Track termination

Braced thresholds

Track termination in St. Pölten station

Track end at Vienna Hütteldorf train station with a scissor brake

Track closure is the generic term for various devices anchored with track systems or in the superstructure or substructure, which are intended to prevent rail vehicles from rolling over the end of a butt track . Temporary track closures such as cross-sleepers and clamped-on sleepers are primarily installed in the course of track construction work in front of impassable areas or as an impact protection in front of vehicles parked for a long time.

A track termination can be:

• Buffer stop made of steel and reinforced concrete in various designs, also with a braking function
• Track end shoe mainly in hall tracks (locomotive sheds etc.)
• Mound of earth
• Front or head ramp
• Threshold cross
• or with clamped thresholds

be executed.

literature

• Railway Lexicon, VEB Transpress 1978

Web links

• Technical information from Thyssen Krupp
• Track construction blog by Olaf Mensch
• Image gallery on the topic of track terminations
• History of the track terminations. Retrieved May 31, 2016 .