Tag:railway=junction

railway = 
Description
A junction where railways diverge or converge. Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: railways
Used on these elements
may be used on nodesshould not be used on waysshould not be used on areasshould not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
Requires
See also
Status: in use
More details at taginfo
Tools for this tag

The tag railway= is used to map a named junction where railways diverge or converge.

In the context of rail transport, a "junction" is a place at which two or more railway routes converge or diverge. This implies a physical connection between the tracks of the two railways (assuming they are of the same gauge), provided by points (US: switches) and signalling.

How to map

Use the railway= tag on node node where the railways converge/diverge. Add the tag name=* with the commonly-used name for the junction. Unnamed junction are not mapped with this tag.

Also see railway=switch, used to map the points ("switch" or "turnout") where trains can change from one track to another track.

Example

See also

This article is issued from OpenStreetMap Wiki. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.