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.

Examples in Germany:

• Berga-Kelbra station on the Halle-Kassel line
• Hagenow Land station on the Berlin-Hamburg Railway
• Niebüll station on the Marsh Railway
• Nordstemmen station on the North-South railway
• Wittenberge station, Brandenburg

References

1. ^ Ernst, Dr.-Ing. Richard (1989). Wörterbuch der Industriellen Technik (5th ed.). Wiesbaden: Oscar Brandstetter, 1989. ISBN 3-87097-145-2.