Australian Railway Terminology
Barry Campbell (bcampbell@mpa.qld.gov.au)
9 Jul 1997 03:59:37 GMT
In my experience with the NSWGR and its successors, "points" was the term
used by traffic, locomotive and signal branch staff. In fact point levers
in interlockings were labelled as such.
On the other hand, permanent way staff almost always used the term
"turnout". From memory switches were a part of a turnout