Sentence examples for express track from inspiring English sources

That prompted train controllers to decide to keep the express track in operation temporarily.

After yesterday's accident, the train was held on the express track while the police and transit workers investigated.

He gestured toward the sign pointing to the express track, prepared to explain the relationship between local and express trains.

He was struck by a southbound train that had been rerouted onto the express track because of a sick person at a nearby station, they said.

The accident caused transit officials to divert trains on the V line to the express track for an hour and 40 minutes.

They were both southbound on the middle or express track when one ran into the back of the other, said Deirdre Parker, a transit spokeswoman.

On the floor above, another machine with 362 levers controlled the express tracks.

X-OVERS -- The term for crossover switching areas, where trains switch from, for instance, local to express tracks.

John Samuelsen, the Local 100 official who represents track workers, said Mr. Antony, a signal maintainer, was doing an inspection and was between the uptown and downtown express tracks.

Keeping the Dyre Avenue train on a local track, they say, will prevent bottlenecks involving the No. 2 train, which also switches to express tracks at 180th Street.

The track was next to the express tracks, so there was plenty of room to get out of the way of oncoming local trains.