Afløbsspor
Et afløbsspor er et kort spor, som ender i en sporstopper eller anden forhindring f.eks. en sandbunke eller ingenting. Afløbsspor etableres f.eks. i tilknytning til et hovedspor ved hjælp af et sporskifte. Når sporskiftet er stillet mod afløbssporet, beskytter det mod utilsigtede sammenstød mellem tog- og rangermateriel. Hvis der er risiko for et sammenstød, bliver den ene togstamme ledt ud på afløbssporet, sådan at hovedsporet dermed holdes frit.
Afløbsspor bruges også til at opfange løse vogne, typisk under rangering, men kan også benyttes til opbremsning af tog, der har for høj fart til at kunne standses i tide.
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Forfatter/Opretter: S. Terfloth User:Sese_Ingolstadt, Licens: CC BY-SA 2.5
A trap point at the train station of Allersberg, Nuremberg-Munich high-speed railway line. This is a safety device that would lead a train to the buffer at the right, in the unlikely event that the engineer passes by the red signal before the switch. Such trap point railway switches are obligatory for high-speed railway lines (v_max > 160 km/h) in Germany.
Forfatter/Opretter: S. Terfloth User:Sese_Ingolstadt, Licens: CC BY-SA 2.5
A trap point at the train station of Allersberg, Nuremberg-Munich high-speed railway line. This is a safety device that would lead a train to the buffer at the right, in the unlikely event that the engineer passes by the red signal before the switch. Such trap point railway switches are obligatory for high-speed railway lines (v_max > 160 km/h) in Germany.