Goods shed

The goods shed, and goods shed, goods or soil, is used for temporary storage of cargo in their transition between the road and the railway, or vice versa. Bulk cargoes other hand, are handled in purpose-built facilities or at the loading point.

Development and use of

Small cargo sheds are mostly located on the side of the reception building, while larger goods shed are usually stand-alone building. Often also a loading dock attached to the goods shed. The goods shed is accessed by a track on one side and a street on the other side, rare tracks lead directly into the interior of the building. For ease of handling, the base of the goods is at the height of the shed floor of road vehicles and railway carriages.

The goods shed previously housed the goods expedition, here everyone could give up his goods and also pick up; Here the goods were abandoned, which were too heavy for the mail transport. Accordingly, important as they were before the advent of trucks for the local economy because they actually controlled the flow of goods only in gear. However, most of general cargo has been accepted, also because the goods had to be transshipped en route usually several times. But the nature of the envelope was labor intensive; the necessary rationalization after the Second World War led, among other things, to 1961, the euro was introduced pallet pool. While this facilitated because envelope, but just remained the repeated reloading during transport.

Through reorganization and relocation of the cargo transport on the road almost all goods shed have become redundant. Chance of the goods shed were taken over by companies and used as siding. This re-use is, however, also become rare by deleting the operation of several stations, as the freight amount is usually regarded with such clients as too low. Most goods shed were broken off, can be used for various other purposes or that are vacant.