On the tube how do the trains turn around when it's the last stop?

Question

London underground: like they can't go back on the same line so how do they turn round, or get to the otherside?

Answer 1

Drivers controles each end. !

Answer 2

Often the train is fitted with an engine at the front of the train and one at the rear. So when they reach the end of the line the drive simply walks to the rear of the train.

When this is not possible the train companies can use a train turn table, this allows the train engine to be turned through 180 degrees and then re-attached to the other end of the train.

Ja.

Answer 3

Everyone is of course correct, Drivers cabs at at both ends. The crucial bit is "points" are used to move the train from the "in" track to the "out" track.

Answer 4

They have engines at both ends the driver just goes to other end of train.

Answer 5

Drivers can sit at either end.

They basically get out of their driving seat, wlak to the other end and drove off what is effectively backwards.  There is no fron or back of a train, it goes either way

EDIT: At the end of the line, it goes backwards but the signals makes it move to the other track.  Trains, like cars, always travel on the left.  It just switches track as soon as it leaves the station

EDIT: Oh God its you!!  You are that pathetic person constantly asking tedious questions - there was me thinking this was a 6 year old!  I thought you blocked me so I couldn't see your questions.

Please block me again as I can;t stand your tedious questions.

Answer 6

dont they pull into a siding and use points to change tracks?  same as any other railway

Answer 7

They drive the train from back end and front end of carriage. So it does not need to turn around.

Answer 8

With GREAT difficulty and a lot of 'Caution.'

Sash.

Answer 9

they have a carrage at either end that has controls in them!!!!

Answer 10

They probably use sidings which they pull into and then the driver gets out and goes to the end of the train which then becomes the front of the train.

Answer 11

it doesnt? trains have a drivers bit at both ends and can travel "backwards"

Answer 12

Why are you "SHOUTING"?

All Tube trains are double ended. At the end of the line the driver goes to the other end of the train and drives forward.

The trains cross over to the other line (all Underground 'Tube' lines are double track for most of their length) so there is no conflict with oncoming trains. If there is a section of single track at the end of the line then 'incoming' trains wait until the 'returning' train clears it. These single track sections are rare and not long.



The London Underground trains all pass on the left just like mainline trains and road vehicles.

Answer 13

Theres a giant in the tunnel at the end of each line, he picks up the train and turns it around.  He gets to eat all the people that fall asleep on the trains and miss their stops.

Answer 14

The hamburg picture is similar to how it's done in London.

NB one alternative is to do what the Tyne & Wear Metro do with the South Shields branch, have the last station on a single track section of line and the switch between up & down lines at the next station along.

Answer 15

it is as pinky suggests, there is a drivers cab at each end.

did you know most of the underground in London isn't actually underground, only 45% is

Answer 16

They dont, the signalman will place them into the terminus platform they will then start back from there and cross over to the down line. Happens so many times a day, quite safe and easy and has been happening since trains began to run.

Answer 17

Right before (or sometimes after) the last platform, there's a structure like this

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that lets trains cross over from one track to another.  Look close for it as you're coming into the last station.

The operator changes ends, and waits for a dispatcher to power-throw the switches in the crossover.  At that point he gets a signal that says he can proceed.  That's how he gets back to the correct side.

Sometimes they crossover before they come into the station, sometimes after they leave.

Answer 18

It depends on the terminus concerned.

At most stations, the drivers walk to the other end of the train, because there is a driving cab at each end.

There are four exceptions to this rule.

At Kennington on the Northern Line, there is a terminal loop passing beneath the through running lines to/from Morden

At Heathrow on the Piccadilly Line, when the system is fully operational, all trains will follow a uni-directional loop : Hatton Cross - Heathrow Terminal 4 - Heathrow Terminals 1, 2, 3 - Hatton Cross.

The Circle Line has no turning movements, but driver reliefs are usually taken at Aldgate (where any excess layover is also taken). Some driver reliefs (especially on a Sunday) are taken a Edgware Road.

Although Hainault on the Central Line is actually a terminus from both directions (and, hence, the drivers change ends), there are certain trains that operate "through" Hainault without the driver changing ends.

Answer 19

I know in Chicago towards the last stop, the trains switch tracks....like the tracks make an X. so an incoming train will end up on the outgoing train's tracks at the last stop after that train has left

Answer 20

The driver goes to the back of the train which now becomes the front of the train and what was the front of the train is now the back of the train, ok.

Answer 21

When a train gets to the end of the track, they dismantle the whole thing, transport it back to the beginning of the track at the other end and rebuild it. Sometimes they put propper wheels on it and make temporary bendy busses out of them

Answer 22

they dont turn around each end can be used as a front car for driving so basically when a there no more track the back becomes the front

Answer 23

By the use of a system known as points. They don't crash into a train coming in the other direction as they are switched to the other track.  Go to a surface station like Edgware on the Northern Line and watch how the trains come in on one line, the driver walks to the other end, then when they leave they are switched to the London bound track. The same thing happens underground, where applicable (apart form the Kennington Loop, already mentioned) but you just don't see it. The other alternative is that there are 'turn back sidings' in a middle tunnel (there is on a Liverpool Street on the Central) The train terminates, the doors close, the driver drives it into the siding, walks through the train to the other cab and when he is ready to depart the points change directing his train on to the correct track

Answer 24

There is a Cab at each end, the driver walks to the other end, and drives off.

There are two track arangements, Cross overs (a short X shaped junction between the running tracks to switch trains back to the correct line are used at the end of routes.

This can be seen at Ealing Broadway, Stratford, Richmond, Wimbledon amongst others (These stations are above ground so the workings are visable)

In other places where Trains (either Underground or National Rail) continue there is a siding known as a Headshunt between the running tracks, this is used to keep the terminating train out of the way of through trains. The driver walks through the train to the other cab and is switched back to the correct route

This can be seen at Wembley Park, Amersham, Ranyers Lane, Harrow and Wealdstone amongst others (again above ground examples are used)

Answer 25

It's a bit like above ground when an 8 coach train splits into 4 and they both go the same way at first but small parts of the line move to the other track and they can move back. This makes the train switch.

When underground the train terminates at the last station the driver walks to the other end. Then the small parts of the track move the train onto another line that goes back the other way. It is all done before the next train gts to the staition.

Happy to help, email me if you understood =).

Answer 26

Imagine that the track is a fork. The train drives up a prong onto the handle, then the driver swaps ends and drives down a different prong.