Where does a train go when it terminates.?

Question

australia please.

Answer 1

The locomotives are put on the other end and it goes in the opposite direction.

Or if it is a freight train, the freight cars are removed and put with other freight cars. So building another train for another destination.

Answer 2

It's a very sad story, but they take the terminated train to a huge funeral parlor and put it in a very very long box and pay last respects to it.

I'm sorry, I coulndt help myself . . . . . .

Freight trains go to a rail yard, where workers take it all apart into each individual car and distribute these to the shippers for loading and unloading.

Passenger trains will usually go around a "wye" track which is a way ot turning railroad equipment, or they can take the locomotives and run around the train and put it on the other end provided there is no directional equipment that is only suitable for operating in one direction.

Answer 3

lnto a siding l expect same the  world over

Answer 4

Trains are usually designated with a "from" location (point of origin) and a "to" point (Destination).  Railroads designate trains like this so that they can minimize the times a train is broken apart and put back together adding and removing cars along the way.  An example would be one of Union Pacific's trains.  It goes by the call MRODV which meant: Manifest, (General Freight) Roper terminal (Salt Lake City, Utah) to Denver Colorado).  This train would take cars primarily destined for Denver.  Cars coming from other areas or originating in Salt Lake City would be placed on this train and then be transported to Denver.  The train may make a few of pick-ups or set-outs along the way but they would be minimal.

The yard crew would split it up based on destination. Most crews try to "block" their trains when making them up so that crews in yards that will switch the train later on won't have to do so much switching.  In blocking a train, the crews would place cars together in the train based on destination.  All of the St. Louis cars would be together.  All the Chicago cars would go together and so on.

Once the train gets to Denver, it would terminate.  Then the yard crew would take the "blocks" and any unblocked cars and assemble trains with new designations.  This is where "hump" yards are handy as they allow for making multiple new trains on the fly out of one terminating train.  The locomotives from the terminating train would then be sent for inspections, servicing, cleaning and fueling.  They would then be placed back into the "pool" to be assigned to another train.

I use the above names and locations as an example and it may differ slightly from area to area.