Keilbahnhof

Keilbahnhof (plural: Keilbahnhöfe, literally: "wedge station") is the German word for a station located between branching tracks.[1] There appears to be no direct English equivalent for this term, which appears in the route diagrams of German railway lines. In a keilbahnhof, the platforms curve in opposite directions so that they are parallel at one end of the station & not at the other.

Keilbahnhof in Figeac, department of Lot

Definitions

Diagram of a Keilbahnhof

A Keilbahnhof is a type of junction station whose tracks usually diverged before passing the platforms, the station building being located between the tracks.[2] The through tracks thus pass by on either side without rejoining one another again, in contrast to an island station, in which the tracks merge again after passing either side of the station building. There are also Keilbahnhof stations whose through tracks diverge in the area of the platforms, but never after them. The y-shaped Keilbahnhof is not suited for splitting trains into separate rakes with different destinations.[3]

Examples in Germany

Elsterwerda-Biehla station

Examples elsewhere

Switzerland

United Kingdom

United States

References

  1. Ernst, Dr.-Ing. Richard (1989). Wörterbuch der Industriellen Technik (5th ed.). Wiesbaden: Oscar Brandstetter, 1989. ISBN 3-87097-145-2.
  2. Lexikon der Eisenbahn (in German) (5. ed.), Berlin: Transpress VEB Verlag, 1978, pp. 732–733, Stichwort Trennungsbahnhof
  3. Yves Marclay (March 2018), "Halbstundentakt auf der Strecke Martigny – Le Châble / Orsières", Schweizer Eisenbahn-Revue (in German), Minirex (3), pp. 162–164, ISSN 1022-7113
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