A <i>trap point</i> at the train station of Allersberg, Nuremberg-Munich high-speed railway line. This is a safety device that would lead a train to the buffer at the right, in the unlikely event that the engineer passes by the red signal before the switch. Such <i>trap point</i> railway switches are obligatory for high-speed railway lines (v_max &gt; 160 km/h) in Germany.
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