platform loop

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.

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Meanings

nounplatform loop (plural platform loops)

plural platform loops

  1. rail transportA 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 the Kent Coast electrification—Phase II”, in Modern Railways, page 110
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