Direction track

This article deals with the track group of a marshalling yard; for the single track of a railway line traveled in one direction: see track .

Directional tracks of the marshalling yard Kornwestheim

Directional tracks are tracks of a marshalling yard in which new freight trains for the various directions or destination stations are formed from individual rail freight cars. Several directional tracks are combined in a separate directional group or directional harp (in Austria : series station ).

The wagons run over the drainage hill into the direction tracks and line up to form the new train compositions.

literature

• Jörn Pachl: Textbook: System technology of rail traffic . Plan, control and secure rail operations. 9th edition. Verlag Springer, Vieweg 2018, ISBN 978-3-658-21407-4 , pp. 304 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Jörn Pachl : Glossary of the system technology of rail traffic. Jörn Pachl, January 21, 2016, accessed on October 23, 2018 .