More and more airports are connected to the (inter)national railway network

Examples in Europe are:
Oslo; Gardermoen
http://home.no.net/joje/julen2001/Img_1428f.jpg

Stockholm; Arlanda
http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/se/private/Arlanda/X3_402A_Arlanda_Norra_020309.jpg

Copenhagen; Kastrup
http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/dk/station/kastrup2001_5.jpg

Amsterdam; Schiphol
http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/nl/station/Schiphol/schiphol06.jpg

Berlin; Schönefeld
http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/de/station/Berlin/misc/02b_flughafen_berlin-schoenefeld.jpg

Halle/Leipzig airport
http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/de/station/Leipzig/strs_lha_6.jpg

Cologne; Köln/Bonn airport
http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/de/station/Koeln-Bonn-Airport/kb_airport10.jpg

Düsseldorf airport
http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/de/station/Duesseldorf/000900A_DSC00247a.jpg

Frankurt airport
http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/de/electric/emu/ICE/ICE-3M/misc/db_403000-0_3.jpg

Paris; Charles de Gaulle
http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/fr/station/Paris_Roissy_CDG/RT2004-06-14_10-23-46.jpg

London; Heatrow
http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/gb/electric/emu-ac/332/P1010001.jpg

Some even have highspeed rail connexion, so domestic flight airline-passengers can be booked on highspeedtrains to reserve slots for long distance flights.

Air France bookes his passengers travelling from Charles de Gaulle to Brussels on to the Thalys highspeedtrain.
Lufthansa passengers to Cologne of Stuttgart traveling via Frankfurt on the ICE-trains.

In mine opinion it is good that short flyght will be replaced by HSR-services. Train-journey must not be longer as 3 or 4 hours though, will it be realistic that passengers will change from Flighing to HSR-travel.

East Asia
- Singapore Changi Airport Via The Mass Rapid Transit East West Line (Subway).
- Kuala Lumpur International Airport Via The KLIA Express (Dedicated High Speed Rail Line).
- Hong Kong International Airport Via The Airport Express (Dedicated High Speed Rail Line).
- Shanghai Pudong International Airport Via The Shanghai Maglev Train (Dedicated High Speed Rail Line).
- Tokyo Narita Airport Via The Narita Express & More.
- Tokyo Haneda Airport Via The Tokyo Monorail & More.

Australia
- Sydney Airport Via The Airport Link

All the major international airports in Japan have its own stations and are directly connected to the railway network

Tokyo Narita Airport (JR line and Keisei line. Another line is now under constrcution)
(JR's Narita Terminal 1 Station)
http://www62.tok2.com/home/tsubame787/seat_253new/01.jpg

Tokyo Haneda Airport (Keikyu line and monorail)
(Monorail's Haneda Terminal 2 station)
http://blog.livedoor.jp/salve7/d8d80bbd.jpg

Sapporo ShinChitose Airport (JR line)
(JR's Shin Chitose Airport Station)
http://www.chitose-air-museum.com/narrow/image/tour-02.jpg

Sendai Airport (JR line)

Nagoya Chubu Airport (Meitetsu line)
(Chubu Airport Station)
http://www.tcp-ip.or.jp/~k-suzuki/train/050129_airport_line/Img2005-01-29_0023_2110_2304s.jpg

Osaka Itami Airport (monorail)

Osaka Kansai Airport (JR line and Nankai line)
(Nankai's Kansai Airport Station)
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~PU7T-KMR/nanki73.jpg

Kobe Airport (skytrain)
(skytrain on Airport Line)
http://www.nikkei.co.jp/kansai/news/img/28706-1.jpg

Fukuoka Airport (subway)
(Airport Station of Fukuoka Subway Airport Line)
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~PU7T-KMR/ktx/ktx82.jpg

Naha Airport (monorail)
(Okinawa Monorail, Airport Station)
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~NS4T-TRZN/tabi/13/13-m03.jpg

I am assuming that metros do not count? :?

someone post pics of Zurich aiport's rail connection...

Hong Kong has the Airport Express :)

Australia has two examples of cities with rail links to their airports, Brisbane and Sydney.

Brisbane's Airport line operates a route combined with the line to the Gold Coast down south via Brisbane City. The line has an elevated branch for the last few kilometres beyond Eagle Junction.

The elevated section at Toombul, just northeast of Eagle Junction:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/AussieBhoy/BrisSep2005/Toombul2.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/AussieBhoy/BrisSep2005/Toombul1.jpg

International station on the Airport line branch:
http://users.iafrica.com/n/no/nols/Images_Briz_AP_train/Briz_AP_Railway_1.JPG

http://users.iafrica.com/n/no/nols/Images_Briz_AP_train/Briz_AP_Railway_2.JPG

http://users.iafrica.com/n/no/nols/Images_Briz_AP_train/Briz_AP_Railway_3.JPG

http://users.iafrica.com/n/no/nols/Images_Briz_AP_train/Briz_AP_Railway_4.JPG

http://users.iafrica.com/n/no/nols/Images_Briz_AP_train/Briz_AP_Railway_5.JPG

http://users.iafrica.com/n/no/nols/Images_Briz_AP_train/Briz_AP_Railway_6.JPG

http://users.iafrica.com/n/no/nols/Images_Briz_AP_train/Briz_AP_Railway_7.JPG

Sydney's Airport line is a little different from Brisbane's. Instead of operating an elevated track to the airport, it runs underground from south of Central Station and passes through Green Square and Mascot stations before reaching the Domestic and International stations, before continuing on to Wolli Creek and the rest of the East Hills line. So in this case it forms part of a main line, and not a branch line.

Melbourne has had an airport link envisioned for some time but it does not look like it will go ahead anytime in the near future.

Vancouver is getting a subway connection to its airport YVR set to open in 2009, it will be the first airport in Canada with a rail connection.
http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/1648/station26jb.jpg
(model of the International terminal station)



Right now the only airport in the Pacific Northwest is Portland with MAX Lightrail.
http://www.nwvirtualtransit.com/tours/airport/airport3.jpg

In Copenhagen/Malmö, you check in (flight) on the train stations instead of at the airport if arriving by train (the train is a part of the whole "flight route") - does it work the same way everywhere? I watched a tv show about Hong Kong's airport and it appeared to have the same procedures as here.

someone post pics of Zurich aiport's rail connection...
It's hard to find any good pics. The rail connection is all underground.
These are the tracks:
http://www.sengers.ch/izueri/flughafen/DSC_2998.jpg

more impressive is the hall above the tracks:
http://www.sengers.ch/izueri/flughafen/DSC_3000.jpg
http://www.sengers.ch/izueri/flughafen/DSC_3005.jpg

Here a map from the airport:
http://mapdata.maple.search.ch/chmap.jpg?layer=bg,fg,copy&zd=8&x=1561&y=-5323&poi=zug&q=&merge=1&w=560&h=420&base=

The dashed black line is the rail tunnel. The blue train symbol that is under the airport is the train station.

And here a list with some connections:
http://fahrplan.sbb.ch/bin/bhftafel.exe/dn?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that the original post by Boris was about National or International rail connections from Airports rather that just urban rail links. Most city airports have urban rail links, but the concept of "National" trains also from these airports are not so common.

I say this because on his list he seems to only show the Long Distance stations which differ to the urban stations. i.e. in addition to the station he shows for Frankfurt, there is also an S-bahn station seperate which he doesn't mention, which is a suburban rail line that travels only in the metro area of Frankfurt.

The national stations he points out are used for inner city travel. i.e. Landing at Frankfurt airport, you can transfer to a high speed ICE train for a 300km/hr service to say the city of Köln, amongst plenty of other cities. You could even hop on a train at that station and get off in Brussels, Belgium.

In this case, as far as I know, the Sydney station doesn't count. It is possible that the Brisbane station may half count, if it offers a service to the Gold Coast, but the proximity of the GC, and many people believing it should be included in Brisbane's metropolitan area could also deny this entry.

Also, if this is the case, even Boris made an error as the London Heathrow line is a suburban connection only to the city.

Hong Kong International Airport has an express rail service into the city.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that the original post by Boris was about National or International rail connections from Airports rather that just urban rail links. Most city airports have urban rail links, but the concept of "National" trains also from these airports are not so common.

I say this because on his list he seems to only show the Long Distance stations which differ to the urban stations. i.e. in addition to the station he shows for Frankfurt, there is also an S-bahn station seperate which he doesn't mention, which is a suburban rail line that travels only in the metro area of Frankfurt.

The national stations he points out are used for inner city travel. i.e. Landing at Frankfurt airport, you can transfer to a high speed ICE train for a 300km/hr service to say the city of Köln, amongst plenty of other cities. You could even hop on a train at that station and get off in Brussels, Belgium.

In this case, as far as I know, the Sydney station doesn't count. It is possible that the Brisbane station may half count, if it offers a service to the Gold Coast, but the proximity of the GC, and many people believing it should be included in Brisbane's metropolitan area could also deny this entry.

Also, if this is the case, even Boris made an error as the London Heathrow line is a suburban connection only to the city.

At the moment there are only lokal services to and from Heathrow airport at the time; but longdistance train services from Heatrow are technically possible while the line is connected to the (inter)national railnetwork.

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/system/galleries/download/print_maps/LC_May_x05.pdf (http://)

Boston Logan Airport Station.
http://www.behindthenet.org/pix/boston/boston-Images/8.jpg

http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2004/06/03/1086294278_6816.jpg

Milano Malpensa Airport train station now is working just with train links to center Milan

http://image04.webshots.com/4/8/19/75/55281975HKDuyW_ph.jpg

http://image40.webshots.com/40/4/31/4/308543104DwPoCA_ph.jpg

http://www.lightningfield.com/log3/1116b.jpg

But they wanted to upgrade it with national links: they would probably begin by next year during Winter Olympics in Turin; they will link Turin with Malpensa airport by HS trains... :)

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Surely interesting even the train station in Roma Fiumicino: but I really don't know if they're going to upgrade it to "national" station... maybe, if they'll do it with Malpensa...

http://oasis.halfmoon.jp/extphoto/ita2_photo/pc271266.jpg

http://www.adr.it/photo/PanoramicaFCO502x246.jpg

Geneva - the airport is only 6 minutes from the city centre by rail :

http://www.globalphotos.org/munich/20050423/DSCN8930.jpg

City Centre Terminal - Gare Cornavin

http://www.globalphotos.org/geneva/20050424/RIMG0258.jpg

London Stansted Express

http://www.arup.com/IMAGEBANK/image2525.jpg

London Gatwick Express

http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/photos/london-20040618/gatwick-express.jpg

Docklands Light Railway (Connection to London City Airport being built now)

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dodger/wall06-1.jpg

All of these connect the London Airports to central London.

http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/de/station/Berlin/misc/02b_flughafen_berlin-schoenefeld.jpg

Yes - that's typically Germany - Our capital's airport station :runaway:

^^^

The good news is that it won't lose it's connection with the national ICE network when the new nord-south line is completed. But they still don't know wich ICE-line will stop at the airport, the DB isn't to keen on keeping it an ICE station

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~PU7T-KMR/nanki73.jpg

Wow, that's a futuristic design! :eek2:

Hong Kong Airport Express (from http://www.gakei.com)

http://www.gakei.com/aex/aex05.jpg

http://www.gakei.com/aex/aex08.jpg

http://www.gakei.com/aex/aex01.jpg

http://www.gakei.com/aex/aex07.jpg

http://www.gakei.com/aex/aex02.jpg

Septa in Philadelphia PA has the R1 airport line that runs from Glenside, PA to Center city (downtown) and then stops at all terminals of the airport. Trains run every 30 minutes.

http://community.webshots.com/

Wayne Junction Station:
http://img344.imageshack.us/img344/5007/28098912kcstzfnlusph9ts.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Terminal E Station. The end of the line for airport trains:
http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/5713/65408233gglshnph3lj.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

R1 train on siding near Glenside Station. R5 passing
http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/7223/28099735wddebihjmcph6so.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

O' Hare International Airport, Chicago.

Atlanta's Marta Rail system has a station in the main terminal building at ATL. Very convenient to get to Downtown, Midtown, Buckhead and Perimeter Center.

Additionally, a monorail type system will be built from the same main terminal to a consolidated rental car facility and the new International Convention Center in College Park.

Lyon Saint-Exupéry airport station
http://graphics7.nytimes.com/images/2003/10/22/nyregion/22CALA.3xl.jpg
http://www.ronet.pl/archi/calatrava/2o.jpg
http://archilive.digitalmark.be/images/lyon%20calatrava_kl.jpg
http://www.athenaeum.ch/Lyon/Calatrava/Calatrava_Lyon_DSCN0293.jpg
http://joerg-hempel.com/albums/A76/A_76_1.jpg
http://jonathan.rawle.org/pg/esrf/images/station_in.jpg
http://www.ronet.pl/archi/calatrava/2l.jpg
http://www.acnusa.fr/images/images-rub_aeroports/aerports_lyon_photo.jpg
http://www.socgeo.org/aeugeo/images/lyon_saint-ex.jpg

WOW!! Lyon's has an awesome looking airport. Very artistic and unique. But I'd be willing to bet that the main terminal was designed by Calatrava? It seems to be his style, which he seems to duplicate all over the world.

KLIA Express, a Hedicated High Speed connection between KLIA Airport (KUL) and KL Sentral Station, which is a city air terminal with check in facilities, Airport code (XKL).

KLIA transit, stops at stations in between.

Both operated by ERL (express rail link)

http://www.kliaekspres.com/

http://www.kl-hotels.com/meridien/images/klexpress.jpg

http://www.big.or.jp/~aochan/travel/ktmtrain/erl1.jpg

http://www.big.or.jp/~aochan/travel/ktmtrain/erl2.jpg

http://www.big.or.jp/~aochan/travel/ktmtrain/erl05.jpg

http://www.form.de/data/a_r.img/a_r.251ea36cd4ae_KLIA.jpg

http://www.form.de/data/a_r.img/a_r.872ed933f448_LIA_Innen.jpg

http://chonga.pe.kr/hongki/essay/img_2003_08_malaysia/112_1239_KLIA_Express.jpg

http://www.infoscreen.com.my/images/eks.jpg

http://forum.nifty.com/fworld/malaysia/photo/photo/bandar_tasik04.jpg

In many cases, the railway connection to the airport is only a shuttle, connecting the airport to the city. But in some cases, the airport is hooked up to the national railway, allowing direct connections to a lot more cities. In my opinion, that's the best solution.

So, which airports are hooked up to more than only a shuttle? I know a few:

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol - direct local and intercity trains to a lot of destinations, as well as international trains to Brussels and Paris.

Paris Charles de Gaulle - hooked up to the TGV network, with direct connections all over France (in addition also hooked up to the Parisian suburban RER network).

Zurich Kloten Airport and Geneva Airport - lots of IC/IR trains to several destinations.

Copenhagen Kastrup - located on the Oresund railway between Copenhagen and Malmo.

Lyon Satolas - on the southeast TGV line (@Nick: the train station is indeed designed by Calatrava).

Any more?

san fransisco's bart was recently extended to sfo
http://images.nycsubway.org//i25000/img_25771.jpg
http://images.nycsubway.org//i41000/img_41573.jpg
http://images.nycsubway.org//i25000/img_25779.jpg

Athens International

http://www.aia.gr/EN/business/media/photo_gallery/images/airport_today/train_station/2.jpg
http://www.aia.gr/EN/business/media/photo_gallery/images/airport_today/train_station/3.jpg
http://www.proastiakos.gr/images/LargeOut10-02.jpg
http://www.proastiakos.gr/images/LargeOut11-03.jpg
http://www.proastiakos.gr/images/LargeOut16-08.jpg
http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/gm22632/24691/295851/0/Athens+Airport+-+Train+Station+5+-+Suburban+Train+Quays.JPG
http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/gr/metro/P8200005.jpg
http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/gm22632/24691/295850/0/Athens+Airport+-+Train+Station+4+-+Suburban+Train.JPG

Chicago O'hare

http://www.chicago-l.org/stations/images/Ohare/ohare14.jpg
http://www.chicago-l.org/stations/images/Ohare/ohare15.jpg
http://www.chicago-l.org/stations/images/Ohare/ohare13.jpg

Chicago Midway

http://www.chicago-l.org/stations/images/Midway/midway06.jpg
http://www.chicago-l.org/stations/images/Midway/midway05.jpg
http://www.chicago-l.org/trains/gallery/images/3200/cta3304.jpg

Both airports will be served by airport-express service from a new terminal at block 37 in the Loop in a few years. Block 37 is a huge mixed-use highrise project similar to Time Warner Center in New York. Construction on the whole project will begin this month.

As I said several posts before for turin winter Olympics a HS train connection will start between Milan Malpensa International Airport and the city of Turin

Here a pic of HS train Etr 500 in Malpensa train station for a test before service starts (on the right it is Malpensa Express, the train for connections with Milan city center)

http://www.**************/public/22112005162528_DSC_3134.jpg

Barcelona is linked to its airport by train since 1970!
:yes:
Metro, high speed and international trains will arrive to the airport by 2009.
:okay:

All the major international airports in Japan have its own stations and are directly connected to the railway network

A new addition. Sendai Airport station will open in 2006.
http://www.pref.miyagi.jp/rinku/image/12ap_st.jpg

Although not physically connected to the airport, this train station opened recently, and is connected to the airport by a free shuttle. You can get on the train and head downtown, or to Chicago.

http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/travel/rail/mars.htm

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that the original post by Boris was about National or International rail connections from Airports rather that just urban rail links. Most city airports have urban rail links, but the concept of "National" trains also from these airports are not so common.

I say this because on his list he seems to only show the Long Distance stations which differ to the urban stations. i.e. in addition to the station he shows for Frankfurt, there is also an S-bahn station seperate which he doesn't mention, which is a suburban rail line that travels only in the metro area of Frankfurt.

The national stations he points out are used for inner city travel. i.e. Landing at Frankfurt airport, you can transfer to a high speed ICE train for a 300km/hr service to say the city of Köln, amongst plenty of other cities. You could even hop on a train at that station and get off in Brussels, Belgium.

In this case, as far as I know, the Sydney station doesn't count. It is possible that the Brisbane station may half count, if it offers a service to the Gold Coast, but the proximity of the GC, and many people believing it should be included in Brisbane's metropolitan area could also deny this entry.

Also, if this is the case, even Boris made an error as the London Heathrow line is a suburban connection only to the city.

Well its a bit hard to have a national connection in Australia since some of the states are as big as Europe. The way it works in Australia is the trains to the airport will realistically only serve the region. Brisban train line serves SEQ including Gold Coast, Brisbane etc. Any further then that and you may as well get a connecting flight.

Oslo airport Gardermoen is connected with the national railways. Actually I'll pass it on my way north later today.

And interesting feature here is how you pay for the airport express-train ticket. Just slide your creditcard through a small machine before entering the train, and the same when you get off. Is this common other places?

Here's a couple of more photos of the trains(ADtranz). Their max-speed is 210km, and they use 19-21 minutes from downtown to the airport(~45km), every second train making an extra stop at Lillestrøm. They depart every 10 minutes.

http://www.jernbane.net/norge/bm/bm71/8.jpg

http://www.jernbane.net/norge/bm/bm71/Flytoget1.jpg

Time for some history !

Which city was linked by a railway with its airport the first ?
I've read that London Gatwick was the first in Europe ( 1936 ).
What about the United States ?

Some additional information :

Brussels Zaventem : 1955
Amsterdam Schiphol : 1978

Well its a bit hard to have a national connection in Australia since some of the states are as big as Europe. The way it works in Australia is the trains to the airport will realistically only serve the region. Brisban train line serves SEQ including Gold Coast, Brisbane etc. Any further then that and you may as well get a connecting flight.

And with places like Melbourne, the airport is a good 20km or so out of the city and not near any existing rail lines, so a main station in the centre would do the job so much better - the bus (and future rail links) all connect back to Southern Cross Station anyway, where you then take whatever train (suburban or regional) you want from there. It's not like you could divert many of the regional lines through Tullamarine anyway.

The problem with Melbourne is that there isn't really any existing rail line near the airport, there's a few you could branch from but it wouldn't be very cheap, since there isn't a corridor for the rail line.

WOW!! Lyon's has an awesome looking airport. Very artistic and unique. But I'd be willing to bet that the main terminal was designed by Calatrava? It seems to be his style, which he seems to duplicate all over the world.


You're true! But Calatrava designed only the Railway (TGV) station, which is bird-shaped.

Time for some history !

Which city was linked by a railway with its airport the first ?
I've read that London Gatwick was the first in Europe ( 1936 ).


Not true!
Berlin Tempelhof has its own Metrostation since 1923. It is also the oldest commercial airport in the world btw.

Yes - that's typically Germany - Our capital's airport station :runaway:

It is planned that Berlin Schönefeld will be upgraded to become the main airport of the region (future name will be Berlin Brandenburg International) by 2011, but currently is still a very small airport with only 3 million passengers/year. Berlin Tegel (Berlin International) handles still the most traffic and is therefore currently the main airport of the German capital.