[dario]

I often wonder how little I know of Railways, although I love them.
I have read on a book for the first time that American Passenger Locomotive-hauled Trains do not enter a Terminus directly, but rather go into a "wye", and then reverse with the Tail/Observation Car leading into the Terminus.
The book is in Italian, for the record its title is "L'epopea del treno" (the marking of train epochs).
On this book there are two pictures of the LNER Coronation train of 1937, showing the Tail-car inside and out.
My question then is: did this train also reverse into the Terminus?
What was British practice for this operation?
Now I tell you what I believed prior to reading the above: the train went straight through, passengers alighted, then the train was sent backwards in a reversing loop under the mainline and set ready for the return trip.
Well, this was the practice on the Melbourne Model Railway Society great layout, when I lived down under 30 years ago.
By the way, does any of you have the book THE WORLD OF MODEL TRAINS by Guy R.Williams (Autumn 1970) ? Read the piece on the great MMRS.