What does an inbound and outbound train mean?

Question

What does an inbound and outbound train mean?

Answer 1

An inbound train is where the train comes into the station.

An outbound train is where the train departs a station.

Answer 2

an inbound train means that the train is headed for its major destination. like if it is headed for Boston it is an inbound train. an outbound train is leaving its destination like if it is leaving Boston.

Answer 3

Every train is an inbound and outbound train.  Say you're in New York at the train depot and the tracks run west and east.  You are wanting to leave New York and go east.  The train has to come from the west, get to New York, then go east when you get on.  For everyone at the depot waiting on the train, they call the train, the "inbound" because it's on it's way there.  Now, for everyone getting on it when it gets there, that are going east, are now on the "outbound" train because it's leaving that location.

Answer 4

Inbound train: The train is arriving.

Outbound Train: The train is leaving

Answer 5

inbound-coming into a city.

outbound-heading out of a city.

Answer 6

Well, if you're going into Boston, you would take the inbound train. If you're going to the suburbs of Boston, you would take the outbound.

Answer 7

It's just like it sounds, ones coming in to a yard or location. Being the in-bound. And the other is leaving the yard or location. Being the out-bound. Usually the train after arriving in a rail freight yard is switched and re-classed for destinations farther down the line. There is usually a crew change an away the outbound goes.

Answer 8

Inbound means it is coming in to the station.  Outbound means it is going out of the station to its final destination.

Answer 9

If its fright.....................inbound means its comeing into a yard............outbound means its moving away from the yard headed to wherever..................passenger trains is the same thing but with stations.

hope this helps

Answer 10

The inbound, is where it is coming from..   The outbound is where it is going..

Answer 11

Inbound is the train due to arrive; outbound is the one due to leave...

Answer 12

Of course, a train is always both inbound and outbound - it all depends on the observer's viewpoint. Blackville and Whiteville are linked by a rail service. A train leaves Blackville - outbound for Whiteville, but as it arrives there to someone on that station it is the inbound service from Blackville - and vice versa.

Answer 13

Inbound trains terminate.

Outbound trains originate.

Through trains just keep a'goin', until they become an inbound.

Answer 14

Inbound and outbound are used with a common point of reference to indicate opposite directions on a rail line.  In a typical urban rail line, inbound means heading in, i.e., towards the center point of the system (downtown).  Outbound means it is leaving the center for the far end of the line.