Do any European countries besides the UK and Ireland have a named concept of a "Parkway" station?

Similar situation in Limburg Germany. The ICE station at Limburg Süd has no rail connection to Limburg Hbf. That station was also political horse trading.

BahrainLad said:

Wasn’t one of the reasons TGV Haut-Picardie was built where it is was because there was an almighty row between the Mayors of Amiens and Saint-Quentin about who would get a station (like Lille, which was transformational for its economy) so the compromise was one half way between?

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Memory says that Amiens wanted (wants?) to be on the TGV line - it would be (to be fair) a more direct route to the Tunnel, but less so to Lille/Brussels.

gingerheid said:

I think building it where two motorways intersected was probably more useful overall?

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Again from memory, but the motorway is newer by some years than the LGV. There was (and is) a dead-straight D-road just North of the station which was the original connection.

dutchflyer said:

In NL some of the newly built minor stops (Sassenheim, Nieuw-Vennep) on the Leiden-Schiphol airport line are also quite far out of town they serve, close to adjacent motorway and have ample carparks-often used by airpassengers due to very high parking cost at airport itself.

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Well, Sassenheim is actually on the other side of the tunnel under the motorway. Not even that far away.

urbophile said:

Isn't Park and Ride almost the opposite to a Parkway station? The former is meant to attract motorists from outside a city to park there and take a train into the city. The latter is for motorists (not necessarily or primarily from that city, but from the peripheral area) to park there and then take a train to a more distant destination.

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Might well be country specific (and even mode-specific): on the bus and tram network around Utrecht there are several park and rides which exactly have the purpose you're mentioning. Those are aimed at taking a tram/bus into the city.
Especially in a densily populated country like the Netherlands railway stations with a P+R often would serve both purposes: Veenendaal-De Klomp is peripheral to Veenendaal and both serves people from Veenendaal parking and then taking a train further away and motorists parking their car to take a train into Utrecht. Similar stations are Sassenheim and Breukelen.

Maybe Utrecht Vaartsche Rijn is the most parkway-like: located in the middle of the city with a large parking garage underneath. Although it's only served by local trains.

gingerheid said:

Less useful to trains, but in this particular case much more useful to road vehicles. However it's not all about trains, especially in countries that are better at integrating modes than us. The TER buses from the station to Amiens and Saint Quentin both take around 45m. For Amiens this is a little slower than the train connection from an imaginary interchange at Chaulnes might have been, but for Saint Quentin it's

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Running separate shuttle services on point-to-Point services is actually the exact opposite of integration. If the station had been at Chaulnes, a useful Amiens - Laon service connecting to TGVs could have been developed.

Sorry, I am not changing my mind of this; TGV betteraves stations are - with a couple of exceptions - basically useless and as a result have a very unsatisfactory train service.

urbophile said:

Isn't Park and Ride almost the opposite to a Parkway station? The former is meant to attract motorists from outside a city to park there and take a train into the city. The latter is for motorists (not necessarily or primarily from that city, but from the peripheral area) to park there and then take a train to a more distant destination. Though I suppose some of them can serve both functions; Liverpool South Parkway does just that.

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That's a very interesting and valid point, although of course they both share the idea of getting people out of their cars and onto trains.

Belgium has a number of absolutely massive stations with huge carparks that are never more than 2% full.

Landen for example, 5 platforms and about 400 parking spots. There’s like one bar in the town and after 6pm it’s a ghost town. Never more than 10 cars there. Comparible towns in the U.K. would have 1-2 platforms and 50 parking spaces at best, so it must have been designed as somewhat of a park and ride.


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