It’s officially called a ‘transfer accelerator’ by Dutch railway maintenance company ProRail, but everyone else would say it’s a slide.

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keeping with the rail theme, here's a knob crossing a closed line

What a dick, that train nearly had him,

I can smell his underpants from here the dirty barstwert

Crikey what an absolute Knob