Course Details
Railway Stations and Junctions 2
Academic Year 2025/26
NNB016 course is part of 1 study plan
NPC-SIK Winter Semester 2nd year
Passenger stations, types, technology, extent. Switch and track layout, equipment and efficiency. Railhead and through passenger stations.
Storage stations, technology, sets of tracks arrangement. Equipment of storage stations
Shunting yards, functions, position in railway network. Development of sorting technology. Set of reception sidings. Hump, technical equipment, sets of tracks design, longitudinal section of hump track, dynamic estimation. Set of sorting sidings. Set of departure sidings, tracks for thoroughgoing trains.
Depots, running shed. Technology, the arrangement of trackage.
Railway siding (factory, industrial), set of tracks, connection to railway stations, interchange tracks
Railway junctions, passenger and goods traffic.
Storage stations, technology, sets of tracks arrangement. Equipment of storage stations
Shunting yards, functions, position in railway network. Development of sorting technology. Set of reception sidings. Hump, technical equipment, sets of tracks design, longitudinal section of hump track, dynamic estimation. Set of sorting sidings. Set of departure sidings, tracks for thoroughgoing trains.
Depots, running shed. Technology, the arrangement of trackage.
Railway siding (factory, industrial), set of tracks, connection to railway stations, interchange tracks
Railway junctions, passenger and goods traffic.
Credits
5 credits
Language of instruction
Czech
Semester
winter
Course Guarantor
Institute
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Entry Knowledge
Design of railway stops, goods points and operation control points, especially railway stations
Aims
The objective of the subject is to introduce students to the problems of railway junctions, passenger and goods traffic in them and to practise acquires knowledge and skills.
A student acquires skills in problems of railway junctions, passenger and goods traffic.
A student acquires skills in problems of railway junctions, passenger and goods traffic.
Basic Literature
Majerčák, J. a kol. Železničná dopravná prevádzka, Technológia železničných staníc, EDIS, 2008, ISBN 978-80-8070-887-0 (sk)
Gombitová, J., Projektovanie, stavba a rekonštrukcia železničných staníc I, EDIS, 2007, ISBN 978-80-8070-755-2 (sk)
Gombitová, J., Projektovanie, stavba a rekonštrukcia železničných staníc I, EDIS, 2007, ISBN 978-80-8070-755-2 (sk)
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Shunting yards, functions, position in railway network. Development of sorting technology.
- 2. Set of reception sidings. Set of sorting sidings. Set of departure sidings, tracks for thoroughgoing trains.
- 3. Hump, technical equipment.Sets of tracks design, longitudinal section of hump track, dynamic estimation.
- 4. Passenger stations, types, technology, extent. Switch and track layout, equipment and efficiency. Railhead and through passenger stations.
- 5. Storage stations, technology, sets of tracks arrangement. Equipment of storage stations.
- 6. Depots, running shed. Technology, the arrangement of trackage.
- 7.–8. Railway siding (factory, industrial), set of tracks, connection to railway stations, interchange tracks.
- 9.–10. Railway junctions, passenger and goods traffic.
Exercise
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- 1. Specifying of the project, guidelines to draw up.
- 2. Design of hump height.
- 3. Design of turnout assembly, sets of tracks.
- 4. Design of longitudinal profile.
- 5. Dynamic evaluation of hump.
- 6. Format and content of drawings – Setting out drawing, longitudinal profile.
- 7. Consultation on the project.
- 8. Submitting of the projects, credit.