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    In the earliest times, railway turnouts were operated manually with levers. Gradually, turnouts on main lines came to be operated remotely up to 300m away using centralized levers in signal boxes connected by rods, pipes, or wires. As track layouts became more complex, there was a desire to operate turnouts from even farther distances, requiring some form of power operation like hydraulic, pneumatic, or electric systems. More recently, heavier rails and higher-speed turnouts have made turnouts too stiff for mechanical drives alone, necessitating the introduction of modern point machines with electric motors and gears to move and lock the switch blades from a distance.

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    In the earliest times, railway turnouts were operated manually with levers. Gradually, turnouts on main lines came to be operated remotely up to 300m away using centralized levers in signal boxes connected by rods, pipes, or wires. As track layouts became more complex, there was a desire to operate turnouts from even farther distances, requiring some form of power operation like hydraulic, pneumatic, or electric systems. More recently, heavier rails and higher-speed turnouts have made turnouts too stiff for mechanical drives alone, necessitating the introduction of modern point machines with electric motors and gears to move and lock the switch blades from a distance.

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    In the earliest times, railway turnouts were operated manually with levers. Gradually, turnouts on main lines came to be operated remotely up to 300m away using centralized levers in signal boxes connected by rods, pipes, or wires. As track layouts became more complex, there was a desire to operate turnouts from even farther distances, requiring some form of power operation like hydraulic, pneumatic, or electric systems. More recently, heavier rails and higher-speed turnouts have made turnouts too stiff for mechanical drives alone, necessitating the introduction of modern point machines with electric motors and gears to move and lock the switch blades from a distance.

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    In the earliest times, railway turnouts were operated manually with levers. Gradually, turnouts on main lines came to be operated remotely up to 300m away using centralized levers in signal boxes connected by rods, pipes, or wires. As track layouts became more complex, there was a desire to operate turnouts from even farther distances, requiring some form of power operation like hydraulic, pneumatic, or electric systems. More recently, heavier rails and higher-speed turnouts have made turnouts too stiff for mechanical drives alone, necessitating the introduction of modern point machines with electric motors and gears to move and lock the switch blades from a distance.

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    Overview

    In the earliest times, railway turnouts were operated manually by simple levers.
    There are a number of different kinds of levers including throwover levers
    which stay in the last position thrown, and ball levers which revert to a standard
    position.

    Gradually the turnouts on main lines came to be operated at distances up to


    about 300m by centralised levers in signal boxes, either by rodding or piping, or
    by double wire arrangements.

    Since the limitation of mechanical operation restricted the design of track


    layouts on the one hand, and tended to require more signal boxes, even lightly
    used ones, on the other hand, there has always been a desire of railway
    administrations to increase the distance that remote turnouts can be operated.
    This requires some kind of power operation of points and signals. The principal
    means of power operation include hydraulic, pneumatic and electric.

    More recently with the increase in weight of rail, and the introduction of high
    speed turnouts with finer angles requiring multiple drives, points have become
    stiffer and beyond the capability of mechanical drives, forcing the introduction
    of point machines if not already done so.

    Principle
    Modern point machines have an electric motor and gears to convert rotating
    motion of motor into linear motion. The gear assembly also provides required
    transmission ratio so that it can generate necessary force to move switch
    blades. The machine performs following functions:

    1. Moving switch blades.


    2. Locking the blades
    3. Detection and proving the position of blades.

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