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2 unusual facts about interchange station


Interchange station

Sometimes cross-platform interchange is offered between mainline railways and city metro systems, such as Barking station and Stratford station in London, England, and Nam Cheong Station in New Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Examples include Kuramae Station of Toei in Tokyo, Japan, Lexington Avenue/59th Street/Lexington Avenue–63rd Street stations in New York City, United States, and Xizhimen, Fuxingmen, Jianguomen and Dongzhimen stations in Beijing, People's Republic of China.


Bakerloo line

By 1913, the line had been extended from its original northern terminus at Baker Street to the west with interchange stations with the Great Central Railway at Marylebone and the Great Western Railway at Paddington, and a new station at Edgware Road.

Owensdale, Pennsylvania

It is now home to the interchange between the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway and the Southwest Pennsylvania Railroad.


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Canada Water station

The station, which was the first to be designed in the Jubilee Line Extension project, has been described by the Hong Kong MTR's chief architect Roland Paoletti as "the only station on the JLE that has been built to the strict engineering economies of the specification of a Hong Kong interchange station."

Cove LRT Station

The station's Chinese name (海湾) was identical to the Chinese name for Bayfront MRT station, which is an interchange station for the Downtown Line and the Circle Line.

Dongdan

Dongdan Station, interchange station on Line 1 and Line 5 of the Beijing Subway

Grande Ceinture line

There are plans to build a TGV link between Normandy and l'aéroport de Roissy, using the LGV Normandie, the Grande Ceinture Nord until Stains, or a new interchange station onto the LGV Nord.

Löhne station

In Löhne, line branch off to Rheine via Osnabrück (part of the Hanoverian Western Railway to Emden) and to Elze via Hamelin (continuing to Hildesheim) and, as a result, the station was long an important junction in northwestern Germany as an interchange station with its own marshalling yard.

Saint-Cyr-l'École

Saint-Cyr-l'École is served by Saint-Cyr station, which is an interchange station on Paris RER line C, on the Transilien La Défense suburban rail line, and on the Transilien Paris – Montparnasse suburban rail line.

Wolli Creek railway station

Wolli Creek railway station is an interchange station located in the high density Sydney suburb of Wolli Creek.

Yuantong Station

Yuantong Station is an interchange station between Line 1 and Line 2 of the Nanjing Metro.