OKsomone must know when was the last time.....

[Deleted User X18H]

..Platform 4 at Preston Park Station was in use.............I remember getting off on it during the fairly hot summer of 1983. (oh the memories taking a bird down the rockery)

Maybe it was somthing to do with the Brighton signal box fire anyway any specific year and month would appreciate info if any one knows!!!

 

[Uncle Buck]

Cannot say I can, but the station does seem fine without it being used, which is nice.

 

[British Bulldog]

..Platform 4 at Preston Park Station was in use.............I remember getting off on it during the fairly hot summer of 1983. (oh the memories taking a bird down the rockery)

Maybe it was somthing to do with the Brighton signal box fire anyway any specific year and month would appreciate info if any one knows!!!

I know the whole area was relaid not long after the signalbox fire but cant help you on specific dates, I'm sure there used to be an old relief line from preston park to brighton that was taken out at the same time, That would be a useful thing to have back again.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I once travelled on this train to Preston Park (late eighties/early nineties). I can't remember if we parked up on Platform 4, but it's quite possible.

 

[pasty]

There is quite often an empty train parked on Platform 4 when the 0647 from Brighton stops there.

 

[Ernest]

The April 1985 resignalling scheme knocked out Platform 4 at Preston Park as well as Platform 8 at Brighton

 

[Frutos]

The April 1985 resignalling scheme knocked out Platform 4 at Preston Park as well as Platform 8 at Brighton

Platform 8 is still in regular use though (trains go from there to Lewes, Eastbourne and Seaford).

 

[Barrel of Fun]

There is quite often an empty train parked on Platform 4 when the 0647 from Brighton stops there.

I think platform 4 is the disused track adjacent to Station Rd/Claremont Terrace, now overgrown, as opposed to the one of the other side of PP station, isn't it or am I going mad?

 

[See-Goals]

I've also seen it used as a layby for empty trains when I've got a train earlier than my usual 7:37.

Imagine my excitement a few weeks ago when my return journey used platform 3 to stop at.

That was the bestest ever.

 

[pasty]

I think platform 4 is the disused track adjacent to Station Rd/Claremont Terrace, now overgrown, as opposed to the one of the other side of PP station, isn't it or am I going mad?

I mean the one on the side of the Station pub. Is that platform 1 ?

 

[Ernest]

Platform 8 is still in regular use though (trains go from there to Lewes, Eastbourne and Seaford).

Oops mean Platform 9 which is now the walkway to car park

 

[Collar Feeler]

Tim, if you ever took a bird down the Rockery in 83, she must have been drugged!! I'd be mightily surprised if you ever 'took' a bird before about 1990

 

[bhafc99]

Imagine my excitement a few weeks ago when my return journey used platform 3 to stop at.

That was the bestest ever.

Comparable to my excitement the first time I used Platform Zero at Edinburgh Haymarket, following the station refurb last year.

None of this "Platform 1A" nonsense, let's just go for a surrealist "Platform 0" and confuse the heck out of all the tourists come festival time!

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I mean the one on the side of the Station pub. Is that platform 1 ?

as well.

I have never really paid attention to the platform numbers, even though I used to commute from there.

There are currently three active lines and as you say that one by the pub has been used recently, so I assumed Tim was talking about a fourth and that being the other side. Hmmm.... We need an answer goddamn it!

 

[Man of Harveys]

I mean the one on the side of the Station pub. Is that platform 1 ?

Yes it is - that's used quite a lot.

I'd also like to know who decided in the early 70s that big, proper real old station buildings like this we'ren't better than the grotty little bus shelters there now:

 

[SurreySeagulls]

Plus there is some nice flora and forna on he platform, much better than tierd looking flower baskets.

 

[Easy 10]

This has to be one of the most enthralling threads of the year.

 

[bigc]

Oops mean Platform 9 which is now the walkway to car park

I thought Platform 9 was still in use till the early 1990s? I certainly remember the sign still being up..

 

[Northstander]

This has to be one of the most enthralling threads of the year.

 

[The Large One]

This has to be one of the most enthralling threads of the year.

Wait til we start on Hartington Road Halt.