Park and ride railway station

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A park and ride railway station is a station where you can park your car and then take the train.

Examples and notes:
- Noorderkempen railway station in Brecht opened in 2009 on the HSL 4 high-speed line. It mainly serves Antwerp and also Breda.
- In New Zealand, Auckland and Wellington have extensive electrified suburban networks.
- Many suburban stations have park and ride facilities.
- In England, several stations use the suffix “parkway” in their name, such as Bristol Parkway, Didcot Parkway, Brookwood, Fleet, Luton Airport Parkway, and Southampton Airport Parkway. The term comes from the idea of a park-and-ride and from nearby motorways. Bristol Parkway was the first such station, named in 1972 after The Parkway motorway route. These stations were built mainly in the late 20th century to ease congestion at city centres.
- Some parkways were renamed to promote car parking for rail travel (for example Didcot Parkway to encourage trips from cars to Oxford). Others serve smaller places with big car parks, where the parkway name may not be used.
- Airports with parkway stations include Luton Airport Parkway and Southampton Airport Parkway. Some are not within easy walking distance of the terminal; passengers may use a shuttle bus. Southampton Airport Parkway is within walking distance and has substantial parking for commuters.
- In the United States, many outer rail stations have large parking lots. In Boston, the MBTA offers about 46,000 park-and-ride spaces at stations around the city, such as Alewife, Braintree, Forest Hills, Hyde Park, Quincy Adams, Riverside, Route 128, Wellington, and Woburn.