How do Trains switch tracks?

Unlike a motor vehicle on road, a train moves on a pair of rails and its movement is controlled by the way the rails or tracks are linked. The linking or delinking of tracks is done from the control cabin using special segments of tracks called ‘points’.

At the ‘points’, the rails are designed in such a way that with the movement of a ‘tongue’ — a tapered movable metal blade — the continuity in a track may be made or broken, that is, a track may be linked to or delinked from another track.

The train continues to run on the linked rails and thus switches tracks.