• Thumbnail for Headshunt
    A headshunt (or escape track in the United States) is a short length of track provided to release locomotives at terminal platforms, or to allow shunting...
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  • Thumbnail for Vatican Railway
    of the building. They are connected to the main track that ends in a headshunt in a straight tunnel under the hillside. The station is near the Vatican...
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  • 1987 Lowton Metals ceased trading, line cut back to Golborne Colliery headshunt 1987 Kelbit opened rail-served business at Edge Green, using trackbed...
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  • Thumbnail for Admiralteyskaya (Saint Petersburg Metro)
    headshunt Komendantsky Prospekt headshunt Staraya Derevnya Great Nevka Yelagin island Middle Nevka Krestovsky Ostrov Little Nevka Chkalovskaya Sportivnaya...
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  • Thumbnail for Melbourne tram route 82
    route 82 trams were extended to terminate at the main platforms with a headshunt built to the north. Unlike most other tram routes, route 82 does not operate...
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  • Thumbnail for Lomonosovskaya (Saint Petersburg Metro)
    line 1 Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskogo I headshunt Service siding to line 4 Yelizarovskaya Lomonosovskaya headshunt abandoned tunnels Proletarskaya Obukhovo...
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  • Thumbnail for Vasileostrovskaya
    line 1 Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskogo I headshunt Service siding to line 4 Yelizarovskaya Lomonosovskaya headshunt abandoned tunnels Proletarskaya Obukhovo...
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  • Thumbnail for Ulitsa Dybenko (Saint Petersburg Metro)
    headshunt Gorny Institut Teatralnaya headshunt Spasskaya Service siding to line 5 Dostoyevskaya Ligovsky Prospekt headshunt Service siding to line 3 Ploshchad...
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  • Thumbnail for Komendantsky Prospekt (Saint Petersburg Metro)
    headshunt Komendantsky Prospekt headshunt Staraya Derevnya Great Nevka Yelagin island Middle Nevka Krestovsky Ostrov Little Nevka Chkalovskaya Sportivnaya...
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  • Thumbnail for Mezhdunarodnaya (Saint Petersburg Metro)
    headshunt Komendantsky Prospekt headshunt Staraya Derevnya Great Nevka Yelagin island Middle Nevka Krestovsky Ostrov Little Nevka Chkalovskaya Sportivnaya...
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  • headshunt Gorny Institut Teatralnaya headshunt Spasskaya Service siding to line 5 Dostoyevskaya Ligovsky Prospekt headshunt Service siding to line 3 Ploshchad...
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  • Thumbnail for Sennaya Ploshchad (Saint Petersburg Metro)
    Ozerki maintenance point Udelnaya Pionerskaya Chyornaya Rechka Great Nevka headshunt Petrogradskaya Gorkovskaya Great Neva service siding to line 5 Nevsky...
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  • Thumbnail for Ozerki (Saint Petersburg Metro)
    Ozerki maintenance point Udelnaya Pionerskaya Chyornaya Rechka Great Nevka headshunt Petrogradskaya Gorkovskaya Great Neva service siding to line 5 Nevsky...
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  • Thumbnail for Kingsgrove railway station
    station, through lines were added on either side of the existing pair. A headshunt was provided to the west of the station in association with this project...
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  • Thumbnail for Ligovsky Prospekt (Saint Petersburg Metro)
    headshunt Gorny Institut Teatralnaya headshunt Spasskaya Service siding to line 5 Dostoyevskaya Ligovsky Prospekt headshunt Service siding to line 3 Ploshchad...
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  • Thumbnail for Novocherkasskaya (Saint Petersburg Metro)
    headshunt Gorny Institut Teatralnaya headshunt Spasskaya Service siding to line 5 Dostoyevskaya Ligovsky Prospekt headshunt Service siding to line 3 Ploshchad...
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  • Thumbnail for Tekhnologichesky Institut (Saint Petersburg Metro)
    Prospekt headshunt Akademicheskaya future line branching Politekhnicheskaya Ploschad Muzhestva eroded tunnels Lesnaya Vyborgskaya headshunts Ploshchad...
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  • Thumbnail for Battlefield Line Railway
    Humberstone Road station from Leicester. At the end of the line is a headshunt underneath an old cattle bridge. The small bridge was previously used...
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  • Thumbnail for Bukharestskaya (Saint Petersburg Metro)
    headshunt Komendantsky Prospekt headshunt Staraya Derevnya Great Nevka Yelagin island Middle Nevka Krestovsky Ostrov Little Nevka Chkalovskaya Sportivnaya...
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  • Thumbnail for Zenit (Saint Petersburg Metro)
    line 1 Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskogo I headshunt Service siding to line 4 Yelizarovskaya Lomonosovskaya headshunt abandoned tunnels Proletarskaya Obukhovo...
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  • Thumbnail for Primorskaya (Saint Petersburg Metro)
    line 1 Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskogo I headshunt Service siding to line 4 Yelizarovskaya Lomonosovskaya headshunt abandoned tunnels Proletarskaya Obukhovo...
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  • Thumbnail for Staraya Derevnya (Saint Petersburg Metro)
    headshunt Komendantsky Prospekt headshunt Staraya Derevnya Great Nevka Yelagin island Middle Nevka Krestovsky Ostrov Little Nevka Chkalovskaya Sportivnaya...
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  • Thumbnail for Aldermaston railway station
    Newbury-bound platform is flanked on its offside by a siding, formerly used as a headshunt for access to a nearby freight facility. Since the rebuilding of the A340...
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  • Thumbnail for Prospekt Bolshevikov (Saint Petersburg Metro)
    headshunt Gorny Institut Teatralnaya headshunt Spasskaya Service siding to line 5 Dostoyevskaya Ligovsky Prospekt headshunt Service siding to line 3 Ploshchad...
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  • Thumbnail for Yelizarovskaya (Saint Petersburg Metro)
    line 1 Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskogo I headshunt Service siding to line 4 Yelizarovskaya Lomonosovskaya headshunt abandoned tunnels Proletarskaya Obukhovo...
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  • Thumbnail for Liverpool Lime Street railway station
    units. There were also four non-passenger tracks. Three of these were headshunts, created in the northern trainshed to turn locomotives around: Track A...
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  • Thumbnail for Moskovskiye Vorota (Saint Petersburg Metro)
    Ozerki maintenance point Udelnaya Pionerskaya Chyornaya Rechka Great Nevka headshunt Petrogradskaya Gorkovskaya Great Neva service siding to line 5 Nevsky...
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  • Thumbnail for Docklands Light Railway
    direction in the platforms, except at Bank where there is a reversing headshunt in the tunnel beyond the station. During service disruption or planned...
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  • Thumbnail for Chkalovskaya (Saint Petersburg Metro)
    headshunt Komendantsky Prospekt headshunt Staraya Derevnya Great Nevka Yelagin island Middle Nevka Krestovsky Ostrov Little Nevka Chkalovskaya Sportivnaya...
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  • Thumbnail for Mayakovskaya (Saint Petersburg Metro)
    line 1 Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskogo I headshunt Service siding to line 4 Yelizarovskaya Lomonosovskaya headshunt abandoned tunnels Proletarskaya Obukhovo...
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