What is the name for the highest point on a railway line?

Question

What is the name for the highest point on a railway line?

Answer 1

Dent station.

Answer 2

Are you referring to the term "ruling grade"?  That's what a railroad calls the steepest hill that their trains have to climb.

Answer 3

Top o' the rail?

Answer 4

The summit.

Answer 5

summit

Answer 6

As far as my 14 years on the railway goes, nothing. There is no actual official name, but all the normal ones are used, summit peak, top of climb, etc.

Answer 7

Normally "the summit", though other mountainous names are sometimes used.

Also "the summit" will also be marked to inform line side workers where the track will change from being on a gradient to a flat or where it changes from being an uphill to downhill gradient.

Answer 8

the crest, does it really matter though, i mean you spent all that time climbing the hill, and probably won't spend very much time on top.