GB/T 15165-1994Terminology for railway stations and terminals (English PDF)

GB/T 15165-1994 is the English-translated version of 铁道车站及枢纽术语.

China's national vocabulary for railway stations and terminals - the terminology of the fixed installations where trains are formed, sorted, held, turned and handed over, and of the junctions where several lines meet.

It establishes the terms and definitions used for railway stations and railway terminals.

A station in railway usage is not a place where passengers get on a train; it is a defined section of line under a single control, with points and signals, at which trains may be overtaken, crossed, terminated, formed or divided - and most stations in that sense handle no passengers at all.

The vocabulary has to establish that first, because everything else in the document depends on it.

It then names the kinds of station and their functions - the passenger station, the freight station, the marshalling yard, the intermediate and district stations, the technical station - and their component parts: the tracks and their designation and use, the yards and groups, the humps and the retarders that sort wagons by gravity, the platforms, the loading and unloading facilities, the depots and the servicing installations.

And it names the elements of a terminal, which is the harder concept: the arrangement of several stations and connecting lines serving one city or one node, through which trains pass between routes without reversing where the layout allows and with a great deal of shunting where it does not.

These are the terms in which railway operating rules, capacity studies and infrastructure projects are written, and in a network the size of China's the vocabulary has to be common or the plans of two bureaux cannot be combined. Issued on 12 August 1994 and in force since 1 May 1995.

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This preview omits tables, figures, formulas and parts of the technical clauses. The complete document — 22 pages — is available in the English PDF.

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