... . The line was fully signalled, had block apparatus and even had a passing loop and double sided platform at Compbyne- half way along the branch. The bay has the double catch point and the yard/ run-round loop the single one, which seemed the wrong way round for the potential risk. There is another oddity. The check rail just after the single slip from the loop and yard appears to finish just after the tip of the blade of the catch point, but perhaps that is an optical illusion? 2_051516_300000000.png (Photo is copyright Lens of Sutton and comes from Branch Lines of the Southern Railway volume 2). Regards, Arthur Attachment: attach_1646_2278_Lyme_regis_catch _points.jpg 1187 posted: 6 Aug 2013 16:31 from: Judi R I can only comment on my experience from the LMR, but we generally used the term Traps to refer to a device intended to trap a wrong movement such as exiting a siding or loop against the signal. A Catch point was a single-blade device to catch wrong-road movements and runaways in the ...