Haythornthwaite & Westby Tea Railway - town station planning

[clayliner]

Something rather different from the station in Bagan, but an example of a split-level / dual gauge station (sadly no more). It's the station in Guardiola, in Catalonia:

Guardiola 2 by clayliner, on Flickr

and in that old photo you can see the broad-er gauge yard on the right. You can also just see it in this picture:

Guardiola 5 by clayliner, on Flickr

which is taken from the far end, and shows the n-g Asland Cement Railway at a higher level on the other side of the station building.

This is the same scene in more recent times, taken from more or less the same place as the previous one:

Guardiola  estacio 3 by clayliner, on Flickr

Although I said 'sadly no more' as you can see the bulding itself has been lovingly preserved (it's now the Tourist Information Centre) although the trains have (inevitably) been replaced by cars.

There are probably other examples of two-level stations - the other one which springs to mind is at Hayle (GWR) where I think the St Ives branch line is on a slightly lower level to the main line.

David.