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Quick follow up to Rolands comment about overgrown platforms on the Woking-WAterloo line. I checked on the way up to London this morning and
the three stations are Walton-on-Thames, Esher and New Malden. Other
stations just have the platforms on the slow lines. By Wimbledon the
tracks are paired by use rather than direction.
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Graeme Wall
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In message <10nnr8u$150vu$3@dont-email.me>, at 21:57:50 on Wed, 25 Feb
2026, Graeme Wall <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> remarked:

Quick follow up to Rolands comment about overgrown platforms on the >Woking-WAterloo line. I checked on the way up to London this morning
and the three stations are Walton-on-Thames, Esher and New Malden.
Other stations just have the platforms on the slow lines. By Wimbledon
the tracks are paired by use rather than direction.

At Ely, from west to east there used to be: Down loop with platform, unplatformed down through line, Up through line with island platform,
the other face being Up loop, and one or two goods loops.

The layout was altered I think when the line was electrified, and the
Down loop was removed, the platform widened to form the current platform
1. Thus its original avoiding-the-platforms line now having a platform
face.

It also breaks the usual convention that Platform 1 is the Up platform
for London.
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Roland Perry
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Graeme Wall <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote:

Quick follow up to Rolands comment about overgrown platforms on the Woking-WAterloo line. I checked on the way up to London this morning and
the three stations are Walton-on-Thames, Esher and New Malden. Other stations just have the platforms on the slow lines. By Wimbledon the
tracks are paired by use rather than direction.

They are not overgrown as they are Island platforms but the faces adjoining
the Piccadilly line tracks at Ravenscourt Park only see a train stop at
them on rare occasions when engineering works occur.
The station on the LSWR Richmond to Kensington line was rebuilt circa 1911
to better accommodate the District Railways electric service towards Acton
which used the southerly pair of tracks while the other pair was used by
the LSWR . The District service soon killed the traffic on the LSWR route
to the extent it was closed in 1916 and apart from the Viaduct at
Hammersmith the route to Kensington via Shepherds Bush has been
obliterated The LSWR tracks remained unused until the 1930rCOs when the Piccadilly line was extended to Uxbridge and Hounslow. That saw the tracks reorganised by directional pairs with District on the outer and the non stopping Piccadilly on the inner the arrangement which continues today.


GH
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