Trivia: Airports with the most railway stations.

[stadler]

Heathrow Airport has three railway stations. It has T123 and T4 and T5 stations. If you count the Elizabeth Line stations and Piccadilly Line stations separately (as they are not connected) then you could even say it has six stations.

So is Heathrow Airport a record? Can anyone think of any other airports around the world with three or more stations?

I can think of a few around the world with two. Moscow Sheremetyevo has two stations (Sheremetyevo 1 ABC and Sheremetyevo 2 DEF). Los Angeles Burbank has two stations (Burbank Airport North and Burbank Airport South). Paris Charles De Gaulle has two stations (CDG 1 and CDG 2).

 

[nwales58]

Can't think anything beats Heathrow. All from memory:

Barcelona will be 4 eventually, Madrid is 3, Frankfurt 2.

If you count light rail and similar, Orly gets up to 4 (including Orlyval as it runs from well outside the airport) , Düsseldorf will be 4 when U81 eventually opens (3 currently including H-Bahn), +1 more if you include Flughafen station which is outside the perimeter.

 

[AdamWW]

Heathrow Airport has three railway station. It has T123 and T4 and T5 stations. If you count the Elizabeth Line stations and Piccadilly Line stations separately (as they are not connected) then you could even say it has six stations.

So is Heathrow Airport a record? Can anyone think of any other airports around the world with three or more stations?

I can think of a few around the world with two. Moscow Sheremetyevo has two stations (Sheremetyevo 1 ABC and Sheremetyevo 2 DEF). Los Angeles Burbank has two stations (Burbank Airport North and Burbank Airport South). Paris Charles De Gaulle has two stations (CDG 1 and CDG 2).

It depends how you count.

I believe that in the USA Philadelphia airport has four "stations", but two of them are opposite ends of the same platform with trains stopping at both ends.

 

[The Pelican]

Arlanda in Stockholm has three, Arlanda North and South on one branch for the Arlanda express, and Arlanda Central on a seperate, through running branch for reigonal and commuter trains.

In Tokyo, Narita has Higashi-Narita on a line which continues one stop to Shibayama-Toyoda, and a seperate branch which has a Narita T1 station and a Narita T2 station.

 

[stadler]

Heathrow Airport has three railway stations. It has T123 and T4 and T5 stations. If you count the Elizabeth Line stations and Piccadilly Line stations separately (as they are not connected) then you could even say it has six stations.

So is Heathrow Airport a record? Can anyone think of any other airports around the world with three or more stations?

I can think of a few around the world with two. Moscow Sheremetyevo has two stations (Sheremetyevo 1 ABC and Sheremetyevo 2 DEF). Los Angeles Burbank has two stations (Burbank Airport North and Burbank Airport South). Paris Charles De Gaulle has two stations (CDG 1 and CDG 2).

I have also just remembered now that Stockholm Arlanda also has three. Arlanda Central and Arlanda North and Arlanda South are the three stations. I think Arlanda Central is used for normal trains and Arlanda North and Arlanda South are solely for the airport express trains.

Can't think anything beats Heathrow. All from memory:

Barcelona will be 4 eventually, Madrid is 3, Frankfurt 2.

If you count light rail and similar, Orly gets up to 4 (including Orlyval as it runs from well outside the airport) , Düsseldorf will be 4 when U81 eventually opens (3 currently including H-Bahn), +1 more if you include Flughafen station which is outside the perimeter.

I suppose if people movers are counted then Heathrow has nine stations if you add the T5A and T5B and T5C stations. But i would personally just count stations with mainline trains or metro trains or something that takes you out of the airport and in to the town or neighbouring areas.

It depends how you count.

I believe that in the USA Philadelphia airport has four "stations", but two of them are opposite ends of the same platform with trains stopping at both ends.

The trains stop at different ends of the same platform! That sounds very unusual. The closest i have seen elsewhere is in the UK when a train attaches or divides and it first stops in one place and opens the doors and then moves a few metres forwards or backwards and opens the doors again. But opposite ends of the same platform seems crazy as passengers could just walk the short distance!

Arlanda in Stockholm has three, Arlanda North and South on one branch for the Arlanda express, and Arlanda Central on a seperate, through running branch for reigonal and commuter trains.

In Tokyo, Narita has Higashi-Narita on a line which continues one stop to Shibayama-Toyoda, and a seperate branch which has a Narita T1 station and a Narita T2 station.

Beat me to it! I just remembered that Stockholm Arlanda one too!

 

[The Pelican]

It looks to me like the JFK airport Airtrack in New York normally has five stations named after airport terminals; on the airside, the two incarnations of the Dallas Fort Worth People mover have had even more than that- the current one has ten stations!

 

[eldomtom2]

In Tokyo, Narita has Higashi-Narita on a line which continues one stop to Shibayama-Toyoda, and a seperate branch which has a Narita T1 station and a Narita T2 station.

Tokyo Haneda also has three monorail stations and two rail stations.

 

[stut]

Guangzhou now has 5 - Airport North and Airport South on Metro Line 3; Baiyun Airport North, South and East on the orbital rail line.

Shenzhen has a confusing array - Airport North on lines 11 and 20, Airport East on lines 1 and 12, plus Shenzhen Airport and Shenzhen Airport North on the railway.

Orly is quite well served by different forms of transport, though - Orly 1, 2, 3 and Orly 4 on the OrlyVAL people mover, Aéroport d'Orly on Line 14 (and soon 18), Orly 4 on Tram T7 and the ever disappointing Pont de Rungis - Aéroport d'Orly on the ever disappointing RER C.

 

[The Pelican]

A look at Tempelhof airport in Berlin on OpenRailMap will show that it retains a railway which runs along the landside of the entire terminal building. It's easy to imagine an airside railway running next to almost every gate of a reasonably linear airport, like London City or the T5 satellites.

Washington Dulles airport, built on the 1960s, tried the innovative technology of mobile lounges- gates were (and are) immediately adjacent to each other, with a large vehicle transferring passengers directly to the plane.

It's interesting to imagine a gate system based on a combination of these two principles- a PRT pod based system which has one station just after check in and security, and then spreads out to a series of stations immediately adjacent to each gate. It would be convenient, but probably very expensive.

 

[TheWierdOne]

Washington Dulles airport, built on the 1960s, tried the innovative technology of mobile lounges- gates were (and are) immediately adjacent to each other, with a large vehicle transferring passengers directly to the plane.

It's interesting to imagine a gate system based on a combination of these two principles- a PRT pod based system which has one station just after check in and security, and then spreads out to a series of stations immediately adjacent to each gate. It would be convenient, but probably very expensive.

Montreal Trudeau still uses mobile lounges, it’s like Baba Yaga built a bus

 

[FormerBritInMe]

The trains stop at different ends of the same platform! That sounds very unusual. The closest i have seen elsewhere is in the UK when a train attaches or divides and it first stops in one place and opens the doors and then moves a few metres forwards or backwards and opens the doors again. But opposite ends of the same platform seems crazy as passengers could just walk the short distance!

PHL has 6 terminals A through F. One station serves terminals C and D at one end, and E and F at the other end. So it makes sense for them to stop twice. It is very convenient, just a stair or lift down from the Baggage Claim.

 

[signed]

It's interesting to imagine a gate system based on a combination of these two principles- a PRT pod based system which has one station just after check in and security, and then spreads out to a series of stations immediately adjacent to each gate. It would be convenient, but probably very expensive.

It would end up being extremely inefficient and the airport would loose on a lot of the traffic to the shops.