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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.
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 .
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 ...
A British signalling scheme designed to ensure the safe operation of a railway by allowing only one train to occupy a defined section of track (block) at a time, used on lines which lack automatic block signalling [ 1] Aspect. The indication displayed by a colour-light signal (e.g. a yellow aspect) Autocoach.
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.
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 ...
v. t. e. A rail yard, railway yard, railroad yard (US) or simply yard, is a series of tracks in a rail network for storing, sorting, or loading and unloading rail vehicles and locomotives. Yards have many tracks in parallel for keeping rolling stock or unused locomotives stored off the main line, so that they do not obstruct the flow of traffic.