In US railway history, what name is given to a station at which a train stops only on request when there are passengers/freight to be taken on or discharged?
") and five southbound to Llanelli & Swansea (the first train in each direction doesn't run on Saturdays); two services each way call on Sundays. This is a request stop for northbound trains, whereby passengers have to give a hand signal to the approaching train driver to board or notify the guard when they board that they wish to alight from the train there. Southbound trains are required to stop at the station for the traincrew to operate the level crossing controls. Ffairfach railway station Ffairfach railway station serves the village of Ffairfach, near Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales. The station is"
"they primarily handle containers. They are also known as container stations or terminals. Busiest Largest Highest Train station A train station, railway station, railroad station, or depot (see below) is a railway facility or area where trains regularly stop to load or unload passengers or freight. It generally consists of at least one track-side platform and a station building (depot) providing such ancillary services as ticket sales and waiting rooms. If a station is on a single-track line, it often has a passing loop to facilitate traffic movements. The smallest stations are most often referred to as ""stops"" or, in"
"Train station A train station, railway station, railroad station, or depot (see below) is a railway facility or area where trains regularly stop to load or unload passengers or freight. It generally consists of at least one track-side platform and a station building (depot) providing such ancillary services as ticket sales and waiting rooms. If a station is on a single-track line, it often has a passing loop to facilitate traffic movements. The smallest stations are most often referred to as ""stops"" or, in some parts of the world, as ""halts"" (flag stops). Stations may be at ground level, underground,"
"signals, a station stop does not. A station stop usually does not have any tracks other than the main tracks, and may or may not have switches (points, crossovers). A halt, in railway parlance in the Commonwealth of Nations and Republic of Ireland, is a small station, usually unstaffed or with very few staff, and with few or no facilities. In some cases, trains stop only on request, when passengers on the platform indicate that they wish to board, or passengers on the train inform the crew that they wish to alight. In the United Kingdom, most former halts on"
"goods depot apart from the passenger station. Dual-purpose stations can sometimes still be found today, though in many cases goods facilities are restricted to major stations. In rural and remote communities across Canada and the United States, passengers wanting to board the train had to flag the train down in order for it to stop. Such stations were known as ""flag stops"" or ""flag stations"". Many stations date from the 19th century and reflect the grandiose architecture of the time, lending prestige to the city as well as to railway operations. Countries where railways arrived later may still have such"
"and had become official by 1922. No. 4 Passing Place was not one of these, it was called No. 4 throughout its short life. No platforms ever existed at any of the stopping places; passengers were expected to board and alight from the roadway or trackside cinders according to the location. The ""stations"" were much more commonly referred to as ""halts"" or ""stopping places."" Passengers bought their tickets from conductors on board the cars. No. 4 Passing Place was a Request Stop, people hailed a car by giving a clear signal to the motorman or conductor as appropriate. Tramcars arrived"
"and had become official by 1915. Great Coates Level Crossing was such a halt, taking its name from the rural Woad Lane which crossed the tracks at this point. No platforms ever existed at any of the stopping places; passengers were expected to board and alight from the roadway or trackside cinders according to the location. The ""stations"" were much more commonly referred to as ""halts"" or ""stopping places."" Passengers bought their tickets from conductors on board the cars. Great Coates Level Crossing was a Request Stop, people hailed a car by giving a clear signal to the motorman or"
"and had become official by 1915. Marsh Road Level Crossing was such a halt, taking its name from the rural lane which crossed the tracks at this point. No platforms ever existed at any of the stopping places; passengers were expected to board and alight from the roadway or trackside cinders according to the location. The ""stations"" were much more commonly referred to as ""halts"" or ""stopping places."" Passengers bought their tickets from conductors on board the cars. Marsh Road Level Crossing was a Request Stop, people hailed a car by giving a clear signal to the motorman or conductor"
"to allow trains to pass. A track with a spot at the station to board and disembark trains is called station track or house track regardless of whether it is a main line or loop line. If such track is served by a platform, the track may be called platform track. A loop line without a platform which is used to allow a train to clear the main line at the station only, it is called passing track. A track at the station without a platform which is used for trains to pass the station without stopping is called through"
"will be able to accept more freight trains, but a route capacity of 15 freight trains per hour would be very unusual. Stations in a railway system, and where train are required to stop to pick up or drop off passengers, serves to reduce the route capacity. This is particularly the case where trains of different stopping patterns are moving one after another through a rail system. Dwell time, known as layover in the US, is the time taken from the opening of train doors at a station, to their closing again. Dwell times strongly influence route capacity in a"
"by a crew member while the train continued to move past the station. With the latter, the paper order was placed in a train order fork or hoop, either held by the operator as the train passed or mounted at trackside. The train and engine crews addressed by the order were required to observe the instructions provided in the train order, the details of which were provided by the railroad's operating rule book. A train-order station is a control point at which trains can be stopped and controlled through the use of train orders. A station has a distinct name,"
"and had become official by 1922. No. 6 Passing Place was not one of these, it was called No.6 throughout its short life. No platforms ever existed at any of the stopping places; passengers were expected to board and alight from the roadway or trackside cinders according to the location. The ""stations"" were much more commonly referred to as ""halts"" or ""stopping places."" Passengers bought their tickets from conductors on board the cars. No. 6 Passing Place was a Request Stop, people hailed a car by giving a clear signal to the motorman or conductor as appropriate. Tramcars arrived from"
"an area where passengers can board and alight from trains. A goods station is a yard which is exclusively used for loading and unloading cargo. Large passenger stations have at least one building providing conveniences for passengers, such as purchasing tickets and food. Smaller stations typically only consist of a platform. Early stations were sometimes built with both passenger and goods facilities. Platforms are used to allow easy access to the trains, and are connected to each other via underpasses, footbridges and level crossings. Some large stations are built as culs-de-sac, with trains only operating out from one direction. Smaller"
"less common, though they have been more common in the past. In addition to its use for storage facilities, in North America the term ""depot"" is sometimes used as an alternative name for ""station"", along with the compound forms ""train depot"", ""railway depot"", and ""railroad depot"", but also applicable for goods and other vehicles. The world's first recorded railway station was The Mount on the Oystermouth Railway (later to be known as the Swansea and Mumbles) in Swansea, Wales, which began passenger service in 1807, although the trains were horsedrawn rather than by locomotives. The two-storey Mount Clare station in"
"Railroad stations (Buffalo and Detroit) have since closed, and the Baltimore and Pittsburgh stations have returned to the name Pennsylvania Station. The Philadelphia station is now known as simply 30th Street Station. Pennsylvania Station Pennsylvania Station (normally abbreviated Penn Station) is a name applied by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) to several of its grand passenger terminals. In the early 20th century different railroad companies typically used different stations, especially in major cities or towns, so the station usually took the name of the company. (If various railroads combined to use the same depot, the place often took the name Union"
"wait at a siding for a priority train to pass from behind, and to keep at least one block spacing between trains going the same direction. Train orders could also reverse the superiority of trains, or give extra or inferior trains rights over superior trains in order to accommodate abnormal operating conditions. In North American railway traffic control, a ""Form 19"" or ""31"" train order would modify their schedule. An order which did not require a train to stop was called a ""Y"" (yellow) train order. The operator at the station would display a Yellow signal, which would cause the"
"required minimum human overhead in an era before widespread use of technology-based automation. It was the most practical way for railroads with limited capital resources, or lines with limited traffic, to operate. To this day, a large number of short lines, heritage railways, and railroad museums continue to use Train Order operation. On major railroads, train order operation has been almost completely replaced by more modern operating methods. The Long Island Rail Road in New York is the last major railroad in North America to use a ""traditional"" Train Order operating practice on parts of its Greenport and Montauk Branches,"
"later, the railroad abandoned the line. By December 1944, the rails were being removed. The main line also saw fewer riders as the years passed, and on March B, 1958, with daily ridership numbering between 400 and 500 commuters, the New York State Public Service Commission gave its approval for the railroad to stop passenger service on the line. The last day of service was June 1, 1958, and the station was abandoned, the line now only being used for freight. Conrail continued to operate the line for freight use, though by 1979 trains only ran twice a day, and"
"the Union Pacific railways, which managed the station in Denver, Colorado. Union station A union station (also known as a union terminal and a joint station in Europe) is a railway station where tracks and facilities are shared by two or more separate railway companies, allowing passengers to connect conveniently between them. The term 'union station' is used in North America and 'joint station' is used in Europe. In the U.S., union stations are typically used by all passenger trains serving a city, although exceptions exist. For example, in Chicago, the Illinois Central and Chicago & North Western depots coexisted"
"are carrying out safety-critical tasks. This is the only intermediate station where the crossing loop is in the station, consequently there are two platforms. It is imperative to inform the guard that you are crossing at this location, because unless it is known that there are passengers to cross from the second train arriving, to depart on the first train that arrived, the first train that arrived will depart before the second train has completely stopped, making the transfer of passengers from the later-arriving train onto the earlier-arriving train unworkable. Originally named ""Hollowstones"", after the adjacent farm, it opened to"
"to be a train station that would deliver supplies and small packages, and then it was decided that it would also serve passenger trains. The Terminal Train Station eventually started to serve, on average, fifty passenger trains per day, and even greeted presidents such as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Theodore Roosevelt. However, this does not include the traffic and materials that were also coming in due to the non-passenger trains. American railroad passenger traffic declined after World War II, and even more so in the 1950s and 1960s, due to competition from better cars and interstate systems, along with"
"the Saint Paul Union Depot, and the Memphis Union Station. A typical use for a stub-end passenger station would be as follows: A wye was incorporated at the 'throat' where the rows of tracks converged from the station. It facilitated the turning of trains. Each arriving train passed the wye and came to a stop. Once the switches on the wye are aligned, the train reversed, with the brakeman at the rear of the last car regulating the speed with the brake lever upon approach to the platform and then coming to a complete stop at the end of the"
"History of passenger rail in Chicago During the heyday of rail transportation in the first half of the 20th century, Chicago, Illinois reigned as the undisputed railroad center of the United States and was served by six intercity train terminals. With the decline of rail passenger service many of these facilities disappeared; today only Union Station remains in use in a substantially original form, and is the only one served by Amtrak trains. The Chicago and North Western Passenger Terminal has been replaced with a newer station and renamed Ogilvie Transportation Center, and LaSalle Street Station has also been replaced"
"application occurs when either the required reply is not filed within the required time period or an express abandonment is filed. Abandonment is permission sought by or granted to a carrier by a state or federal agency to cease operation of all or part of a route or service. This has a legal signification in England recognized by statute, by authority of which the Board of Trade may, under certain circumstances, grant a warrant to a railway authorizing the abandonment of its line or part of it. Likewise, in the United States, the Surface Transportation Board grants permission to abandon"
"Goods station A goods station (also known as a goods yard or goods depot) or freight station is, in the widest sense, a railway station where, either exclusively or predominantly, goods (or freight), such as merchandise, parcels, and manufactured items, are loaded onto or unloaded off of ships or road vehicles and/or where goods wagons are transferred to local sidings. A station where goods are not specifically received or dispatched, but simply transferred on their way to their destination between the railway and another means of transport, such as ships or lorries, may be referred to as a transshipment station."
"and may have any of the following: A train order station need not be at a passenger or freight station, nor does such a station have to handle train orders. In isolated areas, train order stations may be required where there are no towns, to facilitate smooth operation. In denser areas, passenger stations may be spaced more closely than train order stations. A station may staffed by an operator who receives train orders and gives them to trains as they pass. Operators also record the passage of trains by their station. Upon receipt of an order, the operator makes copies"
"Train order operation Train order operation, or more accurately timetable and train order operation, is a largely obsolete system by which the railroads of North America conveyed operating instructions before the days of centralized traffic control, direct traffic control, and the use of track warrants conveyed by radio. The system used a set of rules when direct communication between train dispatchers and trains was limited or non-existent. Trains would follow a predetermined operating plan, known as the timetable, unless superseded by train orders conveyed to the train from the dispatcher, through local intermediaries. Train order operation was a system that"
"La Junta, Colorado; Raton, New Mexico; Las Vegas, New Mexico; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Gallup, New Mexico; Winslow, Arizona; Seligman, Arizona; Needles, California; Barstow, California; San Bernardino, California; and Pasadena, California. During the pre-war years the ""Super Chief"" did not allow passengers to board or disembark at any point between Kansas City and Barstow; intermediate stops were operating stops only, to change crews or to service the train. During the war the rules were relaxed to carry passengers to and from Albuquerque and La Junta, but only when unsold space was available at train time. Not until the postwar era could"
"Louisville Railroad (""Monon Railroad""), Illinois Central, New York Central, New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad (""Nickel Plate Road"") and Pennsylvania Railroad. After World War II, intercity passenger rail travel in the United States began to decline. Throughout the 1960s and well into the post-Amtrak era the number of train passengers declined to such a trickle that in cities where rail stations didn't serve commuter traffic, most were allowed to physically decline to a point where many were closed and some demolished. Indianapolis' Union Station almost suffered that fate. By the late 1970s, vagrants and vandals had taken over much"
"steam engines by diesel locomotives many of the then obsolete water stops, especially in deserted areas, became ghost towns. Isolated water stops were among favorite ambush places for train robbers. Water stop A water stop or water station on a railroad is a place where steam trains stop to replenish water. The stopping of the train itself is also referred to as a ""water stop"". The term originates from the times of steam engines when large amounts of water were essential. Also known as wood and water stops or coal and water stops, since it was reasonable to replenish engines"
"service to . Later, locomotive-hauled, passengers were accommodated by attaching a specially adapted guard's van to conventional goods trains; the adaptation consisted of putting some seating in the van's goods section. This was known on the line as a ""Fly"", though the term appears to have been used interchangeably to mean the vehicle and the train. Passenger traffic was slight and general goods was substantially less than the line's promoters foresaw, especially after the line was effectively bypassed in the 1860s then truncated in 1892. The sparsely populated, largely agricultural area surrounding the curve meant that coal was the only"
"system. In general, the same train name was used for both directions of a particular train. The exceptions to this rule included the ""Chicagoan"" and ""Kansas Cityan"" trains (both names referred to the same service, but the ""Chicagoan"" was the eastbound version, while the ""Kansas Cityan"" was the westbound version), and the ""Eastern Express"" and ""West Texas Express"". All AT&SF trains that terminated in Chicago did so at Dearborn Station. Trains terminating in Los Angeles arrived at AT&SF's La Grande Station until May 1939, when the Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal (LAUPT) was opened. To reach smaller communities, the railroad"
"for the limited traffic generated. When the railway re-opened after World War II, 'Greatstone Dunes' was renamed 'Greatstone Halt', unstaffed, with its buildings closed. The waiting room on the inland platform had been incorporated into an army pillbox during hostilities. In 1950 tourist trade picked up, and travellers sought out the beaches at Greatstone. The halt was upgraded again to full station status, now known simply as 'Greatstone' (without the 'Dunes' suffix), the buildings were renovated or replaced, and staff were reinstated. This new lease of life lasted for 14 years. At some point (date unknown) the remaining original station"