All different siding types

[SomeTrainboy]

I was wondering if anyone knew or knew where I could find all the different names for types of yards and sidings.
From the top of my head I can think of are reception, sorting, empty, marshalling, departure, recessing, holding and carriage.

 

[Peter Sarf]

Arrival siding/yard, loco (holding) siding, cripple siding, stabling siding/yard (thinking of multiple units), reversing siding maybe ?.

Hump shunting yard (historical).

 

[66701GBRF]

Headshunt

 

[sad1e]

Turnback siding is one

 

[Western 52]

Storage, engineers, weighbridge maybe?

 

[Dr Hoo]

Loads more. Plenty were named after the particular commodity handled, e.g. fish, milk, potato, coal and so on.
Exchange siding
Kip (for brake vans)
Warehouse
(End loading) Dock
Ballast
Crane
…

 

[saismee]

Headshunt

+ Shunt neck

 

[The Planner]

Through.

 

[LowLevel]

TC - Traffic Concentration, a large marshalling yard like Toton where trains could be dispatched local or further afield and remarshalled as required.

 

[30907]

Many sidings had local names too, and often labelled as "...road."

 

[MarkyT]

Mileage, refuge.

 

[Boilinthebag]

Tip sidings 1 and 2 exist at Didcot

 

[Harpo]

Lots of different names on depots, often by activity, wash, fuel, flushing, etc.. Even into the 80s Stratford had ‘steam’ roads.

 

[172007]

With the upgrades to Small Heath Aggregate / Caledonia sidings an new dead end line was created name as the "wash road" for some reason. I guess it may be a historical reason.

 

[Peter Sarf]

With the upgrades to Small Heath Aggregate / Caledonia sidings an new dead end line was created name as the "wash road" for some reason. I guess it may be a historical reason.

Maybe as in washing the aggregate - sea dredged aggregate has to have the salt washed out of it iirc.

 

[Dunfanaghy Rd]

+ Shunt neck

Shunt neck always. Never heard headshunt except in modelling and heritage circles.
Pat

 

[fb2126]

Fuelling point?

 

[Ashley Hill]

Short Spur
Spur
Apron
There are also many historic and local names known only to local staff such as sidings named after customers or staff.

 

[RailwayRookie]

"Back Road"

 

[sad1e]

Hot Box sidings at Kettering, although no idea the meaning behind the name.

Now long gone but I remember there used to be a Klondike siding near the old Wembley Stadium station (The one on the old loop line) that they would use to stable some 115's in-between the morning and evening peaks.

No idea if there are any Klondike sidings left around the network though.

 

[172007]

Maybe as in washing the aggregate - sea dredged aggregate has to have the salt washed out of it iirc.

Brand new siding, couplr of years old. Suspect it's supposed to be for wagons with deffects but calling it a cripple siding is no longer accetable as a new name. Unless there was a road there years ago for loading the cats etc in that had washroad name.

 

[Rescars]

Are there still scrap sidings?

 

[172007]

Are there still scrap sidings?

SIdings not in use none, all refurbed and exta added. Two aggregate unloading sidings which are often both dishcharging a train at the same time. One is regualr cobstruction traffic the other is HS2. Scrap sidings for scrap metal non, Tyseleys went decades ogo.

 

[sad1e]

Are there still scrap sidings?

If you mean scrap lines , yes

Look at the lineup of 60's rotting in the Toton Newbank sidings , that has to be the definition of a scrap siding.

 

[20200506]

Distillers Private Sidings in Harlesden
It's even got its own ELR
http://www.railwaycodes.org.uk/elrs/_mileages/b/bts4.shtm

 

[Annetts key]

I was wondering if anyone knew or knew where I could find all the different names for types of yards and sidings.
From the top of my head I can think of are reception, sorting, empty, marshalling, departure, recessing, holding and carriage.

In my wanderings, I have come across these:

• Neck
• Headshunt
• Engine release
• Hopper
• Departure
• Arrival or Arrivals
• Loop
• No. 1 line
• No. 2 line etc.
  or
• No. 3 siding etc.
  or
• Siding 1 etc.
• Loco
• Cripples
• Spares
• "name of" Depot sidings
• LPG terminal
• Refuse siding (as in for waste transfer)
• Carriage siding
• Carriage line
• Carriage washer siding or just Washer siding or line
• Goods siding
• Dock siding
• In Road
• Out Road
• A Road
• B Road etc.
• Fuel Road (used for refuelling diesel trains)
• Spur (if more than one, the name may be expanded)
• DMU siding
• HST siding
• Tip siding
• Tamper siding
• Wheel Lathe siding
• Down siding
• Up siding
• Water Column Road
• Crane Siding
• Middle siding (if more than one, the name may be expanded)

And some are just referred to by the name of the junction or ground frame that provides access to them.

 

[saismee]

No idea if there are any Klondike sidings left around the network though.

Waverley?

 

[Lloyds siding]

Loads more. Plenty were named after the particular commodity handled, e.g. fish, milk, potato, coal and so on.
Exchange siding
Kip (for brake vans)
Warehouse
(End loading) Dock
Ballast
Crane
…

Yes: manure siding (Freshfield)

 

[Harpo]

Hot Box sidings at Kettering, although no idea the meaning behind the name.

Hot box is a shortening of hot axle box, that’s usually high temperatures in the exterior end of the axle journal and its bearings on a wagon. Signallers used to notice visual indications but electronic detectors do the job for all vehicles nowadays and identify the location too.

The siding was presumably where anything running hot was knocked out of a consist (i.e. removed) for C&W attention (carriage and wagon).

 

[DarloRich]

No idea if there are any Klondike sidings left around the network though.

York.

Re hot box -where you would detach a vehicle with a hot axle box?