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points

phrase[ plural ] mainly UK(US usuallyswitches)
a place on a railway track where the rails (= metal bars on which the trains travel) can be moved to allow a train to change from one track to another: （铁路的）道岔，转辙器
The train rattled as it went over the points.火车哐啷哐啷驶过道岔。
Overhead lines are impractical when trains run through the points at high speed.
More than a hundred trains pass over this set of points every day.
The inquiry heard that signallers failed to switch the points.
The train swayed as it thundered over a set of points.
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