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Railway Stations and Junctions 2
FAST-NNB016Acad. year: 2021/2022
Passenger stations, types, technology, extent. Switch and track layout, equipment and efficiency. Railhead and through passenger stations.
Storage stations, technology, sets of tracks arrangement. Equipment of storage stations
Shunting yards, functions, position in railway network. Development of sorting technology. Set of reception sidings. Hump, technical equipment, sets of tracks design, longitudinal section of hump track, dynamic estimation. Set of sorting sidings. Set of departure sidings, tracks for thoroughgoing trains.
Depots, running shed. Technology, the arrangement of trackage.
Railway siding (factory, industrial), set of tracks, connection to railway stations, interchange tracks
Railway junctions, passenger and goods traffic.
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2. Set of reception sidings. Set of sorting sidings. Set of departure sidings, tracks for thoroughgoing trains.
3. Hump, technical equipment.Sets of tracks design, longitudinal section of hump track, dynamic estimation.
4. Passenger stations, types, technology, extent. Switch and track layout, equipment and efficiency. Railhead and through passenger stations.
5. Storage stations, technology, sets of tracks arrangement. Equipment of storage stations.
6. Depots, running shed. Technology, the arrangement of trackage.
7.–8. Railway siding (factory, industrial), set of tracks, connection to railway stations, interchange tracks.
9.–10. Railway junctions, passenger and goods traffic.
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- Programme NPC-SIK Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
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