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.