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Railway junction
Usually, a railway junction means a large railway station receiving freight and passenger trains and carrying out the reformation of trains.Railway junction– it is a complex of technologically interconnected sorting freight and passenger stations with main connecting bypass and access roads with depot stations and its own sources of electricity. It ensures the passage of transit trains from one line to another, transfers wagons between stations that are part of it and lines converging in it (there are usually at least three of them at the node).