platform loop
A short stretch of railway line at a railway station which leaves a through line to serve a platform, before rejoining the through line beyond the station.
Noun
- A short stretch of railway line at a railway station which leaves a through line to serve a platform, before rejoining the through line beyond the station.
- Sevenoaks, Tonbridge, Paddock Wood, Headcorn and Ashford stations have platform loops and there is a short four-track section between Cheriton and Folkestone Central. - 1962 August, G. M. Kichenside, “Resignalling for...