as per subject :)

"Dave"  wrote in message 
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> as per subject :)

Not as such, but there is a little on street parking, in what is a 
residential area. Not much of a train service though, and come to think of 
it not much of a platform ( one coach at a push)

Dave wrote:

> as per subject :)


As per request :-
http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/index.html?a=findStation&station_query=+Dilton+Marsh+%28WIltshire%29

Dave wrote:


> as per subject :) 


Please don't do that - it is much easier for everyone to read if you
put the question in the message body.

From www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations, type in Ditton Marsh:
	Car Park 			No
	Number of parking spaces	0

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In message , at 
09:03:27 on Sat, 6 Aug 2005, 0.7ohm Drop Shunt  
remarked:

>http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/index.html?a=findStation&station_query=+Dilton+Marsh+%28WIltshire%29


A truly impressive set of "No, we don't do that"; all except the 
step-free access.

Meanwhile, how many (of the very small) platforms are there? If it's 
just the one, why is interchange time set at 5 minutes rather than zero?
-- 
Roland Perry

> Meanwhile, how many (of the very small) platforms are there? If it's
> just the one, why is interchange time set at 5 minutes rather than zero?
> -- 

There's two platforms, one in each direction, each one-car long.  Imagine a 
rail bridge that goes over a road.   From one side of the bridge, and its 
quite high, is a long ramp which bends a couple of times up to the platform 
going away from the bridge. Go under the road bridge and on the oposite side 
is another ramp up to the platform going in the oposite direction. The two 
platforms are far one another. 5 minutes is very optimistic, 15 is more like 
it. Doesn't Dilton Marsh have the title of the UK's shortest platform??

"turbo"  wrote in message 
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>
>> Meanwhile, how many (of the very small) platforms are there? If it's
>> just the one, why is interchange time set at 5 minutes rather than zero?


I've uploaded a fot to news://alt.binaries.pictures.rail  from which can be 
seen the handrails on top of the roadbridge, and the second platform, taken 
from a spot opposite the first one. The two platforms are just about visible 
from each other, because of the bend in the track.

On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 17:38:00 GMT someone who may be "turbo"
 wrote this:-


>Doesn't Dilton Marsh have the title of the UK's shortest platform??


I imagine Beauly has that title.


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In message <Yz6Je.83726$G8.75901@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk>, at 
17:38:00 on Sat, 6 Aug 2005, turbo  remarked:

>
>> Meanwhile, how many (of the very small) platforms are there? If it's
>> just the one, why is interchange time set at 5 minutes rather than zero?

>There's two platforms, one in each direction, each one-car long.  Imagine a
>rail bridge that goes over a road.   From one side of the bridge, and its
>quite high, is a long ramp which bends a couple of times up to the platform
>going away from the bridge. Go under the road bridge and on the oposite side
>is another ramp up to the platform going in the oposite direction. The two
>platforms are far one another. 5 minutes is very optimistic, 15 is more like
>it.


Fair enough.


>Doesn't Dilton Marsh have the title of the UK's shortest platform??


It is regularly claimed, but currently Beauly heads up web searches, and 
that's if you ignore very short platforms which can be seen at some 
depots (eg Wimbledon Staff Halt and another alongside Hornsey Depot).
-- 
Roland Perry

"Roland Perry"  wrote>

> It is regularly claimed, but currently Beauly heads up web searches, and
> that's if you ignore very short platforms which can be seen at some
> depots (eg Wimbledon Staff Halt and another alongside Hornsey Depot).


Battersea Pier Staff Halt looks to me to be shorter than the Wimbledon one.

I was once on a train from Kyle of Lochalsh, when a passeger wished to
alight at Duncraig. The train had to draw up twice to get the platform
adjacent to the door the passenger was using.

Peter

"0.7ohm Drop Shunt"  wrote in message 
news:1123344207.492646.121110@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...

>
> Dave wrote:
>> as per subject :)
>
> As per request :-
> http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/index.html?a=findStation&station_query=+Dilton+Marsh+%28WIltshire%29
>


Thanks a lot.

> > depots (eg Wimbledon Staff Halt and another alongside Hornsey Depot).

> Battersea Pier Staff Halt looks to me to be shorter than the Wimbledon one.



The third rail sub-station south of Buriton tunnel on the Portsmouth
direct (Ditcham sub-station) has a short platform section for staff
that I would suggest is less than either of the above. Although it does
have a much longer ledge about one car length set back from the track,
a very short section maybe less than 1 metre long, is further out
towards the Up line making a platform. Some time few years ago when it
was easy to do such things, I was on an Up train that actually stopped
there to pick up technicians. I am not sure about road access to this
location - theres are tracks marked on OS maps but it is all private
forestry land for some way all around here. However, I don't think this
even would count as a staff halt in the conventional sense of the term.


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Peter Masson wrote:

> "Roland Perry"  wrote>
> > It is regularly claimed, but currently Beauly heads up web searches, and
> > that's if you ignore very short platforms which can be seen at some
> > depots (eg Wimbledon Staff Halt and another alongside Hornsey Depot).
>
> Battersea Pier Staff Halt looks to me to be shorter than the Wimbledon one.



"Usable" lengths (actual platform may be longer, but with part out of
use), rounded to integer:

Battersea Pier -  3m
Dilton Marsh   - 15m each
Beauly         - 16yds
Gilfach Fargoed- 16m each
Berney Arms    - 18m
Sugar Loaf     - 21m
Durnsford Road - 27m

So it's very close between Dilton Marsh and Beauly.  The latter
probably "has it" on account of being a single platform, and is thus
"smaller" overall.  However, I seem to recall that it actually has
rather a lot of old, disused platform tacked on the end.  Counting
these bits would distort the figures somewhat.

Wimbledon depot (Durnsford Road) is surprisingly long.


PhilD

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PhilD wrote:


> Dilton Marsh   - 15m each
> Beauly         - 16yds



Oooh I can see a pedant war coming over whether or not one is 16 yards
to the nearest yard or the other 15 metres to the nearest metre and
what conversion factors are used.


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D7666 wrote:

> Oooh I can see a pedant war coming over whether or not one is 16 yards
> to the nearest yard or the other 15 metres to the nearest metre and
> what conversion factors are used.



....which is why I presented the data "as is", and didn't try to make
those decisions myself!

:-)

PhilD

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PhilD wrote:


> ...which is why I presented the data "as is", and didn't try to make
> those decisions myself!
> 
> :-)




:o)

GMTA. Likewise I did not attempt to !!!


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