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Special Railways

Special Railways
Major Transportation Engineering
Faculty Faculty of Transportation Engineering
Department Railway Construction
Lead Lecturer Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eng. Stoyo Todorov

This is a complex discipline which acquaints students with the design, construction and operation of: cargo and passenger cable railways and rope lines; monorail transport and rack railways; magnetic-cushion railways; urban rail transport - trams and underground. This knowledge is obtained through learning of: design of their horizontal and vertical levelling; combination of the special railways with other means of transport into a unified transport system; the main technologies for their construction. After graduation students are able to design rope lines, funicular railways, tramways, underground, and other special railways.

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