What airports have a train or subway station that heads downtown?

[breadman]

I've flown into Chicago (ORD) and have used their 'blue line' to head downtown...fare's something like 1.75 one way. Newark (EWR) i've heard has a train running to New York city. Montreal and Toronto's subway/train systems each fail to run directly to their airports.

What other airports have easy access to their downtown counterpart that would allow one to check out a city during a layover?

 

[voyageur11]

Paris France is one

 

[Dragon]

london heathrow

London heathrow airport has multiple links to downtow

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Dragon

 

[Doc Holliday]

Montreal and Toronto's subway/train systems each fail to run directly to their airports.

I was under the impression that you could indeed take the train from the Airport (Dorval) into downtown. Isn't there a shuttle bus that runs between the nearby train station at Dorval to the terminal?

 

[gizmo]

Mexico city, indeed the airport is inside the city

 

[eastender]

Other Cities

I've flown into Chicago (ORD) and have used their 'blue line' to head downtown...fare's something like 1.75 one way. Newark (EWR) i've heard has a train running to New York city. Montreal and Toronto's subway/train systems each fail to run directly to their airports.

What other airports have easy access to their downtown counterpart that would allow one to check out a city during a layover?

Hartsfield in Atlanta. The Marta(subway) goes right into the airport and you can take the train downtown to Five Points and underground Atlanta.

 

[oobe]

I was under the impression that you could indeed take the train from the Airport (Dorval) into downtown. Isn't there a shuttle bus that runs between the nearby train station at Dorval to the terminal?

There is, but it's not as fast or convenient as what you find in other places, for instance the king of all airports Schipol in Amsterdam.

 

[hungry101]

Washington Regan

You can check out DC. Great Subway system

 

[Morris Wanchuk]

Madrid,Spain excellent cheap midtown subway connection

 

[sapman99]

Canada the holdout

If I remember correctly, it was about 20 years ago in the US that they started making airport rail links a priority. Thanks for all the city by city information so far.

I have travelled Belgium, Germany, Austria, Hungary and Romania by rail and there were rail links to many major airports all along that line.

Part of the Mirabel failure was the absence of just such a link. As far as Dorval, the passenger rail stop is located way out of the terminal area. Same thing at Pearson, but I believe they are building LRT there.

In Ottawa in the 1960's they tore up the railroad tracks going downtown and condemned beautiful Union Station, and relocated the passenger station in suburbia, but NOT at the airport . Dumb enough to move it away from downtown, dumber still how they did it.

Way to go Canada.

 

[CaptRenault]

Berlin airport train

Vienna airport train

What's even better about Berlin and Vienna is that you can also take a train to get to the best FKK clubs in those cities.

Artemis (Berlin)

Goldentime (Vienna)

 

[smuler]

http://www.urbanrail.net/index.html


Best Regards

Smuler

 

[freezin]

Amsterdam
Boston ( T)
Chicago (L)
Washington DC (Metro)
Minneapolis (light Rail)
San Franciso (BART)
Rome, Italy
Malaga, Spain
Moscow
Sydney

 

[CS Martin]

Can anyone give me info on Philly? From airport to B. Franklin Parkway. Ease of use and safety? Available in evenings? Thanks.

 

[MarathonMan]

Brussels (zaventem- north station brussels (right in the middle of the red light district!))
Amsterdam (schipol-amsterdam)
Paris (Charles de Gaule/Roisy- Paris)

 

[NJDude]

Can anyone give me info on Philly? From airport to B. Franklin Parkway. Ease of use and safety? Available in evenings? Thanks.

You can take R1 train from the airport and get down at Suburban Station. It is about 25 minutes ride. Get off at the stairway located next to the Macdonalds and it will be a 5 -15 minute walk depending on where you want to go on the Parkway. The train runs every half hour and you can check the schedule at Septa.org.

 

[CS Martin]

You can take R1 train from the airport and get down at Suburban Station. It is about 25 minutes ride. Get off at the stairway located next to the Macdonalds and it will be a 5 -15 minute walk depending on where you want to go on the Parkway. The train runs every half hour and you can check the schedule at Septa.org.

Great info, is it relatively safe at night? Better to take a cab? Thanks for the help.

 

[johnmbot]

at hkg use the airport express.

 

[daydreamer41]

I've flown into Chicago (ORD) and have used their 'blue line' to head downtown...fare's something like 1.75 one way. Newark (EWR) i've heard has a train running to New York city. Montreal and Toronto's subway/train systems each fail to run directly to their airports.

What other airports have easy access to their downtown counterpart that would allow one to check out a city during a layover?

JFK to midtown NYC.

 

[metoo4]

Newark connect to the NY train system directly via the airport monorail system.