Railway switch change direction verb

I'm looking for the verb which could be used to indicate that someone changed the direction of a railway switch. Is it:

1. to turn a railway switch
2. to toggle a railway switch
3. to change a railway switch

Or something else?

Example sentence:
"The locomotive driver turned/toggled/changed/... the railway switch."

Solution 1:

As someone who spends a lot of time writing software to control railway signals, the usual term is throw a set of points.

Alternative terms are specific to the direction:
Pull the points moves them such that the train moves off the main line ("Reverse" position).
Push the points moves them back to the straight line position ("Normal" position).

Push and Pull are used as, by convention, this is the direction in which the lever is moved when it is located in a signal box, as opposed to trackside.

To be pedantic, if the driver is getting out of the cab to manually throw a lever, then it is a ground frame.

In the US (and the London Underground), points are known as switches.

Solution 2:

In the context of a (UK) railway train track, it's change the points. (4720 written instances).

^{Cambridge Dictionary}
points (plural) mainly UK, US usually switches
a place on a railway track where the rails (= metal bars on which the trains travel) can be moved to allow a train to change from one track to another
Ex: The train rattled as it went over the points.

EDIT: It's worth pointing out that idiomatically you throw a switch, metaphorically referencing a single sweeping motion (of the finger, hand, or arm) to "fling" a lever switch from the On to Off position (or vice-versa).

Obviously that metaphor breaks down in the context of shifting really heavy railway tracks from one alignment to another, which is why the general public would tend not to embrace the usage in that context (throw the points gets only 1800 hits). People in the business think in terms of routing the trains, controlling the "traffic flow" using "switches", but non-specialists probably tend to think (nostalgically?!) in terms of Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton laboriously winding a geared wheel by the trackside.