Pulling off (railway)

Prints is in the railroad a maneuvering a Rangierabteilung from uncoupled freight cars via a hump by a shunting locomotive or a capstan system . It usually takes place in a marshalling yard . The purpose of pushing off is to push the individual freight wagons or groups of freight wagons in the shunting department over the highest point of the runoff mountain, from where they then roll downwards due to the force of gravity and are guided into the corresponding track of the direction group or, more rarely, the exit group , via the respective switch connections become. This process can be controlled by a trigger signal .

literature

• Hans-Joachim Kirsche: Take the trigger . In: Lexicon of the Railway. 5th edition, Berlin 1978, p. 12.