Railway/Subway shared stations

[hseldon]

What are some nice examples of railway/subway shared stations? I'm thinking of Stratford Regional. I'm interested in both shared platforms and/or railway-subway interchange.

 

[jopsuk]

The Watford DC line has a long stretch where London Overground "heavy rail" services share tracks with the London Underground Bakerloo line. The power arrangements are a little odd- the "4th rail" used by the underground trains is on this route not energised (it would normally be at -210V) but rather bonded to a running rail to form part of the same earth current return system used by the 3rd rail trains.

Chiltern's diesel trains share tracks and platforms on the Aylesbury route with Metropolitan line Underground trains.

There's also the likes of Upminster, Baking, West Ham, Kensington Olympia, West Brompton, Wimbledon, Richmond and Ealing Broadway. The H&C platforms at Paddington are alongside National Rail platforms too.

Greenford has a bay for National Rial services between the Central Line platforms- and there's South and West Ruislip stations alongside Chiltern services

 

[Aictos]

Highbury and Islington on the Northern City Line has same platform interchange with the Victoria and National Rail services.

Old Street, Moorgate, Farringdon, Kings Cross St Pancras, Finsbury Park, Blackfriars, Elephant and Castle are just some of the stations served by both FCC and LUL services.

 

[Bittern]

Partick is a shared station interchange between the Argyle Line, the North Clyde Line and the Glasgow Subway.

 

[starrymarkb]

There is also Richmond to Gunnersbury where London overground share with the District Line. And though not an interchange as such the District south of East Putney can be used by National Rail trains.

 

[deltic]

Sunderland to Heworth - Tyne & Wear metro and National Rail

 

[142094]

On the Metro, the shared tracks end just before Pelaw. Sunderland and Heworth are shared stations, and Central Station could also count. Brockley Whins, East Boldon and Seaburn would have counted but when the extension opened they were converted to Metro use only, but I see no reason why they couldn't be used as a shared station.

 

[mrcheek]

Heres another of those things said on wikipedia that could be wrong, so maybe someone can confirm it here:
Its claimed that Sunderland is the only station where light rail and heavy rail share the same tracks AND platforms. Is this true or false?

 

[jopsuk]

do you count the London Underground as "light rail" or not? If you do, then (as mentioned above) there's stretches of the Watford DC/Bakerloo and Chiltern/Metropolitan where light rail and heavy rail share everything, including, on the Watford DC, power supply.
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Partick is a shared station interchange between the Argyle Line, the North Clyde Line and the Glasgow Subway.

There's loads of London underground stations are of that sort of interchange- for starters, 12 out of 16 stations on the Victoria line have National Rail interchange. Most of the ones mentioned in this thread though (and given Stratford as the example, I think it is what the OP was after) are "level" interchanges- the "metro" platforms alongside the heavy rail, or even shared.

 

[flymo]

How about the Robin Hood line, or at least Bulwell & Hucknall stations? Cross platform interchange from NET to 'heavy rail'. Not the same lines though but parallel.

 

[142094]

Its claimed that Sunderland is the only station where light rail and heavy rail share the same tracks AND platforms. Is this true or false?

Depends on definition of platform. Yes they share the tracks and the same "platform", however each has its own designated numbered platform, one for Metro and one for heavy rail in both directions. Interestingly, people might say that Grand Central use the whole platform (which they do), but still departures and arrivals are announced only using the heavy rail platforms (unless this has recently changed).