Luggage platform
A luggage platform is a service platform from which luggage , rail mail and express goods are loaded onto trains.
In order to avoid obstructions between passenger traffic and baggage traffic on passenger platforms, additional baggage platforms were created between the platform tracks at larger stations, especially terminal stations . The minimum width for two-lane cart traffic was 4.55 meters, the platform edge height was usually 30 centimeters. Access is via the cross platform , elevators or ramps.
There is no public traffic on the baggage platforms. Today these platforms are mainly used for loading and unloading the train restaurants and for disposing of garbage from trains. In various train stations such as Frankfurt Central Station , after the baggage and rail mail traffic was discontinued in 1997, baggage platforms were partially dismantled and the space was used to widen passenger platforms.
literature
- Röll, Freiherr von: Encyclopedia of the Railway System . Berlin, Vienna 1912
- Adler, Gerhard: Lexicon of the Railway , Transpress, Berlin 1978