Cargo handling

Former goods handling at Dresden-Gittersee train station (2009)

Goods handling in Lauterbach

Former Altona freight yard , freight handling building

The Güterabfertigung (Ga) refers to an operational facility, on the other hand the process itself, the railway serves the cargo , which the railway is to be carried cleared.

organization

A distinction is made between dispatch processing and receiving processing. In addition to the acceptance and handover of freight , the tasks of goods handling also include tasks from freight wagon service . In the past, general cargo was very important here in Germany .

Goods handling is usually assigned to a train station . Structurally, they were housed in their own buildings, goods sheds or parts of the reception building. Larger goods handling was usually assigned to a freight yard and had several departments: dispatch, reception, determination (of the whereabouts of freight shipments), goods checkout and wagon service.

literature

• Gerhard Adler u. a .: Lexicon of the Railway . Berlin 1978.

Web links

• Definition according to Duden .

Remarks

1. ↑ For the Deutsche Reichsbahn also: GAV (cf. Adler, p. 349 (keyword: freight handling )).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Adler, p. 694 (keyword: general cargo handling ).
2. ↑ Adler, p. 349 (keyword: goods handling ).