Points: Normal/Reverse or Left/Right

[PJW]

PWay use N-hand switch closed. N/R is a signalling term primarily.

I wouldn't be too concerned with these definitions. Both can be ambiguous.

J

Thanks Jerry, I am involved in updating one of the study guides and hoped to make it less UK specific. Should I assume all readers will be familiar with Normal/Reverse?

No, not used in much of Europe- probably only places with a British tradition have retained (although I suspect that anywhere with mechanical signalling would have tended to have utilised the terminology 150 years ago that most would have abandoned when relay based signalling dominated say 50 years ago)