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Classification of Railway Station According To Their Functional Characteristics

This document classifies railway stations according to their functional characteristics. It describes different types of stations including way side stations, junction stations, and terminal stations. It also describes different types of facilities within stations like halt stations, flat stations, crossing stations, and station yards which include passenger, goods, locomotive, and marshalling yards. The marshalling yard is where trains are sorted by destination and new trains are formed for departure.

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Classification of Railway Station According To Their Functional Characteristics

This document classifies railway stations according to their functional characteristics. It describes different types of stations including way side stations, junction stations, and terminal stations. It also describes different types of facilities within stations like halt stations, flat stations, crossing stations, and station yards which include passenger, goods, locomotive, and marshalling yards. The marshalling yard is where trains are sorted by destination and new trains are formed for departure.

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Classification of railway station

according to their functional


characteristics

• Way side station


• Junction station
• Terminal station

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Way side station
• Station having an arrangement only for
crossing up & down train & for overtaking a
slow moving train by fast train.
Types of station
• Halt station
• Flat station
• Crossing station
Halt station

• Stopping place • No building and staf


Flat station

• Similar to halt station


but in this station
building & staf are
provided
• Also have facility
telegraph,
Crossing station

Facility are provided for crossing up & down


train provided with one loop line
Type
• Crossing type way side
• Crossing type way side station on double line
track
• Crossing type way side station on triple line
track
Junction station
• It have some special arrangement to fulfill
following requirement
• To facilitate the interchange of traffic between
main & branch line
• To clean & repair railway, locomotive etc
• To change the direction of engine
Junction station
Terminal station
• The station at which
railway line terminate
or ends is known as
terminal station
Station yard
• A system of track laid within prescribed limits
on a railway station , over which movements
of train are not authorized by the time tble is
known as station yard
Classification of station yard
• Passenger bogie yard
• Good yard
• Locomotive yard
• Marshalling yard
Passenger bogie yard

• Provide facility for safe movement of


passenger and bogies
Good yard

• It provide facility for receiving, loading


unloading &delivery of goods
Locomotive yard

• It provide facilities for


watering, repairing,
oiling , cleaning of
locomotive.
Marshalling yard

• The yard where trains &


other loads are
received, sorted out
stations wise & new
trains are formed and
despatched onward are
known as marshalling
yard
Function of Marshalling yard
• Reception of empty & loaded wagons
• Sorting of wagons
• Departure of wagons in the form of train
Water column
• They are provided for feeding the water to stem
locomotive.
• It will situated at the end of the platform so that
engine of running trains can take water when heating
• They may installed on ash pits so that the engine
may remove their ash simultaneously while taking
water
• At important stations two or more water column are
provided
Water column

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