Single-vault station

Ploshchad Muzhestva station, Saint Petersburg Metro

168th Street station, New York City Subway

Titan metro station, Bucharest Metro

The single-vault deep underground station is a type of subway station.

Overview

The construction of a single-vault station consists of a single wide and high underground hall, in which there is only one vault (hence the name). The first single-vault stations in the USSR were built in Leningrad in 1975: Politekhnicheskaya and Ploshchad Muzhestva. Also in Saint Petersburg was built the first and so far the only two-level single-vault transfer station in Russia: Sportivnaya.

In the Moscow Metro there is only one deep underground single-vault station, Timiryazevskaya, in addition to several single-vault stations at shallow depth. In the Saint Petersburg Metro all single-vault stations are deep underground, for example Ozerki, Chornaya Rechka, Obukhovo, Chkalovskaya, and others. Most of the underground stations of the Bay Area Rapid Transit and the central stations of Washington D.C.'s Metro system are single-vault designs, as are all the single-line vaulted stations in the Montreal Metro. In Prague Metro, there is one underground station built as single-vault, Kobylisy.

See also

• Deep column station
• Pylon station
• Shallow column station