Where are the important marshalling and stabling yards?

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Where are the important marshalling and stabling yards?

July 17, 2019, 12:22 PM

Most of the bigger stations that are junctions or termini for various routes have large yards for stabling and marshalling rakes. E.g., Chennai Central homes rakes for many trains originating from there. Pune has a fairly large yard, as does Ernakulam. The Juhi marshalling yard is pretty big as well.

Mughalsarai is the biggest marshalling yard in Asia, capable of handling over 6,000 wagons a day. It may also be the biggest marshalling yard in the world; it appears [need confirmation] that the only one bigger was the one at Ulm, Germany, which was destroyed in Allied bombings in the second world war.

A (partial) list of marshalling or classification yards follows [12/01]. Those marked with ‘?’ are based on uncertain information. Numbers indicate the numbers of tracks available for classification operations. ‘Flat’ indicates a classification yard known to be flat (not a hump yard). Marshalling / classification yards (especially hump yards) for freight wagons have been in decline since the 1980s with the increasing tendency to use block rakes for goods. (See below for a list of closed yards.)

Ambala Cantt.?
Andal (mechanized hump yard with retarders)
Bardhaman (flat)
Bayappanahalli
Bhilai (mechanized hump yard with retarders)
Bhusawal (16+14)
Bokaro Steel City (40, may have retarders?)
Bondamunda (27, mechanized hump yard with retarders)
Chitpur (flat)
Cuttack?
Dankuni (flat)
Daund
Erode?
Ghorpadi (flat; hump closed)
Hirarpur?
Itarsi?
Jamshedpur (mechanized hump yard with retarders)
Jasai (near Uran; flat; for petroleum tankers)
Juhi (18)
Kalyan? (for Mumbai)
Kurla (for Mumbai)
Mangalore?
Marippalam? (for Vishakhapatnam).
Maula Ali? (BG)
Mughalsarai (48+37, mechanized hump yard with retarders)
Naihati (18) (flat; hump yard closed)
New Katni Jn.
Nimpura (mechanized hump yard with retarders)
Pune
Ratlam?
Sanatnagar (for Secunderabad)
Shalimar
Surat?
Tikiapara
Tondiarpet Dn (hump)
Tughlakabad (mechanized hump yard with retarders)
Vijayawada (mechanized hump yard with retarders)
Wadala (for Mumbai)
Wadi
Waltair (Vishakhapatnam)
ER’s Dhanbad and Asansol divisions’ coal yards have small hump yards, (Pathardih, Kusunda, Kathrasgarh, Sitarampur, etc.), which are becoming obsolete as coal (as is the case with other freight) now moves increasingly in block rakes.