Port station
A port station is a station that is used for transshipment traffic between railways and waterways , i.e. H. the handling of goods between ships and rail vehicles.
Operations at the port station are carried out either by the railway administration, to whose network the station is connected, or by the port administration.
A port station usually includes extensive shunting and sidings, possibly with a drainage mountain or, in large ports, as a fully developed shunting yard from a technical point of view .
While most stations in the port passage shape have been created before the branches of sidings, also harbor stations in North America are in head shape frequently, in which the Verladegleise directly with the track ladder are connected to the actual port station.
Furthermore, in addition to the main port station for the transition to the public railroad, large ports have several so-called district stations for the various port basins or areas. Some very large ports also have several main port stations, for example at the Hamburg port railway .
See also
A train station at a ferry port , where rail vehicles can or could drive directly on rail ferries or RoRo ships , is also called a ferry station (e.g. the Puttgarden ferry station or the Friedrichshafen Hafen station ). The maritime proximity is also underlined by the addition of a pier like in Norddeich or in Lauterbach on the route from Bergen on Rügen .
source
- Railroad Encyclopedia, 1914, 2nd Edition, Volume 6, Page 40