Stations with "dead" platforms

resistor · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 12:36 pm

edison · Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 11:37 am

What an interesting thread this has been!

On the up side of Hornsby station was a small loco shed, a couple of sidings and a turntable. This was for the operation of the Hornsby-Cowan shuttle (when the wires stopped at Hornsby, or at least, at the car sidings, as they were known). 30-class and a LUB set used to do this run, approx. hourly.

Also, does anyone remember the pick-up goods that used to come down as far as St Leonards, serving also sidings at Chatswood and Gordon. Worked by 50-53-class and later 48's?

Aah, the Good Old Days . . .

wurx · Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 4:55 pm

I worked in Chandos St and later Christie St, St Leonards for about 5yrs during the mid to late 80s and during some of that time was a rail commuter. The St Leonards railway station of that time was a far cry indeed from today!

While I don't recall ever seeing the goods service that you describe edison, I do recall that there was a siding on the eastern side (IIRC) accessed from the Up track. Would the pick-up goods you described have lobbed into this siding?

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edison · Posted: Sat May 21, 2005 10:52 pm

Wurx -

Yes, it did, and I agree about the old (first) station, with the open-air ramp down from the Pacific Hwy overbridge. The pick-up used to arrive most nights of the week, between 8 and 10 pm. It also served sidings on the Down side, north of the substation building.

Just thought, there was so much less ambient noise in the environment in those days - I lived about half-way between the Pac Hwy and the harbour, in Greenwich, and could hear the above train at night, and also the chorus of whistles that would occur at Darling Harbour whenever a driver did his last trip!

Cheers,

Edison

dragons754 · Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 10:11 pm

Does the Mortuary station at Central in Sydney count as a dead platform?

wurx · Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 3:08 am

wurx · Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 8:35 pm

UPDATE

It recently surfaced on another thread somewhere that there was to be sextuplification of tracks between Sydenham and Illawarra Junction.

Apparently the project was begun in the late 40s, and between then and a decade on, was stopped & started several times, due to the usual BS reasons that will always hamper any public infrastructure project: pollie tricks (politics) Evil or Very Mad

(OT, this was why it took just over half a century for the completion of the construction of the ESR Rolling Eyes

)

Anyway, back to the abandoned sextup. Had it been completed, the Banko would finish at Illawarra junction, instead of at Sydenham, where Banko trains have always had to cross over to/from the Illawarra Local lines. The dead platties at St. Peters would be 1 (up Banko) & 2 (down Banko), and the relevant pathway constructed under the Princes Hwy. The Coulson St and Macdonald St under-line bridges would be carrying six tracks instead of four; and at Erko, the dead back of (now) platform 1 would be down Banko, with an up Banko platform across from it (this one was never built AFAIK).

Which, I hope, will put the coffin story in its, erm, coffin.......

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The dog just bit my leg,
My teenage daughter ran away,
My fine young son has turned out gay.
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Turbo Thomas · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 8:58 am

There are another couple of dead platforms in Melbourne on the Sydenham line.
There is the old up platform at St Albans located on the opposite side of the level crossing.
There is also the platform at the old Sydenham station building.
Both these platforms are still intact, but cannot be accessed by the public.

Could the old parcels platform at Belgrave be classified as a dead platform?

awsgc24 · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 12:25 pm

At Rydal (NSW) and Tarana the double line has been singled, so that one platform is out of use. Maybe Sodwalls as well.

At Molong, the main line has been slewed over to the old Loop Line so as to use the Loop Line bridge which is in better condition than the Main Line Bridge. The gap between main platform and train is very wide.

Orange station has a dock platform with no tracks in it.

Canterbury has a former turnback platform with no track in it, with a very wide gap to the nearest Goods track.

42101 · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 12:33 pm

Parkes has two dead dock platforms at the west end of the main platform.

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Warks · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 1:40 pm

coit · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 1:49 pm

I dont think these have been mentioned:
Newcastle platform No5,later used for storing DMU's,then track removed for carparking,then buses.
Maitland Dock platform at the up end of platform 1.It's been filled in,but I can remember an occasional carriage being stored there.
I think it was for the Morpeth branch when the connection faced Maitland.
Nearly all the platforms exist on the SMR,some with track,and some without.Most could hold 8 to 10 carriage trains.
Old platorms at Cockle Creek for the West Wallsend line(don't know if they're still there).

awsgc24 · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 3:30 pm

awsgc24 · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 7:17 pm

Newbridge had an island platform in double line days. Assuming that the platform remained after singling, one side flanks the mainline while the other flanks a perway(?) siding.

dasher · Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 3:55 pm