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hexagon789
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A section of track linking two otherwise unconnected lines.
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Normally spelled cord, isn't it? A chord something to do with music?
You may also see it called a loop or curve or something. But would be a curved section of track linking two sections of lines together z that would otherwise be 90 degrees or so apart
You may also see it called a loop or curve or something. But would be a curved section of track linking two sections of lines together z that would otherwise be 90 degrees or so apart
No, it's chord. In geometry a chord is a line joining two points on a curve. A cord is a length of rope.
See Ordsall Chord, for example.
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If you say so! I'm getting a bit rusty in my old age
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A chord is a short section of track connecting two railway lines. Usually otherwise unconnected, but there are exceptions
An example, local to me, the slightly confusingly named 'Bacon Factory Curve' chord which connects the Great Eastern Mainline and East Suffolk
That allows trains coming from up north on the GEML or even ECML to access the docks at Felixstowe without having to enter Ipswich S.S or Ipswich Station and run their locomotive around.
It's almost exclusively for freight, the only passenger working I know of using it was the The 4 Triangles Railtour on the 9th of May 2015
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