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An arrangement of tracks where rolling stock is switched to and from trains, freight is loaded or unloaded, and consists made up. [ 261][ 31] Yellow. A color associated with a warning or a need to slow down when used by flags or signals, but the exact meaning varies from railway to railway. Yoke.
Railway shunting capstan found at site of former Hull and Barnsley Railway sidings south of Springhead works. A heavy steam shunting locomotive, SR Z class, Great Britain. Shunting, in railway operations, is the process of sorting items of rolling stock into complete trains, or the reverse. In the United States this activity is known as switching .
Headshunt. Platform track and run-round loop at Toyooka Station, Hyōgo, Japan, the terminus of the line from Miyazu. A headshunt (or escape track in the United States) is a short length of track provided to release locomotives at terminal platforms, or to allow shunting to take place clear of main lines.
This railway was of 1' 11½" gauge and was taken over on 13 April 1883. It was later converted to standard gauge as the extension of the new Bala & Festiniog Railway after purchase by the Great Western Railway . Two locomotives were taken over, both being built by Manning Wardle . 1 Manning Wardle Wks No 259, 0-4-2ST, built 1868.
A classification yard ( American English, as well as the Canadian National Railway ), marshalling yard ( British, Hong Kong, Indian, and Australian English, as well as the Canadian Pacific Railway) or shunting yard (Central Europe) is a railway yard found at some freight train stations, used to separate railway cars onto one of several tracks.
Train shunting puzzles, also often called railway shunting puzzles or railroad switching puzzles, are a type of puzzle. Shunting puzzles usually consist of a specific track layout, a set of initial conditions (typically the starting place of each item of rolling stock ), a defined goal (the finishing place of each rolling stock item), and rules ...
Inglenook Sidings, created by Alan Wright (1928 - January 2005), is a model railway train shunting puzzle. It consists of a specific track layout, a set of initial conditions, a defined goal, and rules which must be obeyed while performing the shunting operations. More broadly, in model railway usage inglenook may refer to a track layout (or ...
Timesaver is a well-known [ 1] model railroad switching puzzle (U.K. English: shunting puzzle) created by John Allen. [ 2] It consists of a specific track layout, a set of initial conditions, a defined goal, and rules which must be obeyed while performing the shunting operations. The standard layout consists of a simple yard, with five switches ...