Why is this platform never used? I think I have seen it being used once! Has anyone regularly used this platform?
2006-08-04 12:54:41 · 8 answers · asked by Master_Of_The_Web 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Rail
It cannot be a passing platform as at one end there is the passenger waiting room!
It is at the non town side! that is south (kind of east) it is very much like the south heading equivalent of platform 3 (the one that stops going to waterloo) so didn't know if there was a service to Southampton or Portsmouth.
I too have also seen it holding the recovery diesel thing but was wondering about passenger services!
2006-08-04 13:18:01 · update #1
it is a old bay platform.. as you say, used by the service recovery engines..... if there is engineering work it is sometimes used by the local trains..............
2006-08-08 06:16:58 · answer #1 · answered by paulrb8 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ignoring the idiots who gave answers 1,2 +3, I'm looking at the Rail Atlas of GB right now: Unfortunately it's not so detailed as to show the platforms, but the following little bit of info might be of use and will hopefully mean more to you than it does to me !
The line comes in from West Byfleet, and at Woking a route diverges to the left (I'm facing south-west of course) and is the route to Guildford. The 'straight ahead' route goes on to Brookwood and then Pirbright Junction (from which branches go to Aldershot or Fleet), and there is a branch off to the right which leads to the Civil Engineering Dept. Just beyond Woking on the left-hand route there is a "trailing" junction (they have to be reversed into) to Redland and Day Aggregates stone terminals. I hope with this little bit of info everything will 'fall into place' for you. Best wishes. It's an interesting question - and like I say, pity about the silly answers at the beginning.
2006-08-05 05:45:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is the bay platform at the western end on the down side?
As all trains now come from or go to Waterloo there is no service that 'can' use it. I can only ever remember seeing it used as a parking bay for a locomotive or the occasional goods van.
2006-08-04 20:07:50 · answer #3 · answered by Martin G 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because train companies have to pay to use platforms thats one of the benefits of rail privatization
2006-08-04 20:07:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no i think it is just a pasing platform. stand on it one day and see if anything stops for you.
2006-08-04 19:59:06 · answer #5 · answered by gaulde 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont use woking station very much. more familier with west byfleet. didnt know it wsnt used.
2006-08-04 19:59:07 · answer #6 · answered by doodlepol 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No! But I love your question! I've been to Woking...once, briefly. It rained.
2006-08-04 19:57:45 · answer #7 · answered by dorothy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dunno
2006-08-04 19:57:23 · answer #8 · answered by cookedermott 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋