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.