Do you "stable" a train a night?

A stabling point for a train is generally a designated place/siding where trains are parked for a period when they are not in use.

Stabled would be accurate description for a parked train.

Stabling is a term that is often used for leaving a train (for example in sidings overnight).

I believe the correct term (in the UK) for such an activity is berthing, that's what I've always been told to use in my years on the railway.

Shunting - for those who claim that is the term - refers to trains being moved, split, joined etc within, for example, a yard - whereas stabling, berthing (or whatever else you call it) refers to a train that is shut down and not moved.

In the rail road terminology of the US, when a train terminates, the expression is "yarded".

Most trains, except for local freight, are not yarded at a crew change point. Local freight is a train that will run, with but one crew, from point A to point B, their "tie up" (an expression that came from the stage coach teamsters of the old west) point, layover then return to point A the next day. In this instance, the train is not yarded, but "tied up." The "pool freight" trains just keep chugging away while the crew ties up to run home after getting their rest.

Power for trains that are yarded are sent to the "service track" or "roundhouse." If it needs minor repair, or running maintainence, it is sent to the "ramp."

Good question. Hope this answers it for you.

You "stable" a train when you put it in a depot or siding for any length of time and leave it unattended. If it is being serviced in a depot, it is then not "stabled" but "on shed".

as a ex-railman of 40 years we in england berth a train

Stabling seems to be the usual expression, both spoken and written.

AlexG

Shunting trains to the sheds/depots.

the correct term is "screwing it down".. applying the handbrakes automatically or we used to have to wind a handle years ago..

I believe it is reffered to as Shunting.

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