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Basel Badischer Bahnhof[edit]

Basel Badischer Bahnhof is wholly owned by the german federal railways. It has never been used for swiss trains, except for international trains which almost all also stop at the main station, Basel SBB. However, Basel SBB is - along with Basel SNCF - a real joint station. 4 terminal tracks for the french railways, 1 pass-through track for trains between both countries, and about 16 tracks for swiss use. Trains for / from Germany use the swiss side. Both railroad systems are electrified, but the french use 25'000 volts at 50 hertz, whereas the swiss and german systems use 15'000 volts AC at 16 2/3 hertz. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.14.226.65 (talk) 14:53, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

How do we define "major" Union Stations for NA?[edit]

I'm just wondering what constitutes a "major" Union Station... For example, the Portland, Oregon Union Station is the oldest West of the Mississippi, and is still the primary train station for Portland, with over 670,000 yearly passengers. (In fact, taking a look, it may be the oldest "Union Station" that is still in operation as a train station...) 174.47.84.200 (talk) 00:45, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Historic joint stations in Britain[edit]

A few nominations possibly worth including:

Carlisle Citadel railway station, once the joint property of six companies (LNWR, Maryport & Carlisle, Caledonian, NER, NBR and Midland - although the LNWR were the "landlords") , reduced to two from 1922 to 1948 (LNER and LMS) - there is a joint "Zero Milepost" in the centre of one platform, with added distance posts from Euston and St Pancras stations in London Exeter St Davids railway station, GWR-owned, but with LSWR services (Southern after 1922) - unusual in that it is possible for two trains to London (Paddington and Waterloo) to set off in opposite directions at the same time London Victoria Railway Station, joint until the 1922 Grouping (LB&SC and SE&CR) Clapham Junction railway station, also until the 1922 Grouping (LB&SC and LSWR) Nottingham Victoria railway station, also until the 1922 Grouping (GNR and GCR) (one proposed name was "Nottingham Joint" - source Echoes of the Great Central by John M. C. Healy) Birmingham New Street railway station, also until the 1922 Grouping (LNWR and Midland) Leeds railway station was a result of a rebuilding project to incorporate traffic from Leeds Central into Leeds City, but the station was jointly operated from first opening

Most of this comes from other parts of the Wiki and the fact that I have visited all the stations mentioned.86.161.110.221 (talk) 02:47, 2 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Equivalents in post-privatised UK?[edit]

Since privatisation in the 1990s, the majority of stations are operated by the franchise holder of the line on which that station resides, but major terminals and interchanges are operated by the track owner Network Rail. In a round-about way, this isn't dissimilar to the US definition of a 'union station' - the franchise holders pay access charges to Network Rail, so they do in effect have a joint contribution (though not joint ownership) of the operating company. I would imagine the franchise fee incorporates the costs of each franchise's use of these major stations as well (pure speculation - I have no references for this).

Most of these stations outside of London will be used by more than one train operating company (Birmingham New Street, Leeds, Manchester Piccadilly, Edinburgh Waverley, etc.), and some may even have been built as 'joint stations' originally (or at least operated as 'joint stations' at some point - see #Historic joint stations in Britain above). However, due to the odd way in which London's terminal stations were built (were there any 'joint stations' built in London before nationalisation?), most of these serve just one train operating company today (although you could argue that most also serve the London Underground), while almost all are operated by Network Rail.

Some exceptions would be:

London Euston - terminus for Virgin Trains, London Midland, London Overground and First ScotRail sleepers.
London Victoria - terminus for Southern and Southeastern.
London Liverpool Street - terminus for Greater Anglia and c2c.
London Kings Cross - terminus for East Coast, Grand Central, First Hull Trains and First Capital Connect.

smiler (talk) 08:31, 22 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Reference to joint-use station (共同使用駅, Kyōdō shiyō-eki) in Japan[edit]

I am from Japan and I never heard of the term "joint-use station (共同使用駅, Kyōdō shiyō-eki)". I do not know a railroad station named as 共同使用駅, like Union Station in the North America. It is possible that the term is used in discussion among railroad companies, but I have never find a Japanese train-fan video clip that uses this term on YouTube.

I suggest removing references to this term from Japan section because it gives a wrong impression that the term is used as the name of a station in Japan. It goes against the fact. I would further argue that the Japan section should be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tk987 (talk • contribs) 23:45, 14 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]