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(rail transport) A pair of switches and a short, diagonal length of track which together connect two parallel tracks and allow passage between them.
1961 February, “Talking of Trains: Collision at Newcastle”, in Trains Illustrated, page 76:
The passenger train was signalled from one of the west end bay platforms along the Down South Line; as it passed through a crossover to the Up South Line the freight train, which had been travelling slowly to the Up South Line, over-ran the signal protecting the crossover and came into sidelong collision with it.
2023 December 27, Richard Foster, “New rail freight terminal leads the way”, in RAIL, number 999, page 40:
Network Rail developed and delivered the new crossover in just ten months - "phenomenally quickly", Mands says - and the work is included in the £20m build cost.
A piece of fiction that borrows elements from two or more fictional universes.