Intermediate station
An intermediate station is a railway station on a continuous section of railway line. In the narrower sense, it is a railway station without any other connecting route,[1][2] unlike branch-off stations, connecting stations, transfer stations and railway junctions. In a broader sense, an intermediate station is generally any station on the route between its two terminal stations.[1][2][3]
The majority of stations are, in practice, intermediate stations. They are mostly designed as through stations; there are only a few intermediate stations that take the form of a stub-end station, for example at some zigzags. If there is a station building, it is usually located to the side of the tracks. In the case of intermediate stations used for both passenger and freight traffic, there is a distinction between those where the station building and goods facilities are on the same side of the tracks and those in which the goods facilities are on the opposite side of the tracks from the station building.[1]
Intermediate stations also occur on some funicular and cable car routes.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 keyword: Zwischenbahnhof [intermediate station], in: Lexikon der Eisenbahn, Transpress; Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-344-00160-4, p. 928.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bahnhöfe at Zeno.org. Article by: Viktor von Röll (ed.): Enzyklopädie des Eisenbahnwesens (Encyclopaedia of the Railway), 2nd edition, 1912–1923, Vol. 1, p. 383 ff.
- ↑ Jörn Pachl, Systemtechnik des Eisenbahnverkehrs, Glossary, digital version in the Glossar der Systemtechnik des Eisenbahnverkehrs, retrieved 16 February 2014
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