Island platform
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An island platform is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are sometime
Beecroft railway station in Sydney, Australia, is an island-platform station in the middle of a reverse curve. This platform is accessed by an underpass.
Clapham Common station on the London Underground's Northern line
The Mets-Willets Point station on the NYC Subway's IRT Flushing Line (7 Train), showing its island platform sandwiched between its two side platforms.
Ashton-under-Lyne station, an island-platformed station in England
Side platform
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A side platform is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, transitway, or rapid transit. A station having dual side platforms, one
Lysaghts railway station, in Australia, with two side platforms and a footbridge connecting them
Cambronne station on Line 6 of the Paris Métro. An example of an elevated station with side platforms.
View of Katase-Shirata Station (Japan), an example where the line is mainly a single track, but it is possible for trains to cross each other at the station
Ryde Esplanade railway station, with one platform in use and another out of use. Ryde, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England.