Wagonload freight

Single wagonload or wagon load transport is the transport of individual freight wagons by the railway, are summarized in the car with various shippers and receivers in a train.

We distinguish between a single-car traffic from the block train in which a fixedly compiled train from one point to another wrong. In intermodal transport, transport trains loading units with various shippers and receivers which can be partially reloaded even from train to train, but the trains are not resolved to himself; So also in this case it is not individual car traffic.

Expiration

The individual cars are picked up by most smaller locomotives for routes and shunting from the sidings to the consignor or used by the consignors free loading tracks. In most cases, multiple pick-ups are in a so-called control ride together and optionally also associated with deliveries.

At a central node, usually a marshalling yard, the incoming operator rides are broken down and grouped by goals to new freight trains. Larger trains to other nodes are thereby covered with heavy haul locomotives.

After passing through one or more nodes of the single-car will be delivered at the end again by an operator driving the receiver. Often this takes place simultaneously pick up one or more other cars.

Path and other data of a car used to be in paper documents that were backed up externally attached to the carriage, held. Today you go on to manage the car in computerized information systems, for which they are identified by wagon numbers, more and more by the transponder. Many cars are now equipped with GPS devices that allow the transport participants to pursue their course in real- time it.

Party

On single-car traffic more different parties are often significantly involved than in block trains. Loading track, connection web, via regional rail network and node stations not necessarily belong to the same infrastructure companies, and often operating rides and the distance trips between nodes not from same carrier to be done. The vehicles from the consignor, the consignee, one of the railway undertakings involved or a car rental include.

• Rail freight