Course Details
Railway Stations and Junctions 2
Academic Year 2024/25
CN056 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
5 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
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. Hump, technical equipment.
3. Sets of tracks design, longitudinal section of hump track, dynamic estimation.
4. Set of sorting sidings.
5. Set of departure sidings, tracks for thoroughgoing trains.
6. Passenger stations, types, technology, extent. Switch and track layout, equipment and efficiency.
7. Railhead and trough passenger stations. Storage stations, technology, sets of tracks arrangement. Equipment of storage stations
8. Depots, running shed. Technology, arrangement of trackage.
9. Railway siding (factory, industrial), set of tracks, connection to railway stations, interchange tracks.
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
7. Setting out drawing, longitudinal profile.
8. Technical report.
9. Consultation of project.
10. Submitting of the projects, credit.