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is a very basic railway station with just a raised platform and small shelter are vast, grand buildings with many tracksA train station is a place where trains make scheduled stops. Stations usually have one or more Railway platform constructed alongside a line of railway. However, railway stations come in many different configurations - influenced by such factors as the geographical nature of the site, or the need to serve more than one route, which may or may not be connected, and the Rail transport#Level. Examples include:

This page presents some examples of these more unusual station layouts.

Location-specific In a tunnel in Oslo, Norway, is located in a tunnel beneath the cityWhile many railways stations are at ground level, in cities the railway and hence the station platforms are often on an elevated level to facilitate crossings. Also the particular geography of a line sometimes dictates they be elevated (on a bridge, viaduct or Embankment (transportation)), or be built below the level of the adjoining terrain (in a Cutting (transportation)) or inside a tunnel. Examples of individual tunnel stations (i.e. not forming part of a complete metro or underground railway, system) are:

Australia:

Belgium:

Canada:

Denmark:

France:

Germany:

Hong Kong:

Italy:

Japan:

Monaco:

The Netherlands:

New Zealand:

Norway:

Poland:

Switzerland:

Taiwan:

United Kingdom:

United States of America:

At a rail-rail crossing in east London the c2c National Rail line and the London Underground District Line (on the same tracks as the Hammersmith and City Line) pass over the London Underground Jubilee Line on the bridge in the background

in Norristown, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania.

Some stations, situated where two rail routes cross at different levels, serve both lines. Examples include:

The Netherlands:

Germany:

Poland

Australia:

United Kingdom:

United States:

It was and still is common in the United States for stations to be located where two line cross at the same level, often without a connection between them.

Rare examples in the United Kingdom include:



On a public road In Oakland's Jack London Square, the Amtrak and Capitol Corridor rail services, as well as through freight trains, actually operate along the street, with tracks embedded in the pavement (much the same way a tram would be expected to operate). The station itself is in a structure some yards away from the platforms.

Geometry-specific Triangular It is not unknown for a station to have platforms on all three sides of a triangle. If triangular stations are not properly designed, they can have curves that are too sharp, while the legs of the triangle can be too short to fit a train.

Hong Kong:

United Kingdom:

Vee (open triangle) , EnglandStations located in the V of a junction include:

Australia

France

Germany

Republic of Ireland

The Netherlands:

Switzerland

United Kingdom

United States

Unusual platform or track Belgium:

France:

in the United Kingdom. This platform, for trains to Looe, is at right angles to the mainline platforms, which lie parallel to the wall in the foregroundIreland (see rail transport in Ireland):

South Korea:

United Kingdom:













With or on balloon loop A balloon loop is a track arrangement that allows a train to reverse direction without shunting or having to stop.



On two or more levels Stations are sometimes built at two levels so as to provide level access to a township that is located on one side only. One level is for trains going one way, and the other level for the other way. Metro system as general practice have multilevel stations where lines intersect, usually without any connection for the trains, and these are too numerous to list here. Some unusual examples include:









Terminus

A reversal station is where a continuing train has to change direction, because the station is or has become a terminal of two lines.





















Multiple lines Joint stations Since passenger interchange between different lines can be important, independent companies often but not always build joint stations so that all activities are concentrated at the one location.



Disjoint stations Examples abound in the UK, where it was common for the many different companies that built the rail network to each build their own main station in a town. In some cases settlements with populations of a few thousand would have three railway stations. Examples include:



In the United States:



Platform numbering Platforms are normally numbered, often according to principles that differ from country to country (or even from railway to railway).

In Denmark platform numbers traditionally start from the station building, regardless of the direction of the line as such.

In France, platforms bear letters as designations. Except some stations in Paris, where the platform number exceeds 26, such as Gare Saint-Lazare with 27 numbered platforms, platforms are always given letters.

In the United Kingdom the numbering usually starts from the left when looking in the "up" direction of the line (i.e., towards the capital or other principal destination), although some stations do not carry this characteristic e.g Leicester railway station. Letters are sometimes used in order to avoid confusion with nearby numbered platforms; thus the platforms at Waterloo East station are designated A–D to distinguish them from those at Waterloo station with which they form a single complex. When lines are removed, platform numbers are not necessarily updated to reflect this fact, such as at Shrewsbury railway station and Lincoln Central railway station where platforms 1 and 2 have no railway. At Manchester Victoria station Platform numbers are given to National Rail services and Letters A, B and C are given to Manchester Metrolink platforms to avoid confusion between the two systems.

In Victoria (Australia), Australia platforms are numbered. Stations with only one platform are only numbered within the metropolitan network (Metlink). Stations with two platforms are usually numbered so that platform 1 is the city/Melbourne-bound ("up") service and platform 2 is the outbound ("down") service. In the suburban network of Melbourne a third platform is usually reserved for local services during the peak hours and the second platform used by express services. Stations with four platforms are usually at stations with two or more lines passing through. In the off-peak platforms 1 and 3 would be inbound "up" services and platforms 2 and 4 would be for the outbound "down" services. Two inner city stations, North Melbourne and Richmond, have several platforms. Again, odd number platforms are for the "up" trains and the even number platforms are for the "down" trains, often with a platform serving one line each or a group of lines.

Road stations Many stations are not located near the towns which they purport to serve. Some stations include the word "Road" in their name, indicating that they are "on the road to such-and-such".



However, care should be taken: some Road stations are simply named after nearby roads. Derby Road (Ipswich) railway station station in Ipswich is not anywhere near Derby, for example.

In recent years the designation "Parkway" has become popular for a station some distance from the town or city it serves, but which has a large car park attached. A notable example is Bristol Parkway railway station.

In Germany this is manifested most often in the form of a station being called by the name of the town it serves, but with the express 'bahnhof' terminology. In many instances these stations were constructed during the early years of railway development, and towns have since grown up either independently around the proximity of the station, or increased in size to eventually include the station. The best examples are:



This practice can also be found in Italy (e.g. Montepulciano Stazione) and in many other countries.

In New South Wales, Australia, a few stations are named for the locality they are situated but are stations representing a larger nearby centre. Examples of such are Bomaderry, the station for Nowra (indicated on CityRail maps and timetables as "Bomaderry (Nowra)"), and Dunmore, the stations for Shellharbour (indicated as "Dunmore (Shellharbour)".

Platforms high and low The height of platforms has a bearing on station layout design.

With high level platforms following British practice, wide platforms are normal, with wide track centres when island platforms are provided. Access to inner platforms is usually via footbridges and subways.

With low level platforms such as in many places in North America, platforms are typically narrow. There is usually one platform on each side of every track, while access to inner platforms is via a pedestrian crossing at grade.

Subway systems the world over generally have high level platforms for quick access to the trains.

Trains may be fitted for high or low platforms and sometimes have folding stairs or "trap doors" on internal stairs to match both high and low platforms. In the United States, New Jersey Transit accommodates high platforms at all its car doors and low platforms using longer doors and trap-doored steps at the ends of the car. With this setup the middle doors in a car do not open to low platforms.

Since broad gauge trains are typically wider than narrow gauge railway trains, they can share low level platforms, but may not be able to share high level platforms.

Longest platforms

Large stations This is a list of largest railway stations in the world in terms of number of tracks (where 20 is taken as a minimum definition of 'large'). Note that the number of platforms is usually smaller, as many of these stations have island platforms, with a track on each side.

The way tracks are counted is not uniform; a long track may be counted as two if two trains can be parked there, etc.{] || Manhattan, New York City || [Paris || [Tokyo ] || Munich, Germany ] || Birmingham, United Kingdom ] use a 'double' platform in essence, as such length requires both the 'a' and 'b' section of the platform. There are 12 through platforms, with three bay platforms although only one is used for passenger trains.|-| 30 || Manchester Piccadilly station || Manchester, United Kingdom ] Platforms.|-| 30 || Tokyo Station ] |||-| 29 || Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof ], Germany ] || Manhattan, New York City ], New Jersey Transit, and the Long Island Rail Road. The station complex also has two separate New York City Subway stations with 4 tracks each.] || Rome ] || London, United Kingdom ] and Waterloo East.] || Paris ] || Paris ] || London ] || Zürich ] || Sydney ] scheme, announced 2005 || [Tokyo ] platforms lie even deeper; 4 platforms of Keisei Ueno Station not included] || Cape Town ] || Leipzig, Germany ] || Milan ] || Hoboken, New Jersey, New Jersey ] tracks and 3 Hudson-Bergen Light Rail tracks along the river, plus 3 Port Authority Trans-Hudson tracks underground.|-| 23 || Kyoto Station ], Japan ], 3 for Kintetsu and 2 for subway] || Saitama, Japan ] included|-| 22 || Nagoya Station ], Japan ] || Kolkata, India ] || Brussels ] || Tokyo ] || Düsseldorf, Germany ] || Chicago ] and Metra trains.] || London ] || Stockholm ] is a very basic railway station with just a raised platform and small shelter are vast, grand buildings with many tracksA train station is a place where trains make scheduled stops. Stations usually have one or more Railway platform constructed alongside a line of railway. However, railway stations come in many different configurations - influenced by such factors as the geographical nature of the site, or the need to serve more than one route, which may or may not be connected, and the Rail transport#Level. Examples include:

This page presents some examples of these more unusual station layouts.

Location-specific In a tunnel in Oslo, Norway, is located in a tunnel beneath the cityWhile many railways stations are at ground level, in cities the railway and hence the station platforms are often on an elevated level to facilitate crossings. Also the particular geography of a line sometimes dictates they be elevated (on a bridge, viaduct or Embankment (transportation)), or be built below the level of the adjoining terrain (in a Cutting (transportation)) or inside a tunnel. Examples of individual tunnel stations (i.e. not forming part of a complete metro or underground railway, system) are:

Australia:

Belgium:

Canada:

Denmark:

France:

Germany:

Hong Kong:

Italy:

Japan:

Monaco:

The Netherlands:

New Zealand:

Norway:

Poland:

Switzerland:

Taiwan:

United Kingdom:

United States of America:

At a rail-rail crossing in east London the c2c National Rail line and the London Underground District Line (on the same tracks as the Hammersmith and City Line) pass over the London Underground Jubilee Line on the bridge in the background

in Norristown, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania.

Some stations, situated where two rail routes cross at different levels, serve both lines. Examples include:

The Netherlands:

Germany:

Poland

Australia:

United Kingdom:

United States:

It was and still is common in the United States for stations to be located where two line cross at the same level, often without a connection between them.

Rare examples in the United Kingdom include:



On a public road In Oakland's Jack London Square, the Amtrak and Capitol Corridor rail services, as well as through freight trains, actually operate along the street, with tracks embedded in the pavement (much the same way a tram would be expected to operate). The station itself is in a structure some yards away from the platforms.

Geometry-specific Triangular It is not unknown for a station to have platforms on all three sides of a triangle. If triangular stations are not properly designed, they can have curves that are too sharp, while the legs of the triangle can be too short to fit a train.

Hong Kong:

United Kingdom:

Vee (open triangle) , EnglandStations located in the V of a junction include:

Australia

France

Germany

Republic of Ireland

The Netherlands:

Switzerland

United Kingdom

United States

Unusual platform or track Belgium:

France:

in the United Kingdom. This platform, for trains to Looe, is at right angles to the mainline platforms, which lie parallel to the wall in the foregroundIreland (see rail transport in Ireland):

South Korea:

United Kingdom:













With or on balloon loop A balloon loop is a track arrangement that allows a train to reverse direction without shunting or having to stop.



On two or more levels Stations are sometimes built at two levels so as to provide level access to a township that is located on one side only. One level is for trains going one way, and the other level for the other way. Metro system as general practice have multilevel stations where lines intersect, usually without any connection for the trains, and these are too numerous to list here. Some unusual examples include:









Terminus

A reversal station is where a continuing train has to change direction, because the station is or has become a terminal of two lines.





















Multiple lines Joint stations Since passenger interchange between different lines can be important, independent companies often but not always build joint stations so that all activities are concentrated at the one location.



Disjoint stations Examples abound in the UK, where it was common for the many different companies that built the rail network to each build their own main station in a town. In some cases settlements with populations of a few thousand would have three railway stations. Examples include:



In the United States:



Platform numbering Platforms are normally numbered, often according to principles that differ from country to country (or even from railway to railway).

In Denmark platform numbers traditionally start from the station building, regardless of the direction of the line as such.

In France, platforms bear letters as designations. Except some stations in Paris, where the platform number exceeds 26, such as Gare Saint-Lazare with 27 numbered platforms, platforms are always given letters.

In the United Kingdom the numbering usually starts from the left when looking in the "up" direction of the line (i.e., towards the capital or other principal destination), although some stations do not carry this characteristic e.g Leicester railway station. Letters are sometimes used in order to avoid confusion with nearby numbered platforms; thus the platforms at Waterloo East station are designated A–D to distinguish them from those at Waterloo station with which they form a single complex. When lines are removed, platform numbers are not necessarily updated to reflect this fact, such as at Shrewsbury railway station and Lincoln Central railway station where platforms 1 and 2 have no railway. At Manchester Victoria station Platform numbers are given to National Rail services and Letters A, B and C are given to Manchester Metrolink platforms to avoid confusion between the two systems.

In Victoria (Australia), Australia platforms are numbered. Stations with only one platform are only numbered within the metropolitan network (Metlink). Stations with two platforms are usually numbered so that platform 1 is the city/Melbourne-bound ("up") service and platform 2 is the outbound ("down") service. In the suburban network of Melbourne a third platform is usually reserved for local services during the peak hours and the second platform used by express services. Stations with four platforms are usually at stations with two or more lines passing through. In the off-peak platforms 1 and 3 would be inbound "up" services and platforms 2 and 4 would be for the outbound "down" services. Two inner city stations, North Melbourne and Richmond, have several platforms. Again, odd number platforms are for the "up" trains and the even number platforms are for the "down" trains, often with a platform serving one line each or a group of lines.

Road stations Many stations are not located near the towns which they purport to serve. Some stations include the word "Road" in their name, indicating that they are "on the road to such-and-such".



However, care should be taken: some Road stations are simply named after nearby roads. Derby Road (Ipswich) railway station station in Ipswich is not anywhere near Derby, for example.

In recent years the designation "Parkway" has become popular for a station some distance from the town or city it serves, but which has a large car park attached. A notable example is Bristol Parkway railway station.

In Germany this is manifested most often in the form of a station being called by the name of the town it serves, but with the express 'bahnhof' terminology. In many instances these stations were constructed during the early years of railway development, and towns have since grown up either independently around the proximity of the station, or increased in size to eventually include the station. The best examples are:



This practice can also be found in Italy (e.g. Montepulciano Stazione) and in many other countries.

In New South Wales, Australia, a few stations are named for the locality they are situated but are stations representing a larger nearby centre. Examples of such are Bomaderry, the station for Nowra (indicated on CityRail maps and timetables as "Bomaderry (Nowra)"), and Dunmore, the stations for Shellharbour (indicated as "Dunmore (Shellharbour)".

Platforms high and low The height of platforms has a bearing on station layout design.

With high level platforms following British practice, wide platforms are normal, with wide track centres when island platforms are provided. Access to inner platforms is usually via footbridges and subways.

With low level platforms such as in many places in North America, platforms are typically narrow. There is usually one platform on each side of every track, while access to inner platforms is via a pedestrian crossing at grade.

Subway systems the world over generally have high level platforms for quick access to the trains.

Trains may be fitted for high or low platforms and sometimes have folding stairs or "trap doors" on internal stairs to match both high and low platforms. In the United States, New Jersey Transit accommodates high platforms at all its car doors and low platforms using longer doors and trap-doored steps at the ends of the car. With this setup the middle doors in a car do not open to low platforms.

Since broad gauge trains are typically wider than narrow gauge railway trains, they can share low level platforms, but may not be able to share high level platforms.

Longest platforms

Large stations This is a list of largest railway stations in the world in terms of number of tracks (where 20 is taken as a minimum definition of 'large'). Note that the number of platforms is usually smaller, as many of these stations have island platforms, with a track on each side.

The way tracks are counted is not uniform; a long track may be counted as two if two trains can be parked there, etc.{] || Manhattan, New York City || [Paris || [Tokyo ] || Munich, Germany ] || Birmingham, United Kingdom ] use a 'double' platform in essence, as such length requires both the 'a' and 'b' section of the platform. There are 12 through platforms, with three bay platforms although only one is used for passenger trains.|-| 30 || Manchester Piccadilly station || Manchester, United Kingdom ] Platforms.|-| 30 || Tokyo Station ] |||-| 29 || Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof ], Germany ] || Manhattan, New York City ], New Jersey Transit, and the Long Island Rail Road. The station complex also has two separate New York City Subway stations with 4 tracks each.] || Rome ] || London, United Kingdom ] and Waterloo East.] || Paris ] || Paris ] || London ] || Zürich ] || Sydney ] scheme, announced 2005 || [Tokyo ] platforms lie even deeper; 4 platforms of Keisei Ueno Station not included] || Cape Town ] || Leipzig, Germany ] || Milan ] || Hoboken, New Jersey, New Jersey ] tracks and 3 Hudson-Bergen Light Rail tracks along the river, plus 3 Port Authority Trans-Hudson tracks underground.|-| 23 || Kyoto Station ], Japan ], 3 for Kintetsu and 2 for subway] || Saitama, Japan ] included|-| 22 || Nagoya Station ], Japan ] || Kolkata, India ] || Brussels ] || Tokyo ] || Düsseldorf, Germany ] || Chicago ] and Metra trains.] || London ] || Stockholm ]

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