Course Details

Railway Stations and Junctions 1 (DST)

Academic Year 2025/26

NNB010 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIK Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

Ing. Richard Svoboda, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Railway Structures and Constructions

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/295876

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Operating control points and open track, basic terms. Division of operating control points, a division of railway stations according to the position in railway network. Tracks in railway stations, tracks numeration, symbols of tracks, track length, distances of track centre lines.
  • 2. Basic transport regulations, train diagram, train schedule of railway stations. Time diagram of station operation, track occupation diagram, operating efficiency, making up of trains.
  • 3. Railway stations – railhead, intermediate.
  • 4. Railway stations – connection and junction.
  • 5. Railway junctions, transit and exchange railway stations.
  • 6. Track alignment design parameters in control operation points and other operation points
  • 7. Railway superstructure, substructure and its drainage in railway stations
  • 8. Construction of platforms, pedestrian subways and footbridges.
  • 9. Platform requirements.
  • 10. Platforms for persons with reduced mobility r
  • 11. Railway stops, passing sidings, branching points, junctions.
  • 12. Station buildings and reception area.
  • 13. Equipment for loading and unloading of goods, goods depots, ramps, service roads. Goods stations.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Specifying of the first project, guidelines to draw up.
  • 2. Guidelines to horizontal and vertical alignment in a station.
  • 3. Format and content of drawings – setting out a drawing, longitudinal profile.
  • 4. Submitting of the first project, specifying of the second project.
  • 5. Changes of track axes distances, station scheme.
  • 6. Design of railway substructure in a railway station.
  • 7. Format and content of drawings – the situation of the railway station.
  • 8. Platforms, ramps.
  • 9. Technical report.
  • 10.–12. Consultation of projects.
  • 13. Submitting of the second projects, credit.