The joint station is expected to cost less and reach orbit faster than the current design.
A new joint station was opened at Plymouth North Road on 28 March 1877.
Magdeburg's walls prevented a joint station being built.
Numerous Union stations in the United States are joint stations.
The M&MR continued to pay for the cost of the joint station at Llanidloes, that it could not reach.
As the negotiations and financing of the joint station had taken so long, they arrived at an incomplete facility.
Where only one railway company exists, there is no need for a "joint station".
However, before nationalisation many companies existed and sometimes they had "joint stations".
However instead the two companies build a new joint station which opened in 1884 although not fully completed until February 1886.
The M&MR continued to pay for the cost of the joint station they could not reach.