A balloon loop, turning loop, or reversing loop (North American Terminology) allows a rail vehicle or train to reverse direction without having to shunt...

for turning railway equipment, and generally cover less area than a balloon loop doing the same job, but at the cost of two additional sets of points...

for passenger service. The lower-level balloon loop, whose curve was much sharper than that of the upper-level loop and could only handle electric multiple...

up loop in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Loop or LOOP may refer to: Loop (mobile), a Bulgarian virtual network operator and co-founder of Loop Live...

Independence in 1947. Chowrasta Balloon loop History of Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Zig zag (railway) "Batasia Loop Darjeeling". darjeeling-tourism.com...

Trains in service turn onto a balloon loop, continuing past the abandoned side platform on the west side of the loop, and returning to the Brooklyn Bridge...

serving the below-grade Red Line and a single side platform on an elevated balloon loop for the Mattapan Line. The station is fully accessible for all modes...

own dedicated single-track tunnel, with trains running on balloon loops around the CBD. The Loop follows La Trobe and Spring Streets along the northern and...

sides. Merry-go-round trains are associated with the construction of balloon loops at the origin and destination so that the train doesn't waste time shunting...

iron ore mine at Marampa. It is proposed to introduce a more efficient balloon loop at the port. An extension of this line to a deeper port at Tagrin Point...

This line commenced at the Spit Bridge (north side) with a balloon loop. From the balloon loop, in a reservation, the line ascended in a Right of way beside...

Brattle Loop, as did cars from Lynn and Boston Railroad and its successors. The last of those, the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway, used the loop until...

system. It has a single wedge-shaped island platform located inside a balloon loop. Bowdoin is the only Blue Line station that is not accessible. Bowdoin...

a unidirectional loop at one end. One end of lines 2 and 5 each and both ends of line 6 have their terminus station on a balloon loop. One end of lines...

service that reverses at the Edinburgh end, and has a large bi-directional balloon loop at the Fife end. The service includes the Edinburgh-Dunfermline stretch...

operated by single-ended trams, it has balloon loops at nearly all termini. There are currently 24 balloon loops in Kraków. A double track wye was located...

on 65 kilometers (40 mi) of route. There are two depots and twelve balloon loops (including five street ones). Daytime lines (night lines were abolished...

service to the loop resumed on December 26, 1964; for a period in 1966, every other train on Huntington Avenue short-turned at the loop. Heath Street was...

Brownsville and West Brownsville share an important railway bridge, creating a balloon loop that allows the turning of complete coal trains. The limited-access toll...

Some layouts, such as a balloon loop, also create problems for two-rail, as they connect the opposing rails together around the loop and could require isolation...

similar route to the former Abattoirs branch. The line was built with a balloon loop and the two track, four platform Olympic Park station. The line utilised...

1904 December 31, 1945 South of Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall on a curved balloon loop. Closed due to low ridership, short platform length and the proximity...

and Po Tin Estate. This stop is the terminus of Route 507, and has a balloon loop for trains on that line. "Tin King Stop & Kin Sang Stop" (PDF). MTR Corporation...

2018 as WTC Cortlandt. The original South Ferry station, a five-car balloon loop, was also replaced with a two-track terminal in 2009; the new South Ferry...

Track ballast Track transition curve Balloon loop Classification yard Gauntlet track Junction Overhead lines Passing loop Rail track Rail yard Railroad switch...

A passing loop (UK usage) or passing siding (North America) (also called a crossing loop, crossing place, refuge loop or, colloquially, a hole) is a place...

stations. In 1905, the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) opened a balloon loop at South Ferry, serving the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue and IRT Lexington...

2001. The station remains distinctive for its unique (to New Zealand) balloon loop track arrangement, which allows trains from Hawke's Bay direct access...

comparison, short turn tram or streetcar services may have to use a balloon loop, limiting the locations for short turns. Rail services such as rapid...

southern end of the line before Railway Street. A line to a coal loading balloon loop at Ebenezer was opened in 1990, junctioning from the Main Line west of...