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> while others, such as Cologne, have simply added platforms at their main stations to enable suburban trains to run through. We did? Cologne's tram system is
by xg15 1y ago
> while others, such as Cologne, have simply added platforms at their main stations to enable suburban trains to run through.
We did?
Cologne's tram system is weird. Over the last century, they merged the tram, subway and selected private railways into a single network. The result is sort of a tram network on steroids, that also runs underground and serves longer distances to two neighboring cities. But it's still separate from the national train network or even "real" suburban trains (S-Bahn).
(Edit: Just learned the term "interurban" for that...)
That's unlike Berlin or Vienna, where you sometimes have subway and S-Bahn side by side in the same station, but on different tracks. I think that's closer to what they mean with "through-running"?
- croisillon 1y agoi can’t think of any side by side subway and s-bahn in vienna?
- xg15 1y agoWas thinking of Quartier Belvedere, but seems to be subterranean S-Bahn only. Maybe Wien Mitte though? https://homepage.univie.ac.at/horst.prillinger/ubahn/m/largemap-s-wien.png https://homepage.univie.ac.at/horst.prillinger/ubahn/m/large...
- croisillon 1y agono, Mitte is similar to Praterstern, you need a couple minutes between s and u platforms
- xg15 1y agoAh, then I was misremembering from my last trip and will take that back.
- croisillon 1y agono worries, i was genuinely curious if i had missed something
- Aphataeros 1y agoTwo stations have the Metro and Trains on the same elevation, running parallel to each other: Hütteldorf & Heilligenstadt both ends of the U4, but they are physically separated and you have to leave the metro to enter the train system.
- dillz 1y agoHandelskai, too. (U6 <-> S-Bahn)
- bobthepanda 1y agoThrough running simply means you do not terminate trains at a "main station" which is how traditional rail often worked; instead, a train goes from suburb to city to suburb.