siding
A siding is a track - often a butt track - for accommodating rail vehicles that are not needed.
purpose
This can range from a parking time of a few hours up to the permanent parking of decommissioned vehicles . Sometimes this also includes tracks for train formation , often parked passenger trains are also cleaned or preheated here. Sidings are not train on the station uses addition and are therefore considered sidings .
Platform tracks on which trains are parked for boarding and alighting, loading tracks for loading and unloading, as well as sidings and passing tracks on which one train waits for another are not considered to be siding .
If the stump track is not only used for parking, but also for turning the trains, i.e. turning them to return on the other track of a double-track line, this track is also referred to as the sweeping track .
Figurative sense
The metaphor “to be sidelined” is often used to describe the fact that people are permanently ousted or excluded from working life or their sphere of activity. “Standing on the sidelines” means that someone is in a position with no effect.
literature
- Röll, Freiherr von: Encyclopedia of the Railway System . Berlin, Vienna 1912, p. 76
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ DB AG Group Directive 910
- ↑ DB AG Group Directive 601
- ↑ Query in Leipzig vocabulary for "siding" on April 4, 2008, most frequent right neighbor: "pushed"
- ^ Knaur: The German Dictionary , Munich 1985, page 106