Dead-end - Short section running line terminating at buffer stops.
Deadhead - An empty car; a passenger riding on a pass; a locomotive traveling without cars.
Short, usually dead-end section of track used to access a facility or loading/ unloading ramp. It can also be used to temporarily store equipment or be a branch line over which irregular service is offered.
Bay platform: A type of platform/track arrangement where the train pulls into a siding, or dead-end, when serving the platform.
A platform which is also a dead-end. Often used for branch lines.
BCK
RAILWAYS. The British Rail passenger carriage designation code for a brake composite (i.e. first and second class) corridor coach.
A section of track accessed off the mainline by means of a turnout. A dead-end siding connected to the mainline by a turnout at one end only is called a "spur." A siding connected by turnouts at both ends is called a "Passing Siding."
Skunk ...
Trains run reverse loops, go back-and-forth on a dead-end line, others pass each other without crashing. Even when no one else is around and I'm working on the railway, it is pleasing to see everything chuffing and puffing around the layout.
 See also: Unit, Track, Standard, Rail, Layout
  
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