Freight car marshalling yard

…A type of railway station that does not handle passengers or freight, but is used mainly to gather locomotives, passenger cars, and freight cars to form a train, or to shunt cars. They are broadly divided into passenger car marshalling yards, which mainly handle passenger cars, and freight car marshalling yards, which mainly handle freight cars, but a railroad depot can also be considered a type of marshalling yard. A passenger car marshalling yard is a facility that receives arriving passenger trains, inspects, repairs, and washes the cars, and stores and stores passenger cars until they are used again, and rearranges the cars. It consists of many lines, such as arrival lines, shunting lines, washing lines, disinfection lines, tailoring lines, repair lines, storage lines, reserve lines, and departure lines. …

*Some of the terminology used in reference to "freight car marshalling yards" is listed below.

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…鉄道の停車場の一種で，旅客や貨物の取扱いはせず，もっぱら機関車や客車，貨車を集めて一つの列車に仕立てたり，車両の入換えを行うために設けられた場所。客車の取扱いを主とする客車操車場と貨車の取扱いを主とする貨車操車場に大別されるが，車両基地も操車場の一種といえる。　客車操車場は到着旅客列車を受け取り，車両の検査，修繕，洗浄などを行うとともに，次に用いられるまでの客車の収容，留置，車両の編成替えなどを行う施設であり，到着線，組替線，洗浄線，消毒線，仕立検査線，修繕線，留置線，予備車線，出発線などの多数の線群で構成されている。…

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