10 Facts About Terminal station

In British usage, the word Terminal station is commonly understood to mean a railway Terminal station unless otherwise qualified.

World's first recorded railway Terminal station was The Mount on the Oystermouth Railway in Swansea, Wales, which began passenger service in 1807, although the trains were horsedrawn rather than by locomotives.

The station was slightly older than the still extant Liverpool Road railway station terminal in Manchester.

Crown Street station was demolished in 1836, as the Liverpool terminal station moved to Lime Street railway station.

The other arrangement, where the Terminal station entrance and platforms are on the same level, is common, but is perhaps rarer in urban areas, except when the Terminal station is a terminus.

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Occasionally, a Terminal station serves two or more railway lines at differing levels.

Track with a spot at the Terminal station to board and disembark trains is called Terminal station track or house track regardless of whether it is a main line or loop line.

Sometimes the track continues for a short distance beyond the Terminal station, and terminating trains continue forwards after depositing their passengers, before either proceeding to sidings or reversing to the Terminal station to pick up departing passengers.

Terminals that have competing rail lines using the station frequently set up a jointly owned terminal railroad to own and operate the station and its associated tracks and switching operations.

Many such stops remain on the national railway networks in the United Kingdom, such as Penmaenmawr in North Wales, Yorton in Shropshire, and The Lakes in Warwickshire, where passengers are requested to inform a member of on-board train staff if they wish to alight, or, if catching a train from the Terminal station, to make themselves clearly visible to the driver and use a hand signal as the train approaches.