Though to be fair, there's a bit of a difference between the roads out from Veleslavin to the Airport and your average London street.
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Ailsa_Craig
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I have used light rail from Dallas Fort Worth, Portland and Seattle airports.Also the Blue line from Chicago O'hare
izvor
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Podgorica (capital of Montenegro) has a halt within walking distance of the airport terminal but I can't imagine anyone but locals using (or even finding) it. From memory it's just a basic platform underneath the approach road flyover.
New York City John Fitzgerald Kennedy airport and New York City Newark airport are both connected solely by rip off monorail things. So it is debatable whether they count. You have to take the monorail which then takes you to a railway station outside of the airport rather than it being an actual airport railway station.
Phoenix Arizona is similar to the above ones. It has a monorail which takes you to a tram stop and then you can take a tram from there in to the city centre. But at least the monorail to the tram stop is free of charge here.
Portland Oregon has a tram stop outside the airport terminal with frequent trams in to the city centre.
Salt Lake City Utah has a tram stop outside the airport terminal with frequent trams in to the city centre.
Minneapolis Minnesota has tram stops outside both of the airport terminals with frequent trams in to the city centre.
Los Angeles Burbank has two railway stations on two different Metrolink suburban train lines within a short walking distance. Burbank Airport South is the closest and is only a five minute walk to the terminal. Burbank Airport North is slightly further and takes about fifteen minutes to walk to the terminal.
Baltimore Martin State Airport has a dedicated railway station on the MARC suburban trains a short walk from the terminal. But the airport is only used by private aeroplanes now so not much use. Still i suppose it is helpful for airport workers.
Albuquerque New Mexico has an airport railway station that is laughably named after the airport despite being a one hour walk away. There is a free bus (222) but it is mainly for airport workers as it only runs twice a day in each direction. Therefore it only connects with a very small amount of the flights. So despite its name i would not classify this as an airport railway station. In fact it is far easier to simply take a free bus (50) in to Albuquerque city centre directly as that bus runs every thirty minutes.
South Bend airport has a dedicated railway station directly outside the terminal building. It only runs 9 times a day on weekdays or 6 times a day on weekends so it is not exactly a frequent service. About one train every couple of hours.
Chicago O Hare additionally has a monorail connecting it to a mainline station on the Metra suburban trains. The monorail is free of charge. But as you say the airport is also served by the Chicago L Metro trains.
Hartford Connecticut has a short shuttle bus ride to Windsor Locks station which has mainline trains.
New York City Stewart has a short shuttle bus ride to Beacon station which has mainline trains.
Miami Florida has a mainline station and metro station. The airport has both Metrorail urban metro trains and Tri Rail suburban mainline trains.
Fort Lauderdale Florida has a mainline station named after the airport. But this requires a free shuttle bus as it is quite a distance from the terminal.
Orlando Florida has a mainline station but it is only served by Brightline long distance trains. There is no connection to the local Sun Rail suburban train network and no trains to Orlando city centre.
Milwaukee Wisconsin has a mainline station named after the airport. But this requires a free shuttle bus as it is quite a distance from the terminal.
The JFK Airtrain runs on conventional standard gauge track, aside from the centre rail for the linear induction motors to work on.
It's correctly called Aerodrom (airport) so the name should be an indication of its purpose.
I have used that station before and i am not a local. It is only a ten minute walk from Podgorica airport to Aerodrom railway station and then a five minute train ride in to Podgorica city centre. So it is by far the quickest option. It is also the cheapest option. But they really ought to promote it better. A more frequent train service would be good too.
I remember taking that to and from the airport. The airport station is a tiny little request stop with an extremely basic platform. That must be the only airport in the world to be served by a heritage railway station. I certainly can not think of any others. Although i highly doubt any ordinary non enthusiast passengers use it. The ordinary Bus Vannin buses are half the price and far more frequent.
Nadi in Fiji has had occasional heritage trains stop on the old sugar cane railway outside the terminal building.
No station, but I have crossed an airport runway on a long distance train (sadly not steam, and indeed no more) - where might that have been?
Bacha Khan in Pakistan.
No - I didn't know of that one
Jim Jehosofat
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Bandaranaike International Airport (Colombo, Sri Lanka) seems to have a railway station but no services appear to operate.
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Yep 20 minute taxi ride
Sir Felix Pole
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Le Touquet? Looks as though scheduled air services have ceased completely as well.
Le Touquet had a spur branching off the Amiens-Boulogne main line that led directly to the airport apron. This was used by the silver arrow service, that linked Paris and London by train + plane operation. That spur has now been dismantled, although some track remnants can still be found embedded in concrete slabs. Trains needed a clearance from the airport tower before the signal could be opened. This was probably the shortest air-rail connection ever. As presented on this picture, it ran from 1971 to 1980.
This picture, if I remember well, came originally as the cover of an issue of the french rail magazine "la vie du rail" many decades ago.
Still no - a lot further away!
Ailsa_Craig
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Gary Chicago Airport supposedly has a station on the South Shore suburban line. About half a mile away from the airport, I drove past it a few weeks ago
Yes there is a station there. Gary Airport railway station is about twenty minute walk from the airport terminal building. But the airport appears to only be used for private aeroplanes at the moment. So not much use with no scheduled flights. Interestingly the station is a request stop. It must be the only other airport station (besides the Isle Of Man one) in the world that is a request stop. I suppose that goes to show how little usage it gets.
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ricohallo
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Lübeck's airport station is also a request stop.
Im surprised they never extended the tram from Airport West to the airport
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The wires don't in Chisinau but the same bus does as it runs on battery to/from the Airport.
Yes, comes off the wires not far from the airport.
zwk500
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Isn't there one in New Zealand?
There certainly is, and that's the one!
Gisborne, on the east side of the North Island.
No longer connected to the national network (as it was when I did it in 1987), but still doable now with occasional heritage steam trains.
Gisborne, on the east side of the North Island.
No longer connected to the national network (as it was when I did it in 1987), but still doable now with occasional heritage steam trains.
LNW-GW Joint
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The Liverpool Airport bus link from South Parkway is not that convenient.
Several bus routes offer the connection every 10 minutes or so, but take different routes through Garston and Speke and are all stoppers, generally taking 15-20 minutes.
Some of them start in Liverpool city centre, and after you've factored in the train connections they are as fast as the rail link.
Another long bus transfer is that in Madrid between the new terminal at Barajas (T4) and the old one (T1-3, used by the low-cost brigade).
The bus actually exits T4 on to the local motorway network and circles outside the airport before entering the T1-3 complex.
T4 has a fast main line rail link from Atocha and Chamartin stations, but T1-3 can only be accessed by the Metro, which goes on to T4.
Kyiv has a dedicated DMU rail link to its main airport at Borispol to the southeast, which I used in 2019.
But it won't be seeing much civilian traffic these days.
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I used the rail link at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok and can confirm it's still a very decent option to the centre at a very good price (£1 for the 30 min journey). They now accept card payment too which is sadly unique in Thailand.
It relatively easily connects onto the BTS Sukhumvit line with the BTS serving most tourist destinations
Was intending to go to the old international airport - now the low cost dominated one - in Don Mueang on the SRT line which wasn't in operation when I was last there. Didn't quite make it though.
Bangkok still has the minus of having four different metro systems with four different non-interchangeable fare systems with often very clunky non-user friendly interchanges despite all being state-owned.
It relatively easily connects onto the BTS Sukhumvit line with the BTS serving most tourist destinations
Was intending to go to the old international airport - now the low cost dominated one - in Don Mueang on the SRT line which wasn't in operation when I was last there. Didn't quite make it though.
Bangkok still has the minus of having four different metro systems with four different non-interchangeable fare systems with often very clunky non-user friendly interchanges despite all being state-owned.
Shimbleshanks
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Anyone mentioned Gibraltar yet? Definitely no trains, but there is a level crossing - for planes, not trains.
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