A split platform, stacked platform, or separate platform is a station that has a platform for each track, split onto two or more levels. This configuration allows a narrower station plan horizontally,
A pair of split level platforms in Harvard station of the Boston-Cambridge MBTA Red Line service. The upper (outbound) platform at left is empty, while the lower (inbound) platform is relatively crowded.
A cross-platform interchange is a type of interchange between different lines at a metro station. The term originates with the London Underground; such layouts exist in other networks but are not comm
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…other. Where two rail lines cross or run parallel for a time, split platforms are sometimes used in a hybrid arrangement that allows for convenient cross-platform interchange between trains running in the same general direction. On the London Underground, to minimise the risk of subsidence, the tunnel alignments largely…
Single cross-platform interchange at Konggang Xincheng Jiangning station of Nanjing Metro, China, providing continuation of travel between Line S1 and S7.
Double cross platform interchange looking from one train through another train (which has its doors open on both sides) to reveal a third train at Barking in London
The upper-level platforms (2 and 4) of Siam Station serving westbound trains
Cross-platform interchanges between different train categories in Xipu Railway Station, Chengdu. The double track of Line 2 of Chengdu Metro is in the middle, while the double tracks of national rail transport system (Chengdu–Dujiangyan intercity railway) are on both sides.