Passenger station for elevated railway system

In an elevated railway system comprising a beam structure, tracks extending longitudinally of the beam structure along both sides thereof, each track comprising a lower rail and an upper rail, and cars adapted to travel on the tracks, each having a door in its side toward the beam structure:

• a station comprising an elevator shaft structure extending up from the groun level generally in the vertical plane of the beam structure in a gap in the beam structure, said elevator shaft structure comprising two elevator shafts spaced longitudinally with respect to the route of the system, the gap in the beam structure being between first and second transition beam sections, the transition beam sections being effective to spread the upper and lower rails of each track, a track section extending alongside the transition beam sections on both sides thereof each comprising a lower rail and an upper rail in continuity with the lower and upper rails of the respective track on the beam structure, track sections extending alongside the elevator shaft structure on both sides thereof each comprising a lower rail and an upper rail in continuity with the lower and upper rails of the respective track on the first and second transition beam sections, the lower and upper rails of each said track section extending at the bottom and top of the door of a car stopped at the station for passenger ingress to and egress from an elevator shaft between the rails, and a passenger elevator movable up and down in each elevator shaft section for carrying passengers from ground level up to a car door and back.