duesselmartin
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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.
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.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?
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.I think building it where two motorways intersected was probably more useful overall?
Well, Sassenheim is actually on the other side of the tunnel under the motorway. Not even that far away.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.
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.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.
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
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.