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Froastpoarte Station
Froastpoarte is a bi-level overground station with 4 platforms, serving Lilac Light Rail lines 633 and 633P, as well as Moszyan Railways' overground service system. It was rebuilt to look like Lansingerland-Zoetermeer station, but with the light and heavy rail platforms swapped. Prior to its reconstruction, it was a generic Lilac Light Rail station by the name of Shuangmen Xuegui using the “Taipa & South Corridor” station design.
Layout
The station has 4 platforms, two north-south through tracks for the Lilac Light Rail on the lower level, and two east-west platforms for Moszyan Railways on the upper level. Unlike the rest of the Fryske Line, these upper platforms have grass for a ballast, referencing the real life station's upper platforms originally being light rail platforms.
The original upper terminus platforms were later extended in the Kallosaansluiting project.
Trivia
- Despite the rename to Froastpoarte, the original Chinese name Shuangmen Xuegui remains the CJK notation for the station.
- The name Shuangmen Xuegui is a pun on having the same pronunciation as the term for a double-door refridgerator, and the name Froastpoarte was chosen to retain at least the spirit of the pun, translating the first two characters to Frisian.
- This station was the first station on the server to have both Dutch and Japanese stop markers installed on the platforms.