Railway carriage conveyor system

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A trolley in working position
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A railroad car conveyor system (also: Beidrückanlage, colloquially called a conveyor system) automatically moves railroad cars on the track to a defined point, usually the end of the track. Conveyor systems are required to ensure the maximum filling of the track in shunting yards during operation, as well as the ready-for-coupling installation of the expired freight wagons without the help of a shunting locomotive.

A railroad car conveyor system consists of an electronic control system that both calculates the destination of the train car as it passes through and regulates the movement of the caravan. The trolley is installed between the rails , below the level of the rail heads, and is moved to the destination using a capstan system. There is a roller on the trolley that can be folded onto the rail and then pushes the railway carriage to its destination. Another construction (picture) lifts rollers from the profile between the rails above the level of the upper edge of the rails and presses them against the flanges of the wagon wheels.

In the mining industry , similar systems are used for automated unloading and loading of shaft conveyor systems with conveyor lorries or material transport vehicles. In the so-called. Cart circulation at the Hängebank in track center of chains mounted transport carrier coming from the conveyor basket Loren to the unloading point and from there back to the shaft.