With both through and terminating platforms, Ilkley station in the 1950s provides a good prototype example of this arrangement. The simplified and condensed track plan includes goods facilities and even a small engine shed, with its own allocation of ex-LMS and ex-LNER locos. In the terminating platforms, the centre road would be used for carriage storage, whilst the lack of run-round loop means that a station pilot is required. Through tracks run through the town centre onto Bolton Abbey and Skipton.