Track end shoe

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  • Sketch for a track shoe

  • Photo of an end shoe in the engine shed

Track end shoes are permanent endings on railway tracks that are used where buffer stops are not an option or are not necessary. This is e.g. This is the case, for example, with butt tracks on turntables and transfer platforms as well as with tracks that end in the locomotive shed .

The track end shoe is a metal plate attached upright at the end of the rail (on both rails of a track), the upper edge of which is grooved to enable the train wheel to run up.

Track end shoes may protrude from the upper edge of the rails by a maximum of 55 mm so that the clearing machines cannot be damaged by locomotives. A height of 130 mm is permitted if only wagons are to be parked on the respective track.

Instead of the track end shoes, double wheel chocks can temporarily be used on tracks that are only used to park wagons .

source

  • Order on the construction and operation of connecting railways, GDR Law Gazette, special edition 1080