Stations with one platform

[silverfoxcc]

Read on another sight that there are four stations on th underground system that have a singlr platform. I have found

Heathrow Term 4

Mill Hill East

What are the other two?

[jimini]

Chesham and Olympia, I think.

[castlebar]

There were more:

South Acton

Blake Hall, Ongar

[Chris M]

Feb 8, 2020 22:49:44 GMT castlebar said:

There were more:

New Cross, New Cross Gate and Shoreditch had one platform when they were part of the Underground.
Embankment and Wood Lane (Central line) did when first built. King William Street did as well, but I can't remember whether that was rebuilt from one to two or vice versa.

[gantshill]

... Wood Lane on the Central line when it first opened. Shoreditch and Aldwych also only had one platform for many years.

[gantshill]

I think King William Street started with a central track with two outer platforms (like Tower Gateway) and then was changed to be a central platform with a track either side.
Stratford DLR also started as a single platform.


Apologies I should have merged this with my previous post.

[Chris M]

Emerson Park, New Cross and Battersea Park all have only one platform for London Overground services and there are loads of single platform stops on Tramlink.

[zbang]

For clarity, does "single platform station" mean a station with only one platform with a single track next to it or does it also include stations with a platform having tracks on two sides? Heathrow 4 and Kensington/Olympia would count as the first.

(Some rail systems use "platform" to be the passenger area adjoining one or more tracks, so "Platform 1" could have A and B sides.)

[rincew1nd]

I think it refers to platform faces, rather than structures.

An island platform is a single structure but with two faces.

[class411]

I'm sure there are no LU stations that literally have a single platform, but were there ever?

ETA: Well, I certainly got that wrong.

[Dstock7080]

Feb 9, 2020 9:06:49 GMT class411 said:

I'm sure there are no LU stations that literally have a single platform, but were there ever?

Heathrow Terminal 4 surely qualifies, LU opening 1986 and the Heathrow Connect/TfL Rail station is separate and opened 1998.

[countryman]

It appears that Mill Hill East is the only station that has and has only had one platform.

Chesham has only one platform, but appears to originally had two, the current platform originally being platform 2.

Olympia only has one LU platform, but another two used by Overground.

Similarly Heathrow Terminal 4 has one LU platform, but two TFL platforms.

So the answer to the OP depends on the definition of one platform.

[MoreToJack]

The two Terminal 4 stations are entirely separate and nowhere near each other. If Mill Hill East counts, so does T4. Sharing a name does not make a station the same.

[gantshill]

Going back into history, I seem to recall that a couple of the Hounslow stations opened as single track and platform. I presume that many of the Brill branch stations were not double tracked.

[zbang]

Feb 9, 2020 8:49:28 GMT rincew1nd said:

I think it refers to platform faces, rather than structures.

An island platform is a single structure but with two faces.

I'll go with "platform equals faces" as it appears that LU numbers the faces individually (e.g. platforms 3 & 4 at Edgware Rd). OTOH the phrase "cross-platform transfer" muddies the waters a bit....

In general, this suggests that a single-platform station must be served by only a single track (such as Mill Hill East or Heathrow 4). A skim of the CartaMetro map suggests this is quite rare.

[silverfoxcc]

Thanks for all the replies and in some cases a nice piece of history.

To clarify it was stations with only one platform face in operation now

So we have got the answers

Terminal 4
Chesham
Kenny O
Mill Hill East

One for the pub quiz tie breaker methinks

Thanks to all who replied