Railway station, also known as railway station, is the place where railway departments handle passenger and freight transportation business and train technical operation.
The platform can be roughly divided into island platform, side platform, harbor platform, straddle building, dedicated platform and signal platform. Early stations were usually used for both passengers and goods.
Such stations still exist today; But in Europe and America, freight is generally concentrated in the main stations. Most railway stations are beside the railway or at the end of the route. Some railway stations have facilities for maintenance or refueling of locomotives and vehicles, except passengers and goods.
The stations used by several railway companies are generally called union stations or transfer stations. Sometimes, a transfer station also refers to a station where you can transfer to other means of transportation, such as trams, buses or ferries.
It mainly deals with ticket sales, baggage and parcel delivery, personal belongings storage, passengers getting on and off, and other passenger services, as well as driving work such as passenger train arrival, departure, technical inspection and bus preparation. The main equipment of the passenger station is: station building, platform, arrival and departure lines, etc. The passenger station that handles a large number of departing and arriving passenger trains also has a bus preparation yard for bus maintenance and cleaning.
According to the layout mode, passenger stations can be divided into through type, roadside type and mixed type. The main line running through the passenger station is connected with the arrival-departure line, and the station building is generally located on the side of the railway; The arrival-departure line of the hub passenger station is at the end, and the station building can be located at the terminal or side of the arrival-departure line; The hybrid passenger station is a combination of through and terminal.
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