Course Details
Railway Stations
Academic Year 2024/25
CN005 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
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 foot bridges. 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 position in railway network and according 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