Covers day-to-day station and yard functions — shunting operations, yard marshalling, platform length planning for handling long trains (like 22-coach LHB rakes), and safety provisions like catch sidings on gradients falling toward a station.
Real Exam Fact
- Planning platform length to handle a long train (e.g. 22-coach LHB plus a VPU/SLR) is a real, calculable engineering-operations problem, not just a rule of thumb.
- A catch siding is specifically provided when the gradient falling toward a station section is steeper than a defined threshold — a precise, real safety-engineering rule.
Content Status
Draft note, grounded in real official syllabus text found via research but not yet cross-checked against the primary RBE PDF directly. Treat as study-aid only until verified.