RAILWAY STATION, NBQ,ASSAM

ARCHITECTURAL THESIS

Submitted by

Rahul Choudhury

A/2247/2010

WHAT?
Railway Station
Hotels, Guest rooms and commercial area
River Front Development

Broad activities in the station building :

Primary Function

Secondary Function

Tertiary Function

Entering the
complex
Concourse area
Ticketing area
Information booth
Public facilities
Parcel facility

Refreshment area
Waiting rooms/retiring
rooms
Shopping
Community facilities

Administrative office
space
Basement level car
parking
Services
Foot over bridges
/subways

FLOW CHART FOR RAILWAY STATION

Train tracks

Platforms

Peripheral area

Transition area

Administrative area

Core Core

Main entrance

A. Peripheral Area

C. Administrative Area

Activities

Activities

Boarding
Loading and unloading
Maintenance

Area requirements

Platforms
Tracks
Workshops or vehicle service area

Working
Controlling traffic systems and functions
in the station

Area requirements

Management office
Traffic controlling office

B. Transitional Area

D. Core Area

Activities

Activities

Using public facilities

Walking to vehicles or walking around before
boarding
Shopping or eating

Area requirements

Public service facilities i.e. restrooms, public

lockers
Amenities i.e. Shops, restaurants and snack bars

Checking train schedule

Ticketing
Baggage handling
Gate check in
Waiting

Area requirements
Main hall

Information
Ticket office
Ticket counters with baggage check in
Seating or meeting point

PLATFORM AREA
Capacity
The capacity of platforms will assume in all instances the worst case scenario for the alighting and detraining of trains in a station. A center
platform will assume two 100% capacity trains detraining and evacuating from the platform at any given time. A side platform assumes one
100% capacity train detraining and evacuating from the platform at any given time.
Constants
Number of coaches in train
Each coach length
Full train capacity((75/coach)
Peak factor
Edge effect for each of the front and rear
Area occupied by per person

24 coaches
22.5m
1800
1.2
0.5m
0.8 SQM

Sizing of Side platform

Sizing of Island platform

Platform area required = 100% of train loadx0.8xpeak factor

= 1800x0.8x1.2
=1728 SQM

Platform area required = 2x100% of train loadx0.8xpeak factor

= 3600x0.8x1.2
=3456 SQM

Effective platform length=24x22.5m

=540 m

Effective platform length=24x22.5m

=540 m

Platform width required =area/length + edge effect

=1800/540+1
=4.3m

Platform width required =area/length + edge effect

=3456/540+1
=7.4m

Platform length provided =600m

Platform width provided =6m
Platform area provided =600x(6-edge effect)
=600x5
=3000SQM

Platform length provided =600m

Platform width provided =9m
Platform area provided =600x(6-edge effect)
=600x8
=4800SQM