Many major railway stations that are involved in intermodal passenger transport are assigned codes by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), similar to IATA airport codes. Such railway stations are typically used in air-rail alliances or code sharing agreements (commonly known as "Rail Fly") between airlines and rail lines, particularly in Europe. By assigning railway stations an IATA code, passengers on trips involving those stations can be ticketed all the way through the journey, including being checked straight through to their final destination, without the bother of having to claim their baggage and check-in again when changing between the rail and air portions of a trip. At other places, passengers have to carry their baggage onto the train, but need no separate train booking process.
Airport locations
Rail lines and stations at airports include:
- Austria
- Belgium
- Antwerp International Airport
- Antwerpen-Berchem railway station, located 2 km (1.2 mi) from airport
- Antwerpen-Centraal railway station, located 4 km (2.5 mi) from airport
- Brussels Airport
- Brussels Airport-Zaventem railway station, beneath terminal
- Brussels-South railway station, located 14.3 km (8.9 mi) from airport
- Denmark
- Copenhagen Airport
- Copenhagen Airport railway station, beneath terminal
- Copenhagen Central Station, located 8.3 km (5.2 mi) from airport
- Finland
- Helsinki Airport
- Helsinki Airport station, beneath terminal
- Helsinki Central Station, located 18.3 km (11.4 mi) from airport
- Tikkurila railway station, located 6 km (3.7 mi) from airport
- France
- Charles de Gaulle Airport
- Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 1 station, beneath terminal, linked to CDGVAL and RER B
- Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 2 TGV station, beneath terminal, linked to CDGVAL, TGV, SNCF and LGV Interconnexion Est
- Lyon–Saint-Exupéry Airport
- Lyon-Saint-Exupéry TGV station, attached to airport
- Lyon-Part-Dieu station, located 18.4 km (11.4 mi) from airport, linked by Rhônexpress
- Germany
- Cologne Bonn Airport
- Cologne/Bonn Airport station, connected by the Cologne Airport loop to the Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed rail line, using Intercity Express and Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn
- Düsseldorf Airport
- Düsseldorf Airport station, connected to terminals by Düsseldorf SkyTrain
- Düsseldorf Airport Terminal station, located under Terminal C, serviced by Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn
- Frankfurt Airport
- Leipzig/Halle Airport
(AIRail Service with Deutsche Bahn).
- Italy
- Milan Malpensa Airport
- Malpensa Aeroporto Terminal 1 railway station, serviced by Malpensa Express
- Malpensa Aeroporto Terminal 2 railway station, serviced by Malpensa Express
- Milano Centrale railway station, located 48.9 km (30.4 mi) from airport, linked by Malpensa Express
- Netherlands
- Amsterdam Airport Schiphol near Amsterdam, Netherlands. Air France-KLM offers tickets including flights to and from Amsterdam or Paris with corresponding trains and/or buses to Belgium.
- Norway
- Sweden
- Stockholm Arlanda Airport, air tickets usable for Swedish State Railways.
- Switzerland
- Geneva Airport
- Geneva Airport railway station, underground, next to airport, serviced by Swiss Federal Railways
- Zurich Airport railway station (Swiss Federal Railways)
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- Birmingham Airport
- Birmingham International railway station, connected to the airport by the Air-Rail Link
- London
- Gatwick Airport railway station has connections to London and other points on the National Rail Network
- Heathrow Airport stations (Heathrow Express and London Underground Piccadilly line)
- London Stansted Airport (Stansted Express)
- London City Airport (Docklands Light Railway)
- Manchester Airport station
- Glasgow Prestwick Airport railway station
- United States
- Newark Liberty International Airport, Newark, New Jersey, United States (near New York, New York), with Amtrak.
- Baltimore/Washington International Airport, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, with Amtrak.
Railway station codes
The IATA codes for railway stations normally begin with Q, X or Z, except when the station shares the code with an airport. For some smaller cities the railway station in the city has the same code as the airport outside the city (several kilometers distance). A connection involving transfer between them can appear when searching travel possibilities. A taxi ride, a train, or a bus transfer is usually needed then.
- A
- ADB: Adnan Menderes Airport railway station, Gaziemir, Turkey
- AMS: Schiphol Airport railway station on the Weesp–Leiden railway line near Amsterdam, Netherlands; high-speed trains (Thalys and Intercity Direct) to Rotterdam, Brussels and Paris using HSL-Zuid stop at the station as well
- ARN: Arlanda North Station, Arlanda South Station, and Arlanda Central Station, Sigtuna Municipality, Sweden
- B
- BHX: Birmingham International railway station, Bickenhill, England, United Kingdom, connected to the airport by the Air-Rail Link
- BNJ: Bonn Hauptbahnhof, Sankt Augustin, Germany (at Bonn-Hangelar Airport (ICAO: EDKB))
- BOO: Bodø Station, Bodø, Norway, located 2.1 km (1.3 mi) from Bodø Airport
- BRS: Bristol Temple Meads railway station, Redcliffe, Bristol, England, United Kingdom, located 7.7 mi (12.4 km) from Bristol Airport, serviced by Airport Flyer
- BRU: Brussels Airport-Zaventem railway station, Zaventem, Belgium, located beneath the airport terminal
- C
- CBG: Cambridge railway station, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom, shares IATA code with Cambridge City Airport
- CDG: Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 1 station, Tremblay-en-France, serviced by CDGVAL and RER B; Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 2 TGV station, Roissy-en-France, serviced by CDGVAL, TGV, SNCF and LGV Interconnexion Est
- CGN: Cologne/Bonn Airport station, Cologne, Germany, located between two airport terminals, connected by the Cologne Airport loop to the Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed rail line, using Intercity Express and Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn
- CPH: Copenhagen Airport railway station, Tårnby, Denmark, located under the airport's Terminal 3
- D
- DUS: Düsseldorf Airport station, Germany on the Cologne–Duisburg railway line (SkyTrain people mover).
- E
- EWR: Newark Liberty International Airport Station, Newark, New Jersey, United States (2 km or 1.2 mi from the airport via monorail)
- F
- FRA: Frankfurt Airport long-distance station in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on the Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed rail line (walking distance from the airport)
- FVS: Finland Station, Saint Petersburg, Russia
- G
- GGZ: Graz Hauptbahnhof, Graz, Austria
- GVA: Geneva Airport railway station, Le Grand-Saconnex, Switzerland
- H
- HEC: Helsinki Central Station, Helsinki, Finland
- HVT: Tikkurila railway station, Helsinki, Finland
- I
- IOB: Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof, Innsbruck, Austria
- J
- JKG: Jönköping railway station, Sweden (11 km from the airport)
- K
- KGV: Klagenfurt Hauptbahnhof, Klagenfurt, Austria
- KLR: Kalmar railway station, Sweden (6 km from the airport)
- KSD: Karlstad railway station, Sweden (17 km from the airport)
- L
- LEJ: Leipzig/Halle Airport station, Schkeuditz, Germany
- LHR: London Heathrow stations: Central, T2,3, T4 tube, T4 rail, T5 (all inside Heathrow Airport perimeter).
- LPI: Linköping railway station, Sweden (3 km from the airport)
- LPL: Liverpool Lime Street railway station, England, United Kingdom
- LYS: Lyon-Saint-Exupéry TGV station, Colombier-Saugnieu, France
- LZS: Linz Hauptbahnhof, Linz, Austria
- M
- MAN: Manchester Airport station, Ringway, Manchester, England, United Kingdom
- MHG: Mannheim Hauptbahnhof, Mannheim, Germany
- MXP: Malpensa Aeroporto Terminal 1 railway station and Malpensa Aeroporto Terminal 2 railway station, Milan, Italy
- N
- NCL: Newcastle railway station, England, United Kingdom
- O
- OSD: Östersund railway station, Sweden (9 km from the airport)
- OSL: Oslo Airport Station, Norway (walking distance from the airport)
- P
- PIK: Prestwick International Airport railway station, Prestwick, Scotland, United Kingdom
- POK: St. Pölten Hauptbahnhof, St. Pölten, Austria
- Q
- QDH: Ashford International, Ashford, Kent, England, United Kingdom
- QDL: Lugano railway station, Lugano, Switzerland
- QDU: Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof, Düsseldorf, Germany
- QFB: Freiburg Hauptbahnhof, Freiburg, Germany
- QFV: Bergen station, Bergen, Norway
- QJZ: Nantes station, Nantes, France
- QKL: Köln Hauptbahnhof, Cologne, Germany
- QLJ: Lucerne railway station, Lucerne, Switzerland
- QLS: Lausanne railway station, Switzerland
- QPP: Berlin Hauptbahnhof, Berlin, Germany
- QQK: King's Cross railway station, London, England, United Kingdom
- QQM: Manchester Piccadilly station, Manchester, England, United Kingdom
- QQN: Birmingham New Street railway station, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
- QQP: London Paddington station, London, England, United Kingdom
- QQS: St Pancras railway station, London, England, United Kingdom
- QQU: Euston railway station, London, England, United Kingdom
- QQW: Waterloo International railway station, London, England, United Kingdom
- QQY: York railway station, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
- QRH: Rotterdam Centraal station, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- QRZ: Breda railway station, Breda, Netherlands
- QXB: Aix-en-Provence TGV station, Aix-en-Provence, France
- QXG: Angers-Saint-Laud station, Saint-Laud, Angers, France
- QYG: collective code for all German railway stations
- QYX: Uppsala Central Station, Uppsala, Sweden
- R
- RWA: Warszawa Centralna railway station, Warsaw, Poland
- S
- SGS: Shinagawa Station, Tokyo, Japan
- SIA: Southend Airport railway station at London Southend Airport (IATA: SEN, ICAO: EGMC), England, United Kingdom
- SOO: Söderhamn railway station, Sweden (same code as the old airport which has no scheduled flights anymore)
- STN: Stansted Airport railway station (Stansted Express, underneath airport of same code), England, United Kingdom
- SWS: Swansea railway station, Wales, United Kingdom
- T
- THN: Trollhättan railway station, Sweden (6 kilometres (3.7 mi) from the airport)
- TRD: Trondheim Airport Station, Norway (walking distance from the airport)
- TTK: Tottenham Hale station, London, England, United Kingdom (no airport)
- TYQ: Tokyo Station, Tokyo, Japan
- V
- VIE: Vienna Airport railway station, Austria
- VST: Västerås railway station, Sweden (6 kilometres (3.7 mi) from the airport)
- VXO: Växjö railway station, Sweden (9 kilometres (5.6 mi) from the airport)
- X
- XAT: Antibes station, Antibes, France
- XAX: Dorval, Montréal, Canada (2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from Montréal–Trudeau International Airport (IATA: YUL, ICAO: CYUL))
- XBF: Bellegarde station, Bellegarde-sur-Valserine, France
- XBK: Bourg-en-Bresse station, Bourg-en-Bresse, France
- XCG: Cagnes-sur-Mer station, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France
- XDB: Lille-Europe station, Lille, France
- XDH: Jasper station, Jasper, Alberta, Canada
- XDS: Ottawa station, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- XDV: Prince George station, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
- XDW: Prince Rupert station, Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada
- XDZ: The Pas station, The Pas, Manitoba, Canada
- XEA: Pacific Central Station, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- XED: Marne-la-Vallée–Chessy station, Chessy, Seine-et-Marne, France (for Disneyland Paris)
- XEF: Union Station, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- XEV: Stockholm Central Station, Stockholm, Sweden
- XEW: Flemingsberg railway station (formerly Stockholm Syd Flemingsberg), Flemingsberg, Sweden
- XFF: Calais-Fréthun station, Calais, France
- XFJ: Eskilstuna Central station, Eskilstuna, Sweden
- XFP: Malmö Central Station, Malmö, Sweden
- XGB: Gare Montparnasse, Paris, France
- XGC: Lund Central Station, Lund, Sweden
- XGH: Flåm Station, Flåm, Norway
- XGJ: Cobourg station, Cobourg, Canada
- XGZ: Bregenz railway station, Bregenz, Austria
- XHJ: Aachen Hauptbahnhof, Aachen, Germany
- XHK: Valence TGV station, Valence, Drôme, France
- XIA: Guelph Central Station, Guelph, Canada
- XIK: Milano Centrale railway station, Milan, Italy
- XIT: Leipzig Hauptbahnhof, Leipzig, Germany
- XIZ: Champagne-Ardenne TGV station, Bezannes, France
- XJY: Massy TGV station, Massy, Essonne, France
- XKL: Kuala Lumpur Sentral station, Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- XLM: Saint-Lambert station, Saint-Lambert, Montérégie, Quebec, Canada
- XLV: Niagara Falls station, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
- XOC: Madrid Atocha railway station, Madrid, Spain
- XOP: Poitiers station, Poitiers, France
- XPG: Gare du Nord, Paris, France
- XPH: Port Hope station, Port Hope, Ontario, Canada
- XPJ: Montpellier-Saint-Roch station, Montpellier, France
- XQE: Ebbsfleet International railway station, Ebbsfleet Valley, England, United Kingdom (Eurostar)
- XQT: Lichfield Trent Valley railway station, England, United Kingdom
- XRG: Rugeley Trent Valley railway station, England, United Kingdom
- XRF: Marseille-Saint-Charles station, Marseille, France
- XRJ: Roma Termini railway station, Rome, Italy
- XRK: Moscow Paveletsky railway station, Moscow, Russia
- XSH: Tours Saint-Pierre-des-Corps railway station, Tours, France
- XVQ: Venezia Santa Lucia railway station, Venice, Italy
- XWC: Wien Hauptbahnhof, Vienna, Austria
- XWG: Strasbourg-Ville station, Strasbourg, France
- XWK: Karlskrona railway station, Karlskrona, Sweden
- XWL: Gothenburg Central Station, Gothenburg, Sweden
- XWR: Örebro railway station, Örebro, Sweden
- XWW: Wien Westbahnhof railway station, Vienna, Austria
- XXL: Lillehammer Station, Lillehammer, Norway
- XXQ: Keleti Pályaudvar, Budapest, Hungary
- XXZ: Sundsvall railway station, Sundsvall, Sweden
- XYB: Borlänge railway station, Borlänge, Sweden
- XYD: Lyon-Part-Dieu station, Lyon, France
- XYG: Praha hlavní nádraží, Prague, Czech Republic
- XYH: Helsingborg railway station, Helsingborg, Sweden
- XYJ: Praha-Holešovice, Prague, Czech Republic
- XYL: Lyon-Perrache station, Lyon, France
- XYM: Falkenberg Railway Station, Falkenberg, Sweden
- XZI: Lorraine TGV station, Louvigny, Moselle, France
- XZL: Edmonton station, Edmonton, Canada
- XZN: Avignon TGV station, Avignon, France
- XZO: Oslo Central Station, Oslo, Norway
- XZT: Trondheim Central Station, Trondheim, Norway
- XZV: Toulon station, Toulon, France
- Y
- YBZ: Union Station, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (about 3 km (1.9 mi) from Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport (IATA: YTZ, ICAO: CYTZ) by ferry and tunnel)
- YCM: St. Catharines station, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
- YJD: Barcelona França railway station, Barcelona, Spain
- YJH: San Sebastián railway station, San Sebastián, Spain
- YJL: Santander railway station, Santander, Spain
- YJV: Estació del Nord (Valencia), Valencia, Spain
- YMY: Montreal Central Station, Quebec, Canada (about 19 km from Montréal–Trudeau International Airport)
- Z
- ZAQ: Nürnberg Hauptbahnhof, Nuremberg, Germany
- ZBA: Basel Badischer Bahnhof, Basel, Switzerland
- ZBP: Baltimore Penn Station, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- ZBJ: Fredericia Station, Fredericia, Denmark
- ZDH: Basel SBB railway station, Basel, Switzerland
- ZDI: Bellinzona railway station, Bellinzona, Switzerland
- ZDJ: Bern railway station, Bern, Switzerland
- ZDL: Brig railway station, Brig, Switzerland
- ZDT: Chur railway station, Chur, Switzerland
- ZDU: Dundee railway station, Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
- ZDV: Davos Platz railway station, Davos, Switzerland
- ZEP: London Victoria station, England, United Kingdom
- ZEU: Göttingen station, Göttingen, Germany
- ZFJ: Rennes station, Rennes, France
- ZFQ: Bordeaux-Saint-Jean station, Bordeaux, France
- ZFT: Fort Lauderdale station, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
- ZFV: 30th Street Station, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- ZFZ: Buffalo–Depew station, Depew, New York, United States
- ZGD: New London Union Station, New London, Connecticut, United States
- ZGG: Glasgow Central railway station, Scotland, United Kingdom
- ZGH: Copenhagen Central Station, Copenhagen, Denmark
- ZHC: North Philadelphia station, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- ZHF: Fribourg/Freiburg railway station, Fribourg, Switzerland
- ZHS: Klosters Platz railway station, Klosters, Switzerland
- ZHT: Genève-Cornavin railway station, Geneva, Switzerland
- ZIN: Interlaken Ost railway station, Interlaken, Switzerland
- ZIV: Inverness railway station, Inverness, Scotland, United Kingdom
- ZJP: Montreux railway station, Montreux, Switzerland
- ZKD: Moscow Leningradsky railway station, Moscow, Russia
- ZKH: St. Moritz railway station, St. Moritz, Switzerland
- ZKO: Sierre/Siders railway station, Sierre, Switzerland
- ZKZ: Vevey railway station, Vevey, Switzerland
- ZLB: Visp railway station, Visp, Switzerland
- ZLN: Le Mans railway station, Le Mans, France
- ZLS: Liverpool Street station, London, England, United Kingdom
- ZLY: Albany–Rensselaer station, Rensselaer, New York, United States
- ZMB: Hamburg Hauptbahnhof, Hamburg, Germany
- ZME: Metropark station, Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, United States
- ZMI: Mergellina station, Naples, Italy
- ZML: Milwaukee Intermodal Station, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
- ZMS: Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station, Florence, Italy
- ZMU: München Hauptbahnhof, Munich, Germany
- ZPY: Siegburg/Bonn station, Siegburg, Germany
- ZRA: Atlantic City Rail Terminal, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States
- ZRB: Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof, Frankfurt, Germany
- ZRD: Richmond Main Street Station, Richmond, Virginia, United States
- ZRH: Zürich Airport railway station, Zürich, Switzerland
- ZRL: Lancaster station, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
- ZRP: Newark Penn Station, Newark, New Jersey, United States
- ZRT: Hartford Union Station, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
- ZRU: Route 128 station, Westwood, Massachusetts, United States
- ZRV: Providence station, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
- ZRZ: New Carrollton station, New Carrollton, Maryland, United States
- ZSB: Salzburg Hauptbahnhof ÖBB station, Salzburg, Austria
- ZSF: Springfield Union Station, Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
- ZSV: Gateway Transportation Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
- ZTD: Schenectady station, Schenectady, New York, United States
- ZTE: Louise M. Slaughter Rochester Station, Rochester, New York, United States
- ZTF: Stamford Transportation Center, Stamford, Connecticut, United States
- ZTJ: Princeton Junction station, Princeton Junction, New Jersey, United States
- ZTN: Trenton Transit Center, Trenton, New Jersey, United States
- ZTO: South Station, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- ZTY: Back Bay station, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- ZUA: Utica Union Station, Utica, New York, United States
- ZUF: Sion railway station (Switzerland), Sion, Switzerland
- ZUG: Harrisburg Transportation Center, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States
- ZUN: Chicago Union Station, Chicago, Illinois, United States
- ZVE: Union Station, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
- ZVM: Hannover Messe/Laatzen station, Laatzen, Germany
- ZVR: Hannover Hauptbahnhof, Hanover, Germany
- ZWB: Williamsburg Transportation Center, Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
- ZWC: Stavanger Station, Stavanger, Norway
- ZWE: Antwerpen-Centraal railway station, Belgium
- ZWI: Wilmington station, Wilmington, Delaware, United States
- ZWP: West Palm Beach station, West Palm Beach, Florida, United States
- ZWS: Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof, Stuttgart, Germany
- ZWU: Washington Union Station, Washington, D.C., United States
- ZWW: Newport News station, Newport News, Virginia, United States
- ZXA: Aberdeen railway station, Scotland, United Kingdom
- ZXE: Edinburgh Waverley railway station, Scotland, United Kingdom
- ZXS: Buffalo–Exchange Street station, Buffalo, New York, United States
- ZYA: Amsterdam Centraal station, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- ZYH: Den Haag Centraal railway station, The Hague, The Netherlands
- ZYN: Nîmes station, Nîmes, France
- ZYP: New York Penn Station, New York City, New York, United States
- ZYQ: William F. Walsh Regional Transportation Center, Syracuse, New York, United States
- ZYR: Brussels-South railway station, Brussels, Saint-Gilles, Belgium
- ZYZ: Antwerpen-Berchem railway station, Berchem, Belgium
See also
References
- "IATA Location Codes" (PDF). IATA. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- "IATA Numbers and Codes Explained". AltexSoft. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- "IATA Airline and Location Codes". IATA. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- "Airport codes Liverpool John Lennon in Liverpool, England, United Kingdom (GB)". AirportsBase.org. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
External links
- Free lookup by city of railway station codes at AirportsBase.org