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Re: Switches vs. Turnouts
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 9 Feb 1999 14:53:54 GMT
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> > I have a new topic...
> > Is it points, switch tracks, or turn-out...???
In the UK, I always understood them to be called points, because that's what
they were called in model railway catalogues and is what they were called in
common usage. However someone recently told me that actually the name is
different depending on whether the points are on a mainline or not. First I'd
heard of that.
> > Is it a siding, a passing track, or a spur...???
In the UK a siding runs parallel to the main track but doesn't necessarily
join it again, if it does it's called a passing siding. A spur, like Larry
said, runs off in another direction for a short distance.
What I have trouble with naming is various types of crossovers....
1. What do you call a track that allows you to cross from one side of a
mainline over to the other?
2. What do you call it when a track crosses another track, either at right
angles or some other angle?
3. What do you call the crossover part when a two track mainline has a two
track branch off it?
Matt
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Switches vs. Turnouts
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| (...) Crossover. This typically will mark the beginning or end of a block in CTC territory. It typically did not require an interlocking tower. (...) A crossing. There is no implication of connection from one track to the other. However, since the (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Switches vs. Turnouts
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| (...) Most of the times on the railroad that I work for (Norfolk Southern), if one is referring to the points of a switch, we call them points, as in to make sure there is nothing fouling the points before throwing a switch, i.e. something that fell (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Switches vs. Turnouts (was Re: APOLOGY
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| (...) Not really. Let me clarify my position. I don't feel it's appropriate to suppress information sharing, and I don't think the originator of a thread has some sort of exclusive say about what is on or off topic. I'm not sure I care to comment (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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