Wiktionary
facing points
n. (context rail transport English) A set of points at which two routes diverge in the direction of travel.
Usage examples of "facing points".
Sodden hair hanging in triangular, downward-facing points like limp, gray pennants from the underside of his arm, he pointed.
They mostly had very prominent jaws and small noses, more like porcine snouts, a double row of snaggle teeth, with serrated, rear-facing points, tiny eyes with vertically split pupils and ridges of protective bone over them, and their ears were set flat against the sides of their narrow skulls.