Spanish solution
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In railway and rapid transit parlance, the Spanish solution is a station layout with two railway platforms, one on each side of a track, which allows for separate platforms for boarding and alighting.
Eastbound track at Marienplatz station, Munich S-Bahn
Spanish solution on Line 6 at Charles de Gaulle–Étoile, Paris Metro
Platforms of the Chabacano station on Line 8, Mexico City Metro
Boston's Park Street Under station in 1912. The same platform configuration is still in use.
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
Spanish solution
…Spanish solution layout to expand the capacity of existing stations when there is no space to widen the existing platform, an issue that can occur in island platform configurations. To encourage passengers to exit to the correct platform, arriving trains typically first open their doors facing the platform for…
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