The car handling facilities are specialistic ones and serve for displacing and positioning wagons or marshalling trains, mainly at loading and unloading points.
The switching facility is made up of:
- capstan provided with stepless speed control and load limiter
- driving rope
- supporting rolls
- sets of pulleys
- switching truck (except switching of wagons by tow hook)
- supply and control systems with monitoring (light and sound signaling), etc.
Parameters and technical data of the switching facilities are adapted to individual needs, requirements and conditions of a User.
The wagon switching facilities of the TRANSKOL company meet the requirements No. PW-96 of the Chief Inspector of Railway Technical Supervision (now: Transport Technical Supervision).
Design of the wagon switching facilities meets European standards.