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@Buffalo_Bill
This is crap. There are heaps of different disciplines on the track, and many different types of track, short with tight and steep banking, long with shallow banks (HHV), wooden, concrete, asphalt etc. Therefore different frames will be more or less suitable for specific events on different tracks
A track pursuit bike looks different to a madison bike, which both look different to a sprint bike. A super-stiff ally frame fitted with super stiff wheels is probably not the right choice for a hard bumpy track like HHV, but might well be the perfect mount at a wooden wall of death like Calshot.
Therefore the only generalisation you can make is that a track bike will have a fixed-wheel, no hand -brakes no quick releases and capped bar ends (although you would have to ride drops for mass-start events, whereas you could ride lo-pros for time trial events). I don't think there are even any rules that stipulate that any bike to be ridden on the track has to have backward facing rear drop outs. I am pretty sure that you could get up at HHV with forward facing rear drop outs
Likewise any bike that any courier rides is a courier bike.
There was a guy who used to ride a MTB with a dog in the front basket, wouldn't have been my choice, but it was still a courier bike.