rail terminals
Where trains stop
Rail terminals are stations where train lines end or originate, typically larger facilities with multiple platforms, passenger services, and connections to other transport.
Major cities often have grand rail terminals serving as transportation hubs: Grand Central Terminal, Penn Station.
The term applies to both passenger stations and freight yards where cargo is loaded and unloaded.
- switchyardRail sorting facility
- transport hubJunction for vehicles, passengers
- weighbridgePlatform for measuring vehicles
- ticketEntry permit slip
- stationFixed stopping point
platform · platform number · concourse · customs office · transshipment · marshalling yard · freight yard · tracks · train station · shunting · signal · freight car · rails · warehouse · railhead · loading dock · arrivals · crane
- rail infrastructurerailway tracks, freight yards, switches, signals, platforms
- railwaystrains, train, locomotives, locomotive, tracks
- rail transitsubway, metro, tram, train, trains
- rail mapsroute maps, metro maps, subway maps, transit maps, train routes
- oilfieldscrude oil, drilling rigs, oil wells, pump jacks, pumpjacks
transportation mode infrastructure
rail terminalsairports
Facilities for aircraft arrival
bus stations · bus terminals · seaports · ferry terminals · harbors