CE435 - Railway Engineering
This course is an Introduction to railway transport systems, railway terminologies, Railways
in Saudi Arabia, dynamic aspects of train motion (train speed, power, and
acceleration requirements), track components, vertical and horizontal
alignments, railway yards, stations and platforms, and railway traffic
control and signalling.
Students completing this course successfully will be able to:
1. Recognize rail transport systems.
2. Identify rail track components.
3. Analyze the aspects of dynamics of train motion.
4. Demonstrate basic concepts for geometric design of railway track.
5. Identify various elements and synthesiss of railway yards and stations.
6. Define the main concepts of railway signalling.