INSTRUCTIONS FOR RAILROAD TRAFFIC AND SWITCHING ON SOVIET RAILROADS

INSTRUKTSIIA PO DVIZHENIU POEZDOV I MANEVROVOI RABOTE NA ZHELEZNYKH DOROGAKH SOIUZA SSR

This handbook covers the following information: (1) Train traffic during automatic blocking; (2) Train traffic on sections equipped with centralized dispatching; (3) Train traffic during semiautomatic blocking; (4) Train traffic in an electrical rod system; (5) Train traffic with telephonic communication means; (6) Order of train traffic during interruption of the action of all established means of signaling and communication; (7) Traffic of maintenance trains (railway motor cars), fire trains, and auxiliary locomotives; (8) Train traffic (railway motor cars) during work production on railroad tracks and constructions; (9) Reception and departure of trains; (10) Operation of the train dispatcher; (11) Shunting operation at the stations; (12) Sequence of distributing warnings; (13) Reception and departure of trains under conditions where normal operations of the automatic blocking system are suspended at the stations; (14) Train traffic with demarcated time. The appendices are: (1) A list of solutions for train departures from the station with various means of signaling and communication during train traffic; (2) Norms and fundamental regulations for securing rolling stock by means of brake shoes and hand brakes; (3) Procedures for setting up in the train wagon loads which require exceptional caution and special rolling stock. Finally; (4) The sequence of trolley traffic.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract only is available in English, original untranslated as of November 1976.
• Corporate Authors:

  USSR Ministry of Railways

  Novo-Basmannaya, Ulitsa 2
  Moscow,   USSR 
• Publication Date: 1973

Language

• Russian

Media Info

• Pagination: 303 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic train protection; Block signal systems; Centralized traffic control; Disasters and emergency operations; Dispatching; Freight terminals; Handbooks; High capacity cars; Intermodal terminals; Maintenance of way; Operating rules; Oversize loads; Railroad terminals; Railroad yards; Signaling
• Uncontrolled Terms: Emergency procedures
• Old TRIS Terms: Block systems; High and wide loads; Operating strategies; Train meets
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Railroads; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00130239
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Federal Railroad Administration
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Nov 23 1977 12:00AM