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.

1 Overview
2 Dock platforms
3 Stations with bay platforms
4 See also

[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 - for Llandudno branch line services
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 through services between Bournemouth and Manchester, which have to reverse direction in the station, go into a bay platform and then out again.
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.