Bay platform
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A bay platform is a railway-related term commonly used in Britain to mean a dead-end platform at a railway station which otherwise consists exclusively (or predominantly) of through platforms.
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[edit] Overview
An example of a station which has a bay platform is Rugby railway station, which has two through platforms and two working bay platforms, as well as 2 abandoned bay platforms.
Trains which use a bay platform have to reverse direction and depart in the direction from which they arrived.
Bay and island platforms are so named because they resemble the geographic features of the same name.
[edit] Dock platforms
Dock platforms are similar to bay platforms, but are smaller, and originally used to unload freight.
[edit] Stations with bay platforms
- Barrhead railway station - for local services
- Brockenhurst railway station - for local services
- Chester railway station - for the North Wales line
- Crewe railway station - for the North Wales line
- Dalmuir railway station - for Argyle line services
- Llandudno Junction railway station
- Manchester Oxford Road railway station - for westbound stopping services operated by Merseyrail
- Newcastle Central Station - for Tyne Valley Line services, and services towards Chathill.
- Reading railway station - for stopping services east towards London Paddington and west towards Great Bedwyn. Also services from Bournemouth going up to Manchester go into a bay platform and then reverse out, even though they are passing through the station.
- Rugby railway station - bays for Local services in both directions
- Slough railway station - for the service to Windsor and Eton Central railway station
- West Croydon station - for services to central London
- York Station - bays for Hull, Harrogate, Scarborough and some Leeds/Preston/Manchester services.