Course Details
Railway Stations
Academic Year 2025/26
NNB015 course is part of 1 study plan
NPC-SIK Winter Semester 2nd year
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 footbridges. 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 to a position in railway network and according to 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.