Connecting track
A connecting railway , possibly the simplest form of a bypass railway , is a railway line that is used to connect stations of the same railway administration or different administrations with one another or to bypass stations.
In contrast to a connecting curve , which is often short and only serves to connect routes , a connecting track can be longer and in turn have train stations or stops.
Connecting lines are often found at terminal stations with several incoming railway lines. These connecting routes allow freight trains and possibly direct trains to pass from one line to the other without a hairpin in the terminus. Shunting yards and freight facilities are often connected to these connecting lines .
Where there are several train stations in a large city, a connecting train is often used to connect the train stations for goods and passenger traffic .
The inner-city tunnels of the S-Bahns in Frankfurt ( S-Bahn Rhein-Main ), Munich and Stuttgart , which were built as an extension of a terminus station, were also designated with the term connecting railway, abbreviated V-Bahn , which was designed in the 1960s .
Well-known connecting railways:
- in Germany
- Berlin connecting railway
- Baumschulenweg – Neukölln connection railway
- Municipal connection line Frankfurt am Main
- Connecting line in Frankfurt of the Rhein-Main S-Bahn
- Hamburg-Altona connecting railway
- Connecting line of the Munich S-Bahn , today's main line
- Connection train of the Stuttgart S-Bahn
- Neumark – Greiz railway line
- in Austria
- in Switzerland
- in Italy
- in Czech Republic
- in Namibia