Transfer table
A traverser serves numerous confined space parallel tracks to connect with each other and with a more or sidings. For this purpose, a piece of track is arranged in front of the track so that it can be moved transversely. Transfer platforms, together with the transition from circular locomotive sheds to rectangular locomotive sheds and workshops with parallel track arrangements, have largely replaced the turntables .
They are built in various forms, including recessed (the track carrier runs in a pit), shallow recessed (the track carrier runs in a drivable shallow depression) and flat sliding platforms (the track carrier runs over the continuously drivable floor). In the last two cases, track ramps lead up to the track carrier.
In some cases, transfer platforms, similar to segment turntables , replace points . With the perforated rack and pinion system , for example, switches are not possible at all. But they are also used in small railways and in industry, often hand-operated. They are inevitable, especially in sectors in which the products have to be moved on track-guided trolleys during manufacture. They are therefore often found in the ceramics industry ( brickworks , porcelain manufacture ), where the goods are driven through tunnel kilns on kiln cars.
literature
- Railway depot: prototype and model. EK-Verlag, Freiburg. Part 3: turntables and engine shed, 1994.
