Traffic stop

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An InterCity with a DB class 120 locomotive at a traffic stop in Mainz main station

As traffic stop in will railway operation a scheduled excessive maintenance of a train called, of the entry and exit of passengers (passenger change) or - in the freight serves to accommodate groups of wagons or the loading and unloading of a train -.

The business stop at which there is no change of passengers or exchange of goods is to be distinguished from the traffic stop .

literature

  • Pachl, Jörn: System technology of rail traffic . Teubner, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-519-06383-2 , pp. 283 .