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A typical use for a stub-end passenger station would be as follows: A wye was incorporated at the "throat" where the rows of tracks converged from the station to facilitate the turning of trains. An arriving train came to a stop on the main line after passing the wye. Once the switches on the wye are
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in 1837. The triangle has two passenger platform faces on each of its three sides and five of the six platforms are in frequent (half-hourly, etc.) use by passenger trains. When steam engines were in regular use the triangle (which is of course also traversed by freight trains) was also used to turn
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The land within a triangle is cut off from the adjacent area (and normally fenced off) and has marginal commercial value, so will be purposed mainly for the railway's exclusive use – generally being used for maintenance depots, storage, or vehicle parking. On electrified lines substations tend to be
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Meanwhile, the locomotives could be uncoupled from the train and sent to the engine terminal to be serviced for their next assignment. Then, the head-end cars could be uncoupled from the rest of the train and spotted by a station switcher at the parcel facility where mail and express packages were
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in Sydney lies on one corner of a triangular junction, which allows trains to branch off in either direction without the need to terminate or change ends. One train a day from
Birrong to Sefton does terminate and reverse at Regents Park station (in order to clean the rust off the crossover rails).
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Barkston Junction to traverse the
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can turn trains of any length — up to the total length of the loop — in a single operation, but require far more space than wyes. Rail wyes can be constructed on sites where a loop would not be possible, and can turn trains up to the length of the stub tracks at the end of the wye.
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through successive junctions of the wye. The direction of travel and the relative orientation of a locomotive or railway vehicle thus can be reversed. Where a wye is built specifically for equipment reversing purposes, one or more of the tracks making up the junction will typically be a
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The train was announced for boarding with a list of destinations. With switches aligned, the train slowly departed to the main line, continuing on its journey or returning toward the direction from which it arrived by rounding the opposite leg from the one it reversed on upon arrival.
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handled. The departing train was reassembled, freshly cleaned and serviced for the next journey. A steam pipe from the station's steam generator could have been attached to the train's steam line from the rear to supply heat until the locomotives were coupled up front to supply steam.
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aligned, the train reversed, with the brakeman at the rear of the last car regulating the speed with the brake lever upon approach to the platform. After coming to a complete stop at the end of the track, passengers were allowed to disembark safely.
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A triangle may have a situational disadvantage in train operations when space constraints of the local geography cause one leg of triangle to bypass a main station. In tight city environments, this can happen easily, as it did, for example, at
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The use of triangular junctions allows flexibility in routing trains from any line to either of the two other paths, without the need to reverse the train. For this reason they are common across most rail networks. A slower train may be
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attached was turned before starting out south on its record-breaking run on 3 July 1938). The journey to
Barkston Junction and back was a time-consuming business involving a round trip of some 8 miles (13 km) along the busy
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in large cities had wye tracks to allow the turning and backing of directional passenger trains onto a main line. Freight traffic could bypass the terminal through the wye. Notable examples include the
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for turning locomotives. This uses a pentagram layout, requiring four movements and five turnouts to reverse. It allows a smaller layout, without excessively tight curve radii, compared to a triangle.
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termini of its line. The train is turned around at the South Rim/Grand Canyon
Village wye with the passengers on board. At the Williams end, the train is turned around after the passengers disembark.
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There was a "star" layout at the summit of the
Brenner Pass, on the Austrian–Italian border. It was still there in 1991, covered over with gravel so that market-stalls could function on top.
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doing the same job, but at the cost of two additional sets of points to construct and then maintain. These turnings are accomplished by performing the railway equivalent of a
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904:East Coast Main Line
517:diesel multiple unit
330:rope-hauled inclines
229:electric locomotives
90:is a specific case.
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2954:Interchange station
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2826:Classification yard
2344:Classification yard
2080:Kay, Peter (1997).
2062:on 15 December 2011
1827:Wyeville, Wisconsin
1312:Gateway Subdivision
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532:Downpatrick station
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2194:DigitalGlobe
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2120:Google Maps
2066:23 December
2010:Control car
1846:Oakland Wye
775:Grindelwald
749:Switzerland
636:South Tyrol
632:Val Venosta
608: [
543:Greenisland
513:NI Railways
483:County Mayo
240:the route.
195:Circle Line
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2664:Water stop
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1189:SR 70
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280:Land usage
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1963:pentagram
868:turntable
586:The Point
539:Monkstown
471:Lavistown
427:Melbourne
383:turntable
358:Australia
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294:Australia
177:and some
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1983:See also
1967:turnouts
1888:Williams
1858:East Bay
1191: /
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960:trestles
887:SK914349
879:Grantham
872:Holyhead
860:Anglesey
847:SH294789
834:ST316887
822:Hereford
795:Grantham
743:Windhoek
665:Carbonia
653:Carbonia
620:Sardinia
616:Carbonia
578:Connolly
563:Adelaide
515:are all
475:Kilkenny
451:Victoria
447:Portland
445:line in
437:in 1937.
423:Ballarat
346:ST316887
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2690:Private
2637:Station
2313:Profile
2263:Ballast
1953:Italian
1880:Arizona
1873:Florida
1869:Sanford
1792:Portola
897:with a
894:Mallard
814:Swansea
806:Newport
802:Maindee
761:in the
731:Namibia
722:Namibia
712:Brenner
634:in the
622:and at
574:Busáras
557:on the
526:on the
497:Belfast
473:, near
461:In the
457:Ireland
419:Geelong
406:trains.
390:Wodonga
312:on the
183:consist
82:with a
2987:Spiral
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2457:Switch
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1004:Legend
856:Valley
739:Angola
735:Tsumeb
410:Ararat
290:Sydney
263:Tecuci
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2673:Types
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