Course Details

Railway Stations

Academic Year 2024/25

NNB015 course is part of 1 study plan

NPC-SIK Winter Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

3 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Basic transport regulations, train diagram, train schedule of railway stations. 2. Time diagram of station operation, track occupation diagram, operating efficiency, making up of trains. 3. Design of railway stops, goods points and operation control points, design elements of railway stations, geometry parameters of trackage. Operating control points and open track, basic terms. 4. Tracks in railway stations, tracks numeration, symbols of tracks, track length, distances of track centre lines. 5. Track alignment design parameters in control operation points and other operation points. 6. Platforms, ramps, pedestrian subways and footbridges. Railway superstructure, substructure and its drainage in railway stations 7. Railway stops, passing sidings, branching points, junctions. 8. Railway stations – general principles, division of railway stations according to a position in railway network and according to operation character. 9. Railhead stations, intermediate, connection, junction stations 10. Railway junctions, transit and exchange railway stations, transhipment stations.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Train diagram, train schedule of railway stations. 2. Operating efficiency, making up of trains. 3. Design of railway stops, goods points. 4. Tracks in railway stations. 5. Track alignment design parameters in railway stations. 6. Railway substructure and its drainage in railway stations. 7. Platforms and ramps. 8. Branching points, junctions. 9. Railway stations. 10. Railway junctions.