Train station

A train station, railway station, railroad station or depot

is a railway facility or area where trains regularly stop to load or
unload passengers or freight or both. It generally consists of at
least one track-side platform and a station building (depot)
providing such ancillary services as ticket sales, waiting rooms
and baggage/freight service. If a station is on a single-track line, it
often has a passing loop to facilitate traffic movements. The
smallest stations are most often referred to as "stops" or, in some
parts of the world, as "halts" (flag stops).
The New York City Subway is the
world's largest single-operator rapid
Stations may be at ground level, underground or elevated.
transit system by number of metro
Connections may be available to intersecting rail lines or other
stations, at 472.
transport modes such as buses, trams or other rapid transit
systems.

Contents
Terminology
History
Station facilities
Station configurations
Tracks
Terminus
Stop
Halt
Accessibility
Goods stations
Records
Worldwide
Europe
North America
Asia
Gallery
See also
Notes
References
External links

Terminology
In British English, traditional usage favours railway station or simply station, even though train
station, which is often perceived as an Americanism, is now about as common as railway station in
writing; railroad station is not used, railroad being obsolete there.[1][2][3] In British usage, the word
station is commonly understood to mean a railway station unless otherwise qualified.[4]

In American English, the most common term in contemporary usage is train station; railroad station
and railway station are less common, though they have been more common in the past.[5]

In the United States, the term depot is sometimes used as an alternative name for station, along with
the compound forms train depot, railway depot and railroad depot - it is used for both passenger
and freight facilities.[6] The term depot is not used in reference to vehicle maintenance facilities in
American English where it is the UK, and even neighbouring Canada, for example.

History
The world's first recorded railway station was The Mount on
the Oystermouth Railway (later to be known as the Swansea
and Mumbles) in Swansea, Wales,[11] which began passenger
service in 1807, although the trains were horsedrawn rather
than by locomotives.[12] The two-storey Mount Clare station
in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, which survives as a
museum, first saw passenger service as the terminus of the
horse-drawn Baltimore and Ohio Railroad on 22 May Broad Green station, Liverpool, England,
1830.[13] shown in 1962, opened in 1830, is the
oldest station site in the world still in use
The oldest terminal as a passenger station.
station in the world was
Crown Street railway
station in Liverpool,
built in 1830, on the
locomotive-hauled
Liverpool to Manchester
line. The station was
slightly older than the
Train station with train and coal depot
still extant Liverpool
by Gustave Le Gray, 1850s to 1860s Road railway station
terminal in Manchester. Baker Street station, London, opened in
The station was the first 1863, was the world's first station to be
to incorporate a train shed. Crown Street station was completely underground. Its original part,
seen here, is just below the surface and
was constructed by cut-and-cover
demolished in 1836, as the Liverpool terminal station moved tunnelling.
to Lime Street railway station. Crown Street station was
converted to a goods station terminal.

The first stations had little in the way of buildings or

amenities. The first stations in the modern sense were on the
Liverpool and Manchester Railway, opened in 1830.[14]
Manchester's Liverpool Road Station, the second oldest
terminal station in the world, is preserved as part of the
Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. It resembles
a row of Georgian houses.

Early stations were sometimes built with both passenger and Liverpool Lime Street station's frontage
goods facilities, though some railway lines were goods-only resembles a château and is the world's
or passenger-only, and if a line was dual-purpose there oldest used terminus
would often be a goods depot apart from the passenger
station.[15]

Dual-purpose stations can sometimes still be found today,

though in many cases goods facilities are restricted to major
stations. In rural and remote communities across Canada
and the United States, passengers wanting to board the train
had to flag the train down in order for it to stop. Such
stations were known as "flag stops" or "flag stations".[16]

Many stations date from the 19th century and reflect the
Gare du Nord is one of the six large
grandiose architecture of the time, lending prestige to the terminus stations of the SNCF mainline
city as well as to railway operations.[17] Countries where network for Paris. It is the busiest railroad
railways arrived later may still have such architecture, as station outside Japan, serving 206.7
later stations often imitated 19th-century styles. Various million commuter rail, French Intercités
forms of architecture have been used in the construction of and high-speed TGV, and international
stations, from those boasting grand, intricate, Baroque- or (Eurostar, Thalys) rail passengers a year
Gothic-style edifices, to plainer utilitarian or modernist as of 2016.[7][8][9]
styles. Stations in Europe tended to follow British designs
and were in some countries, like Italy, financed by British
railway companies.[18]

Stations built more recently often have a similar feel to

airports, with a simple, abstract style. Examples of modern
stations include those on newer high-speed rail networks,
such as the Shinkansen in Japan, THSR in the Republic of
China, TGV lines in France and ICE lines in Germany.

Station facilities Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan, New

York City, United States, is an important
railway terminal and transfer hub as well
as the busiest railroad station in the
Western Hemisphere, serving more than
Stations usually have staffed ticket sales offices, automated 430,000 commuter rail and Amtrak
ticket machines, or both, although on some lines tickets are passengers a day as of 2018.[10]
sold on board the trains. Many stations include a shop or
convenience store. Larger stations usually have fast-food or
restaurant facilities. In some countries, stations may also have a
bar or pub. Other station facilities may include: toilets, left-
luggage, lost-and-found, departures and arrivals boards, luggage
carts, waiting rooms, taxi ranks, bus bays and even car parks.
Larger or manned stations tend to have a greater range of
facilities including also a station security office. These are usually
open for travellers when there is sufficient traffic over a long
enough period of time to warrant the cost. In large cities this may
mean facilities available around the clock. A basic station might
only have platforms, though it may still be distinguished from a
halt, a stopping or halting place that may not even have
platforms.

Many stations, either larger or smaller, offer interchange with

local transportation; this can vary from a simple bus stop across
the street to underground rapid-transit urban rail stations.
A Presto card and single ticket
In many African, South American, and Asian countries, stations machine at a suburban train station
are also used as a place for public markets and other informal in Toronto
businesses. This is especially true on tourist routes or stations
near tourist destinations.

As well as providing services for passengers and loading facilities for goods, stations can sometimes
have locomotive and rolling stock depots (usually with facilities for storing and refuelling rolling stock
and carrying out minor repair jobs).

Station configurations
In addition to the basic configuration of a station, various features set certain types of station apart.
The first is the level of the tracks. Stations are often sited where a road crosses the railway: unless the
crossing is a level crossing, the road and railway will be at different levels. The platforms will often be
raised or lowered relative to the station entrance: the station buildings may be on either level, or both.
The other arrangement, where the station entrance and platforms are on the same level, is also
common, but is perhaps rarer in urban areas, except when the station is a terminus. Elevated stations
are more common, not including metro stations. Stations located at level crossings can be problematic
if the train blocks the roadway while it stops, causing road traffic to wait for an extended period of
time.

Occasionally, a station serves two or more railway lines at differing levels. This may be due to the
station's position at a point where two lines cross (example: Berlin Hauptbahnhof), or may be to
provide separate station capacity for two types of service, such as intercity and suburban (examples:
Paris-Gare de Lyon and Philadelphia's 30th Street Station), or for two different destinations.
Stations may also be classified according to the layout of the platforms. Apart from single-track lines,
the most basic arrangement is a pair of tracks for the two directions; there is then a basic choice of an
island platform between, two separate platforms outside the tracks (side platforms), or a combination
of the two. With more tracks, the possibilities expand.

Some stations have unusual platform layouts due to space constraints of the station location, or the
alignment of the tracks. Examples include staggered platforms, such as at Tutbury and Hatton railway
station on the Crewe–Derby line, and curved platforms, such as Cheadle Hulme railway station on the
Macclesfield to Manchester Line. Triangular stations also exist where two lines form a three-way
junction and platforms are built on all three sides, for example Shipley and Earlestown stations.

Tracks
In a station, there are different types of tracks to serve different purposes. A station may also have a
passing loop with a loop line that comes off the straight main line and merge back to the main line on
the other end by railroad switches to allow trains to pass.[19]

A track with a spot at the station to board and disembark trains is called station track or house
track[20] regardless of whether it is a main line or loop line. If such track is served by a platform, the
track may be called platform track. A loop line without a platform which is used to allow a train to
clear the main line at the station only, it is called passing track.[19] A track at the station without a
platform which is used for trains to pass the station without stopping is called through track.[20]

There may be other sidings at the station which are lower speed tracks for other purposes. A
maintenance track or a maintenance siding, usually connected to a passing track, is used for
parking maintenance equipment, trains not in service, autoracks or sleepers. A refuge track is a
dead-end siding that is connected to a station track as a temporary storage of a disabled train.[19]

Terminus
A "terminus" or "terminal" is a station at the end of a railway line. Trains arriving there have to end
their journeys (terminate) or reverse out of the station. Depending on the layout of the station, this
usually permits travellers to reach all the platforms without the need to cross any tracks – the public
entrance to the station and the main reception facilities being at the far end of the platforms.

Sometimes, however, the track continues for a short distance beyond the station, and terminating
trains continue forwards after depositing their passengers, before either proceeding to sidings or
reversing to the station to pick up departing passengers. Bondi Junction and Kristiansand Station,
Norway, are like this.

A terminus is frequently, but not always, the final destination of trains arriving at the station.
Especially in continental Europe, a city may have a terminus as its main railway station, and all main
lines converge on it. In such cases all trains arriving at the terminus must leave in the reverse
direction from that of their arrival. There are several ways in which this can be accomplished:

arranging for the service to be provided by a multiple-unit or push-pull train, both of which are
capable of operating in either direction; the driver simply walks to the other end of the train and
 takes control from the other cab; this is increasingly the normal method in Europe; and is very
common in North America;
by detaching the locomotive which brought the train into the station and then either
using another track to "run it around" to the other end of the train, to which it then re-attaches;
attaching a second locomotive to the outbound end of the train; or
by the use of a "wye", a roughly triangular arrangement of track and switches (points) where a
train can reverse direction and back into the terminal;
historically, turntables were used to reverse steam engines.

There may also be a bypass line, used by freight trains that do not need to stop at the terminus.

Some termini have a newer set of through platforms underneath (or above, or alongside) the terminal
platforms on the main level. They are used by a cross-city extension of the main line, often for
commuter trains, while the terminal platforms may serve long-distance services. Examples of
underground through lines include the Thameslink platforms at Blackfriars in London, the Argyle and
North Clyde lines of Glasgow's suburban rail network, in
Antwerp in Belgium, the RER at the Gare du Nord in Paris,
the Milan suburban railway service's Passante railway, and
many of the numerous S-Bahn lines at terminal stations in
Germany, Austria and Switzerland, such as at Zürich
Hauptbahnhof.

An American example of a terminal with this feature is Union

Station in Washington, DC, where there are bay platforms on
the main concourse level to serve terminating trains and
standard island platforms one level below to serve trains
continuing southwards. The lower tracks run in a tunnel
beneath the concourse and emerge a few blocks away to cross
Opened in 1830 and reached through a
the Potomac River into Virginia.
tunnel, Liverpool's Crown Street railway
Terminus stations in large cities are by far the biggest station was the first ever railway terminus.
The station was demolished after only six
stations, with the largest being the Grand Central Terminal
years, being replaced by Lime Street
in New York City.[21] "Termini" is the name of Rome's central station in the city centre. The tunnel still
train station. Other major cities, such as London, Boston, exists.
Paris, Istanbul, Tokyo, and Milan have more than one
terminus, rather than routes straight through the city. Train
journeys through such cities often require alternative
transport (metro, bus, taxi or ferry) from one terminus to the
other. For instance, in Istanbul transfers from the Sirkeci
Terminal (the European terminus) and the Haydarpaşa
Terminal (the Asian terminus) traditionally required crossing
the Bosphorus via alternative means, before the Marmaray
railway tunnel linking Europe and Asia was completed. Some
cities, including New York, have both termini and through Opened in 1830, Liverpool Road station in
lines. Manchester is the oldest surviving railway
terminus building in the world.
Terminals that have competing rail lines using the station
frequently set up a jointly owned terminal railroad to own
and operate the station and its associated tracks and
switching operations.

Stop
During a journey, the term station stop may be used in Opened in 1836, Spa Road railway station
announcements, to differentiate a halt during which in London was the city's first terminus and
passengers may alight for another reason, such as a also the world's first elevated station and
locomotive change. terminus.

A railway stop is a spot along a railway line, usually

between stations or at a seldom-used station, where passengers can board and exit the train.

While a junction or interlocking usually divides two or more lines or routes, and thus has remotely or
locally operated signals, a station stop does not. A station stop usually does not have any tracks other
than the main tracks, and may or may not have switches (points, crossovers).

Halt
A halt, in railway parlance in the Commonwealth of Nations and Republic of Ireland, is a small
station, usually unstaffed or with very few staff, and with few or no facilities. In some cases, trains
stop only on request, when passengers on the platform indicate that they wish to board, or passengers
on the train inform the crew that they wish to alight.

In the United Kingdom, most former halts on the national railway

networks have had the word halt removed from their names.
Historically, in many instances the spelling "halte" was used,
before the spelling "halt" became commonplace. There are only
two publicly advertised and publicly accessible National Rail
stations with the word "halt" remaining: Coombe Junction Halt
and St Keyne Wishing Well Halt.[22][23] In addition there are
many other such stops in the UK rail network such as
Penmaenmawr in North Wales, Yorton in Shropshire, and The
Lakes in Warwickshire, where passengers are requested to inform St Keyne Wishing Well Halt
a member of on-board train staff if they wish to alight, or, if
catching a train from the station, to make themselves clearly
visible to the driver and use a hand signal as the train approaches.[24]

A number of other halts are still open and operational on privately owned, heritage, and preserved
railways throughout the British Isles. The word is often used informally to describe national rail
network stations with limited service and low usage, such as the Oxfordshire Halts on the Cotswold
Line. The title halt had also sometimes been applied colloquially to stations served by public services
but not available for use by the general public, being accessible only by persons travelling to/from an
associated factory (for example IBM near Greenock and British Steel Redcar– although neither of
these is any longer served by trains), or military base (such as Lympstone Commando) or railway
yard. The only two such remaining "private" stopping places on the national system where the "halt"
designation is still officially used seem to be Staff Halt (at Durnsford Road, Wimbledon) and
Battersea Pier Sidings Staff Halt – both are solely for railway staff and are not open to passengers.[23]

The Great Western Railway in Great Britain began opening haltes on 12 October 1903; from 1905, the
French spelling was Anglicised to "halt". These GWR halts had the most basic facilities, with
platforms long enough for just one or two carriages; some had no raised platform at all, necessitating
the provision of steps on the carriages. Halts were normally unstaffed, tickets being sold on the train.
On 1 September 1904, a larger version, known on the GWR as a "platform" instead of a "halt", was
introduced; these had longer platforms, and were usually staffed by a senior grade porter, who sold
tickets, and sometimes booked parcels or milk consignments.[25][26]

From 1903 to 1947 the GWR built 379 halts and inherited a further 40 from other companies at the
Grouping of 1923. Peak building periods were before the First World War (145 built) and 1928–39
(198 built)[27]). Ten more were opened by BR on ex-GWR lines. The GWR also built 34
"platforms".[28]

In many Commonwealth countries the term "halt" is still used. In the United States such stations are
traditionally referred to as flag stops. In Germany, the term is Haltepunkt (Hp).

In the Republic of Ireland, a few small railway stations are designated as "halts" (Irish: stadanna,
sing. stad).[29]

In Victoria, Australia, a rail motor stopping place (RMSP) is a location on a railway line where a
small passenger vehicle or railmotor can stop to allow passengers to alight. It is often designated by
just a sign beside the railway[30] at a convenient access point near a road. The passenger can hail the
train driver to stop, and buy a ticket from the guard or the conductor on the train.[31]

Accessibility
Accessibility for people with disabilities is mandated by law in some countries. Considerations
include: elevator or ramp access to all platforms, matching platform height to train floors, making
wheelchair lifts available when platforms do not match vehicle floors, accessible toilets and pay
phones, audible station announcements, and safety measures such as tactile marking of platform
edges.

Goods stations
Goods or freight stations deal exclusively or predominantly with the loading and unloading of goods
and may well have marshalling yards (classification yards) for the sorting of wagons. The world's first
goods terminal was the 1830 Park Lane Goods Station at the South End Liverpool Docks. Built in
1830, the terminal was reached by a 1.24-mile (2 km) tunnel.

As goods are increasingly moved by road, many former goods stations, as well as the goods sheds at
passenger stations, have closed. In addition, many goods stations today are used purely for the cross-
loading of freight and may be known as transshipment stations, where they primarily handle
containers. They are also known as container stations or terminals.
 Reached by a 1.24-mile (2 km) long
tunnel, the 1830 Park Lane Goods
Terminus at Liverpool's docks was
the world's first station built entirely
for freight.

Records

Worldwide
The world's busiest passenger station, in terms of daily
passenger throughput, is Shinjuku Station in Tokyo.[32]
The world's station with most platforms is Grand Central
Terminal in New York City with 44 platforms.[33]
The world's highest station above ground level (not above
sea level) is Smith–Ninth Streets subway station in New York Grand Central Terminal in New York
City.[34][35] City is the largest station by number
of platforms, with 44 on two levels.
Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue in New York City is the
world's largest elevated terminal with 8 tracks and 4 island
platforms.[36]
The Shanghai South Railway Station, opened in June 2006,
has the world's largest circular transparent roof.[37]

Europe
Busiest

Gare du Nord, in Paris, is by the number of travellers, at

around 214 millions per year, the busiest railway station in
Europe, the 24th busiest in the world and the busiest outside
Japan.[9]
Clapham Junction, in London, is Europe's busiest station by
daily rail traffic with 100 to 180 trains per hour passing
through.[9]
Zürich HB is the busiest terminus in Europe by the volume of
rail traffic.[9]

Largest
Clapham Junction in London is the
Leipzig Hbf is the biggest railway station in Europe in terms of busiest station in terms of rail traffic
floor area (83,460 square metres (898,400 sq ft)).[9] with an average of one train every 20
München Hbf is the largest railway station by number of seconds at peak times.
platforms (32).[9]

Highest

Jungfraujoch railway station is the highest railway station in the European continent (3,453
metres (11,329 ft)).[9]

North America
Penn Station in New York City is the busiest station in North America.[38][39]
Toronto's Union Station is the busiest station in Canada.[40]

Asia
Shinjuku Station, in Tokyo, is the busiest station by total passenger numbers in the whole
world[32]

Gallery
 St. Pancras station Amsterdam Centraal station Berlin Hauptbahnhof in
in London, designed in Amsterdam, Netherlands Berlin, Germany
by William Henry
Barlow and opened
in 1868

Atocha Station, in the Helsinki Central Luz Station in São Dunedin Railway
city of Madrid, is the Station, designed by Paulo, Brazil. Since Station, in Dunedin,
biggest train station in Eliel Saarinen, is 2006, is also the seat New Zealand, is one
Spain. located in the city of Museum of the of the country's most
center of Helsinki, the Portuguese Language. famous historic
capital of Finland. buildings.[41]

Chhatrapati Shivaji Central station of

Hsinchu Station in Hsinchu City,
Terminus in Mumbai, India Utrecht, Netherlands
Republic of China.

See also
Station building
Bus station
Bus terminus
Freight station
 Freight station
List of IATA-indexed railway stations
List of railway stations
Metro station

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External links
A comprehensive technical article about stations (https://web.archive.org/web/20070609114225/ht
tp://www.railway-technical.com/stations.shtml) from Railway Technical Web Pages

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