For a long time, the few things that could easily move around heavy machinery was trains. So lets say that there’s a train on a track, and its broken down and it either needs repairs, extra parts, or a replacement engine. Right behind it are several other trains, because this is a busy line.
How does a train bringing repair or extra engines deal with this? Its not like they can go right up to the broken down train because there’s other trains in the way. How do they get rid of the broken engine and the other carriages, because they’re on top of the tracks, and there’s no other tracks for them to move onto.
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They wouldn’t let the other trains onto that section of track.
Tracks have points along the way that can be used to divert the other trains around the blockage and the they send a train up the line to collect the rolling stock and the another to move the engine back to depot.
It’s chaos, but it’s easily fixed.
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