- catch point
- A derailing switch on a railroad siding used to prevent cars on the siding from running downgrade into the main line. See McDowall v Great Western Railway Co. (Eng) [1903] 2 KB 331.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
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