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Layout of Stations & Yards

The document describes different types of railway stations and yards. It discusses wayside stations including halt stations which are small and unstaffed, and flag stations which only stop when requested. Junction stations have lines from multiple directions meeting, while terminal stations are where lines end. Yards include passenger yards for passengers, goods yards for freight, and marshalling yards which sort wagons. Locomotive yards house engines for maintenance.

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Layout of Stations & Yards

The document describes different types of railway stations and yards. It discusses wayside stations including halt stations which are small and unstaffed, and flag stations which only stop when requested. Junction stations have lines from multiple directions meeting, while terminal stations are where lines end. Yards include passenger yards for passengers, goods yards for freight, and marshalling yards which sort wagons. Locomotive yards house engines for maintenance.

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Layout of Stations and Yards

Types of Stations

Wayside Stations
Junction Stations
Terminal Stations
Wayside Stations

In this type arrangements are made for crossing or


for overtaking trains. Wayside stations are of the
following types.
i.Halt stations, ii.Flag Stations, iii.Crossing
stations
Halt Stations

A halt, is a small station, usually unstaffed and with


few or no facilities. In some cases, trains stop only
on request, when passengers on the platform
indicate that they wish to board, or passengers on
the train inform the goods that they wish to board
or alight.
Halt Stations
Flag Stations

Flag stations describes a stopping point at which


trains stop only on an as-need or request basis; that
is, only if there are passengers to be picked up or
dropped off.
These stations have no overtaking or crossing
facilities and arrangements to control the movement
of trains. These stations have buildings, staff and
telegraph facilities.
Some of the flag stations have sidings also in the
form of loops.
Flag Station

 Building, staff & telegraph facilities


 No arrangement to control movement of trains
 No crossing facilities
 Some have sidings in the form of loops

Station Building

Passenger Platform

Main Track

Goods Siding
Loop Loop
Goods Siding
Goods Platform

Goods Shed
Crossing Stations

Provided with facilities for crossing.


In this type at least one loop line is provided to allow
another train if one track is already occupied by a
waiting train.
Generally the train to be stopped is taken on the loop
line and the through train is allowed to pass on the
main line.
Crossing Stations
Junction stations:

At a junction stations, lines from three or more directions


meet.
The stations where a branch line meets the main line are
known as junctions.
Arrangements in junction stations
Facilities for interchange of traffic between main and
branch line
Facilities to clean and repair the compartments of the
trains
Facilities for good sidings, engine sheds, turntable
etc.
Junction stations:
Terminal Stations:

It is a station where a railway line or one of its


branches terminates
Facilities required in terminal stations
Watering, coaling, cleaning, servicing the
engine
Turntable for the change of direction of the
engine
Facilities for dealing goods traffic. Such as
marshalling yard, engine sheds, sidings etc.
Terminal Stations:
Platforms - Passenger and Goods platforms:

 A railway platform is a section of pathway, alongside rail


way tracks at a railway station, metro station or tram stop,
at which passengers may board or alight from trains or
trams.

 Almost all railway stations have some form of platform,


with larger stations having multiple platforms.
Passenger Platform
Goods Platform
Definition of Yard:

An area consisting of a network of railway tracks,


sidings, and sheds for storing, maintaining, and
joining engines and carriages.
OR
A yard is defined as a system of tracks laid within
definite limits for various purposes such as
receiving, storing and dispatch of trains.
Railway Yard
Types of Yards:

Passenger yards
Goods yards
Marshalling yards
Locomotive yards
Passenger yards:

Function of passenger yard is to provide all the facilities


for the safe movement of passengers.
Facilities in passenger yards
Booking office, enquiry office, luggage booking room,
and waiting room for passengers
Parking space for vehicles
Signals for reception and dispatch of trains
Facilities for maintenance- changing batteries etc.
Facilities for passing a through train
Washing lines & drainage lines facilities
Passenger yards
Goods yards:

A goods station (also known as a goods yard,


goods depot or freight station) is, in the
widest sense, a railway station which is
exclusively or predominantly where goods
(or freight) of any description are loaded or
unloaded from ships or road vehicles and/or
where goods wagons are transferred to local
sidings.
These are provided for receiving, loading and
unloading of goods.
Goods yards
Marshalling yards:

Marshalling yard is a railroad yard found at


some freight train stations, used to separate
railroad cars on to one of several tracks
It is the place where goods wagons received from
different centres are sorted out and placed in order
to detached at different stations
The marshalling yards are distribution centres
Empty wagons are also kept in marshalling yards
Marshalling yards:
Types of marshalling yards:

(i)Flat yard (ii)Gravity yard (iii)Hump yard


Flat yard:

Flat yards are constructed on flat ground, or on a


gentle slope.
A flat yard has no hump, and relies on
locomotives for all car movements.
Gravity yard:

The whole yard is set up on a continuous falling


gradient and there is less use of shunting engines.
Hump-yard:

A hump yard has a constructed hill, over which freight


cars are pushed by yard locomotives, and then gravity is
used to propel the cars to various sorting tracks.
Hump-yard:
Locomotive yards:

This is the yard which houses the locomotives for


various facilities such as watering, fueling, cleaning,
repairing, servicing etc.
Locomotive yards:
Locomotive yards:
Scotch and Sand Hump
Sand hump:

Method of checking trains and controlling out of


control trains.
The rails in the dead end siding after some fixed
distance get embedded in the sand and come to
rest.
Weigh Bridge:

These are level platforms with rails and are


connected to the main track.
The beam rests on the knife edge and attached to the
lever to which loaded wagons come to the siding to
the weigh bridge is fixed.
The lever mechanism is activated and weight is
indicated.
Weigh Bridge
Weigh Bridge

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