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Station and Yard: Reference Books

1. A railway station is a place where trains stop to load and unload passengers and cargo. Stations have facilities like platforms, ticket offices, and waiting areas. 2. The functions of stations include allowing passengers and goods to board and disembark trains, enabling trains to cross or overtake each other, and providing fuel, water, and repairs for locomotives. 3. Stations are classified based on their functions, from simple halts with minimal facilities to terminal stations that are the final destination or starting point of railway lines. Junction stations connect multiple lines, while wayside stations facilitate crossing of trains on single lines.

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Station and Yard: Reference Books

1. A railway station is a place where trains stop to load and unload passengers and cargo. Stations have facilities like platforms, ticket offices, and waiting areas. 2. The functions of stations include allowing passengers and goods to board and disembark trains, enabling trains to cross or overtake each other, and providing fuel, water, and repairs for locomotives. 3. Stations are classified based on their functions, from simple halts with minimal facilities to terminal stations that are the final destination or starting point of railway lines. Junction stations connect multiple lines, while wayside stations facilitate crossing of trains on single lines.

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Station and Yard

Reference Books: i) RAILWAY ENGINEERING


By

SATISH CHANDRA

ii)RAILWAY ENGINEERING
By

RANGWALAS
Station
A railway station is that place on a
railway line where traffic is booked
and
dealt with and where trains are given the
authority to proceed forward.
Purposes of a Railway Station
(a)To entrain or detrain passengers
(b)To load or unload goods or parcels
(c)To control the movement of trains
(d)To enable trains to cross each other in the case of a single-line
section
(e)To enable faster trains to overtake slower ones
(f)To enable locomotives to refuel, whether it be diesel, water, or
coal
(g)To attach or detach coaches or wagons to trains
(h)To collect food and water for passengers
(i)To provide facilities for change of engines and crew/staff
(j)To enable sorting out of wagons and bogies to form new trains
(k)To provide facilities and give shelter to passengers in the case of emergencies
such as floods and accidents, which disrupt traffic

Selection of Site for a Railway Station


. The following factors are considered when selecting a site for a railway station:
Adequate land
Level area with good drainage
Alignment
Easy accessibility
Water supply arrangement

Functional Classification of Stations


Halts
Flag stations
Wayside stations
Junction stations
Terminal stations
Halt Station
no yard or station building or staff provided for such types of stations
Sometimes a small waiting shed is also provided, which also serves as a booking office

Flag Station
Is usually provided with a small waiting hall and booking office,
platforms and benches, and arrangements for drinking water
Flag Station
Wayside Station
The idea of a crossing station was initially conceived for single-line sections, to
facilitate the crossing of trains going in opposite directions so that there may be a
more rapid movement of trains
Dead end siding at either end of the station to accommodate wagons that are marked
sick
FOB=Foot Over Bridge

Fig: A wayside or crossing station on a single-line section

Fig: A wayside or crossing station on a Double-line section


Junction Stations
A junction station is the meeting point of three or more lines emerging from different directions

Figure: Junction station with single main line and single branch line
Terminal station
The station at which a railway line or one of its branches terminates is known as a
terminal station or a terminal junction
In circulating area, ticket office, restaurant etc. are provided and it is directly
connected to the roads
Yard
A yard is a system of tracks laid out to deal with the passenger as well as goods
traffic being handled by the railways. This includes receipt and dispatch of trains,
Storing of train, sorting, making up trains, and other such functions.

Types of Yard

i. Coaching yard
The main function of a coaching yard is to deal with the reception and dispatch of
passenger trains.
Depending upon the volume of traffic, this yard provides facilities such as watering
and fuelling of engines, washing of rakes, examination of coaches, charging of
batteries, and trans-shipment of passengers.
ii. Goods yard
A goods yard provides facilities for the reception, loading, unloading, and dispatch
of goods wagons
iii. Locomotive Yard
This is the yard which houses the locomotive. Facilities for cleaning, fuelling,
examining locomotives, watering ,repairing, etc., are provided in this yard.
iv. Marshalling yard( See figure from book)
The marshalling yard is a yard where goods trains are received and sorted out, and
new trains are formed and finally dispatched to various destinations.
This yard receives loaded as well as empty goods wagons from different stations for
further booking to different destinations
Functions of Marshalling Yard
Reception of trains
Sorting of trains
Departure of trains
Types of Marshalling Yard
Marshalling yards can be classified as:
Flat Yard
Gravitation yards, and Detail from Rangwalas book
Hump yards
Equipment at Railway Stations
Ash pit:
Ashpits (also called de-ashing Pits) are provided to collect the ashes falling from the
locomotives. They are rectangular in shape and of a depth of about 1m and are lined
with fire bricks.
Turntable:
A turntable is a device used for changing the direction of a locomotive
It is normally provided at terminal stations, locomotive yards, and marshalling yards
Turntable
Fouling Mark
A fouling mark is provided between two converging tracks at the point beyond which
the centre-to-centre distance of the track is less than the stipulated minimum
distance.
This minimum distance is 4.265 m for BG and 3.66m for MG lines
Fouling marks guard against the possibility of collision between wagons.
. Level Crossings
Level crossings are provided on railway line to allow road traffic to pass across the
track when railway line and a road surface meet at the same level
As the level of the passing road traffic is the same as that of the railway track, the
crossing is referred to as a level crossing

Classification of Level Crossings


Level crossings may be manned or unmanned. One or more gatemen are posted at
manned level crossings to regulate the traffic. In an unmanned level crossing, there
is no gateman and road users cross the railway line at their own risk after taking
the necessary precautions.
Level crossings can be classified into different categories depending upon the class of
the road, visibility conditions, volume of road traffic, and the number of trains passing
over the level crossing. The classification of level crossings is as follows:
-Special class , A class, B classic, C class, and D class.
Some of the safety measures that can be taken to reduce accidents on
level crossings are as follows:
Manning of level crossings
Providing lifting barriers
Level crossing indicators
Stop signs for level crossings
Speed breaker at level crossings
Visibility
Surprise checks

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