Interchange station

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For the planned High Speed 2 station, see Birmingham Interchange.
railway route in a public transport system that allows passengers
to change from one route to another, often without having to leave a station or pay an additional fare.

Transfer may occur within the same mode, or between rail modes, or to

bus termini attached). Such stations usually have more platforms than single route stations. These stations can exist in either commercial centers or on the city outskirts in residential areas. Cities typically plan for land use around interchange stations for development.[1] Passengers may be required to pay extra fare for the interchange if they leave a paid area
.

History

With the opening of the

Woodside and Birkenhead Dock Street Tramway in 1873,[2] Birkenhead Dock railway station in Birkenhead, England probably became the world's first tram to train interchange station.[3]

Examples

The remains of the remote Verney Junction interchange station

Verney Junction interchange station in Buckinghamshire, England was built at the point of two railway lines intersecting each other in open countryside. The station was built in an open remote field being used from 1868 to 1968. [4]

The

Manhattan Transfer (PRR station) on the Pennsylvania Railroad was located outside Newark, New Jersey
in a relatively isolated area, and was used primarily for passenger interchange.

Sometimes cross-platform interchange is offered between mainline railways and city metro systems, such as Barking and Stratford stations in London.

In some cases, no dedicated underground passage or footbridge is provided, and therefore passengers have to transfer between two parts of a station through city streets. Examples include

fare control
area in the station (this process is called a "free out-of-system transfer").

There are also

Lafayette, Indiana
.

In

Chatelet
in Paris, an interchange between five lines.

See also

References

  1. ISBN 9780203879986
    .
  2. ^ Maund 2009, p. 10
  3. ^ "Station Name: Birkenhead Dock". Disused Stations. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  4. ^ "Disused Stations: Verney Junction Station". www.disused-stations.org.uk. Retrieved 2 April 2018.

Sources

  • Maund, T.B. (2009). The Wirral Railway and its Predecessors. Lightmoor Press.
    ISBN 978-1-899889-38-9
    .    9
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