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« Reply #15 on: June 08, 2020, 14:04:10 »
And Berkeley Road

They're coming in thick and fast aren't they  Grin

Thinking more about it, the Midland Railway seems to be disproportionately represented in the examples listed so far.
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« Reply #16 on: June 08, 2020, 14:26:09 »
Further afield but iconic: Carnforth. Branch line platforms still in use, of course.
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« Reply #17 on: June 08, 2020, 14:43:22 »
Quote from: Richard Fairhurst on June 08, 2020, 14:26:09
Further afield but iconic: Carnforth. Branch line platforms still in use, of course.
Briefly encountered them once ...
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« Reply #18 on: June 08, 2020, 15:06:41 »
Quote from: Oxonhutch on June 08, 2020, 14:43:22
Quote from: Richard Fairhurst on June 08, 2020, 14:26:09
Further afield but iconic: Carnforth. Branch line platforms still in use, of course.
Briefly encountered them once ...

Carnforth then and now

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« Reply #19 on: June 08, 2020, 15:16:48 »
Ambergate used to be a triangular station like Shipley, and yet another Midland Railway example.
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« Reply #20 on: June 08, 2020, 16:37:04 »
Nobody's mentioed Keighley yet, and its still almost fully operational
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« Reply #21 on: June 08, 2020, 17:10:48 »
Also Mangotsfield from days gone by
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« Reply #22 on: June 08, 2020, 17:38:20 »
Quote from: stuving on June 08, 2020, 11:01:28
Topologically, but double and grade-separated, Raynes Park. (Is there a specific German word for that kind?)

I think the south of London networks are the natural habitat of the beasties here - Hither Green and Sutton also qualify.

Maybe there's fewer than I thought in the London suburbs (though Lewes is the classic one further out). I suspect there's more around Paris, or at least similar oddly-shaped platforming arrangements. Asnières-sur-Seine is a proper one, but Bécon-les-Bruyères (the next station) isn't quite: it's disjunct (i.e. two separate stations with tracks between them). Ermont-Eaubonne used to be one, but fifteen years ago they disjunctioned it - the branch that looped south towards St Lazare now terminates at this end.
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« Reply #23 on: June 08, 2020, 18:54:17 »
In London itself Baker Street Metropolitan/Circle/H&C lines LUL▸ (London Underground Ltd)
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« Reply #24 on: June 08, 2020, 19:16:38 »
Don't think anyone's mentioned Raynes Park in SWR» (South Western Railway - about) land.
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« Reply #25 on: June 08, 2020, 20:16:39 »
Quote from: grahame on June 08, 2020, 07:01:14
From Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keilbahnhof

Keilbahnhof (plural: Keilbahnhöfe, literally: "wedge station") is the German word for a station located between branching tracks.[1] There appears to be no direct English equivalent for this term, (though 'junction station' would be an equivalent meaning) which appears in the route diagrams of German railway lines. In a keilbahnhof, the platforms curve in opposite directions so that they are parallel at one end of the station & not at the other.

I can think of some in the UK▸ (United Kingdom) (Dovey Junction springs to mind) ... but none currently GWR▸ (Great Western Railway).  Anyone?

In a sense, Worcester Foregate Street counts. From the eastern end, you can only go to Shrub Hill/ London from one platform, and only to Droitwich/Birmingham from the other.
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« Reply #26 on: June 08, 2020, 20:35:17 »
Quote from: JontyMort on June 08, 2020, 20:16:39
Quote from: grahame on June 08, 2020, 07:01:14
From Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keilbahnhof

Keilbahnhof (plural: Keilbahnhöfe, literally: "wedge station") is the German word for a station located between branching tracks.[1] There appears to be no direct English equivalent for this term, (though 'junction station' would be an equivalent meaning) which appears in the route diagrams of German railway lines. In a keilbahnhof, the platforms curve in opposite directions so that they are parallel at one end of the station & not at the other.

I can think of some in the UK▸ (United Kingdom) (Dovey Junction springs to mind) ... but none currently GWR▸ (Great Western Railway).  Anyone?

In a sense, Worcester Foregate Street counts. From the eastern end, you can only go to Shrub Hill/ London from one platform, and only to Droitwich/Birmingham from the other.

And in a sense not because it's not got platforms between the tracks.

Amazing how many different setups we can find!
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« Reply #27 on: June 08, 2020, 21:16:37 »
Quote from: adc82140 on June 08, 2020, 19:16:38
Don't think anyone's mentioned Raynes Park in SWR» (South Western Railway - about) land.

I was beaten to it by Stuving.  Smiley
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« Reply #28 on: June 08, 2020, 21:43:57 »
Quote from: grahame on June 08, 2020, 20:35:17

Amazing how many different setups we can find!

Yes (OT) like Manchester Victoria and Exchange in a way sharing a platform. Victoria P11 at one end and Exchange P3 at the other
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« Reply #29 on: June 08, 2020, 21:50:27 »
Paddington its self could be in this group, main line terminating platforms with through running 'ott n colds (Plat 15 and 16)
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