a view of the former broadgage towers.
Logged

A proper intercity train has a minimum of 8 coaches, gangwayed throughout, with first at one end, and a full sized buffet car between first and standard.
It has space for cycles, surfboards,luggage etc.
A 5 car DMU (Diesel Multiple Unit) is not a proper inter-city train. The 5+5 and 9 car DMUs are almost as bad.
Phil
Global Moderator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 2042



View Profile
« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2021, 19:21:53 »

Can't believe nobody's yet mentioned Elton John's platforms.
Logged
johnneyw
Transport Scholar
Hero Member
******
Posts: 2257


From station to station, back to Bristol city....


View Profile
« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2021, 19:53:58 »

The concept of a "Platform 0", such as at Cardiff Central, which to my sense of logic suggests no platform at all.
Logged
Bmblbzzz
Transport Scholar
Hero Member
******
Posts: 4256


View Profile
« Reply #5 on: September 22, 2021, 21:05:00 »

Elton John immediately followed by "no platform at all" has my mind singing Bowie's Queen Bitch. If you know the song, you'll understand way, but whether you do or don't, just be thankful you can't hear me!
Logged

Waiting at Pilning for the midnight sleeper to Prague.
Clan Line
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 858



View Profile
« Reply #6 on: September 22, 2021, 21:11:15 »

I hear there is a lot of "no platforms" at our universities now !
Logged
grahame
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 40690



View Profile WWW Email
« Reply #7 on: September 22, 2021, 21:50:42 »

Let's try some more

North Workington for the speed of construction
Harrington if you have the hump
Wimbledon Staff Halt if you're feeling short
Malvern Link because it's so normal that it's notable for that
Logged

Coffee Shop Admin, Acting Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, Option 24/7 Melksham Rep
RichT54
Sr. Member
****
Posts: 130


View Profile
« Reply #8 on: September 22, 2021, 23:07:04 »

Sandhurst - for having completed extending the platforms in March 2020, but still not having any longer trains stopping at them!
Logged
JayMac
Data Manager
Hero Member
******
Posts: 18894



View Profile
« Reply #9 on: September 23, 2021, 08:25:55 »

Blackpool Central for having the greatest number of platforms to close at once. Fourteen, in November 1964.
Yeovil Pen Mill for its single loop line with platforms either side.
« Last Edit: September 23, 2021, 08:37:35 by bignosemac » Logged

"Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for the rest of the day. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."

- Sir Terry Pratchett.
PrestburyRoad
Sr. Member
****
Posts: 193


View Profile
« Reply #10 on: September 23, 2021, 08:55:13 »

Cheltenham Spa before the platforms were extended after bay platforms were removed, for having platforms too short for full-length trains - long trains had to pull up twice (I wonder how many passengers were confused by his arrangement).
Logged
rower40
Transport Scholar
Sr. Member
******
Posts: 292

Turning signalling into a video game since 1988.


View Profile
« Reply #11 on: September 23, 2021, 08:57:08 »

Derby platform 7 for being signposted as such, but not being passed for passenger trains.
Logged
grahame
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 40690



View Profile WWW Email
« Reply #12 on: September 23, 2021, 09:00:22 »

Derby platform 7 for being signposted as such, but not being passed for passenger trains.

Platform 2 at Bristol Temple Meads ... and are their signs at Salisbury for Platform 5?
Logged

Coffee Shop Admin, Acting Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, Option 24/7 Melksham Rep
Red Squirrel
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 5190


There are some who call me... Tim


View Profile
« Reply #13 on: September 23, 2021, 12:31:35 »

I'd nominate Platform 2 at Montpelier, for being completely intact but almost completely invisible.
Or Platform 14 at Bristol Temple Meads, from where the little-known Pigmoles Express departs (hauled by No 5051 Pigmoles Hall)
Logged

Things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.
grahame
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 40690



View Profile WWW Email
« Reply #14 on: September 23, 2021, 15:14:18 »

I thought I was missing something
Quote
5051 Earl Bathurst. Originally built as Drysllwyn Castle
but then remembered that we're in the lighter side!
Logged

Coffee Shop Admin, Acting Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, Option 24/7 Melksham Rep
Do you have something you would like to add to this thread, or would you like to raise a new question at the Coffee Shop? Please [register] (it is free) if you have not done so before, or login (at the top of this page) if you already have an account - we would love to read what you have to say!

You can find out more about how this forum works [here] - that will link you to a copy of the forum agreement that you can read before you join, and tell you very much more about how we operate. We are an independent forum, provided and run by customers of Great Western Railway, for customers of Great Western Railway and we welcome railway professionals as members too, in either a personal or official capacity. Views expressed in posts are not necessarily the views of the operators of the forum.

As well as posting messages onto existing threads, and starting new subjects, members can communicate with each other through personal messages if they wish. And once members have made a certain number of posts, they will automatically be admitted to the "frequent posters club", where subjects not-for-public-domain are discussed; anything from the occasional rant to meetups we may be having ...

 
Pages: [1] 2 3
  Print  
 
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.2 | SMF © 2006-2007, Simple Machines LLC Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!
This forum is provided by customers of Great Western Railway (formerly First Great Western), and the views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that the content provided by one of our posters contravenes our posting rules (email link to report). Forum hosted by Well House Consultants

Jump to top of pageJump to Forum Home Page