Railway station and YARD

Prepared By :
1. Dhruv Makadia (17CE317)
Student of Civil Engineering
Birla Vishvakarma Mahavidyalaya College of
Engineering and Technology
Vallabh Vidyanagar

Birla Vishvakarma Mahavidyalaya Engineering College
Presentation Outline
Railways Station and Yards
• Purposes of railway station
• Site selection for railway station
• Requirements of railway station
• Classification of stations
• Classification of Yards

Purposes of railway station
• For exchange of passengers
• For exchange of goods
• For control of train movements
• For crossing
• For overtaking
• For detaching engines and staff
• For taking diesel or coal and water for locomotives

Site selection for railway station
• Land Acquisition
• Proximity to town or village
• Nature of land area
• Approach roads to station
Site
• Station site alignment
• Site Drainage
• Station Amenities
• Type of station and Yard
• Role of Authorities

Acquisition of Land
• Sufficient land area including land width for a
single track or double track system and extra
area to accommodate additional line, station
buildings, platforms, cabins, staff quarters, future
extension etc.

Proximity
• The station site should be close to the town or
village as far as possible to facilitate the
transport of passengers and goods.

Nature of Land
• The land area should preferably be a level ground
for convenient and safety of marshalling and
shunting wagons.
• In India, maximum permissible gradient for all
gauges, in station yards is 1 in 400, with desirable
value of 1 in 1000.

Approach Road
• It is highly essential to encourage rail transport by
providing approach roads connecting a town or
village to station site.
• Maximum transport facilities should be provided
for the type of traffic likely to be handled by the
approach roads.

Station Site Alignment
• Station site should never be located on curves
and as far as possible should not be near the
curve too.
• The alignment of track for both approaching and
departing trains should be straight otherwise the
signals will either be difficult to sight or out of
sight.

Site Drainage and
Station Amenities
• The site should have quick drainage facilities and
minimum grade of 1 in 1000 is recommended for
this purpose.
• Amenities like water supply, coal, diesel, electricity
etc. should be provided at
the station site.
• A plentiful supply of drinkable
water is essential.

Requirements of a Railway
Station
• Public Requirements
• Traffic and Police
• Trains
• Locomotives
• Development of railways

Public Requirements
• A booking office for tickets
• Goods and passenger platforms
• Drinking water
• Lighting and ventilation
• Waiting rooms and retiring rooms
• Sanitary arrangements and bath rooms
• Refrigerators for cold drinking water
• City map or guide map
• Display boards

Traffic Staff and Police
Requirements
• Staff rooms
• Retiring rooms
• Quarters for railway staffs

Train Requirements
• Signals
• Recording of movement of trains
• Sufficient no of sidings

Locomotive Requirements
• Proper arrangements for supply of
fuel and water
• Arrangements for cleaning,
examining, inspecting and
maintaining the locomotives

Requirements for development of
railways
• Easy and comfortable approach
roads to stations
• Installation of clocks, guide map,
separate boards for arrival and
departure of trains
• Availability of coolies on the
platforms
• Escalators, mini theatre , big
waiting halls, under ground
passages etc.,

Classification of stations
• Least expenditure with regard to the provision of
the least number of signals
• Flexibility in shunting operations
• Increasing the line capacity
• Faster movement of trains

Classification of stations

Operational Consideration
• Block Station
- A block station is a station at which the driver has
to obtain an 'authority to proceed' in order to enter
the next block section.
- The entire railway line is divided into convenient
block sections of 5 to 10 km and a block station is
provided at the end of each block.

Operational Consideration
• Non-block stations
- Non-block stations are located between two
block stations and do not form the boundary of any
block section.
- No signals are provided at D class stations

Functional Consideration
• The layout of stations varies in size and
importance according to the type and
volume of traffic handled and according to
their locations with respect to cities or
industrial areas
• Broadly speaking, the layouts required for
passenger stations and their yards can be
divided into the following categories for the
purpose of study.

Classification
of stations
Halt Flag Station Wayside Junction Terminal

• Halts

• Flag Station

• Wayside

• Junction

• Terminal

Types of Yards
• Passenger bogie Yards
• Goods yards
• Marshalling Yards
• Locomotive Yards / Transits Yards

Passenger Bogie Yard
• Provides facilities for the safe movement of
passengers and vehicles for the use of
passengers

Goods Yard
• Provides facilities for receiving, loading and un
loading, delivery of goods and the movement of
goods vehicles

Marshalling Yard
• Is one where trains and other loads are
received, sorted out and new trains are formed
and dispatched onwards to their destinations
• Functions:
1.Reception
2.Sorting
3.Departure

Marshalling Yard

Layout Plan of Marshalling Yard

Locomotive Yards
• Trains are received and dispatched without any
shunting on them.
• In such yard generally change of crew, engine,
C&W examination, etc. are carried out.

Locomotive Yards

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