Portal:Trains/Featured picture/Week 02, 2006

Double slip switches at Munich's Central station

A railroad switch (known in British and Australian English as a set of points or, in technical usage, a turnout) is a mechanical installation provided at a point where a rail track divides into two tracks. A double slip, is a crossing of railroads at a small angle, with the possibility of vehicles being made to pass from one route to the other.

Recently featured: King's Cross station - Snowdon Mountain Railway - Sacramento Regional Transit District