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Marshalling Kiosk

07/27/2012 7:34 AM

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Can anybody please tell me what is the difference between Marshalling box, and cubicle? Are they both control panels?

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Re: Marshalling Kiosk:

07/27/2012 7:56 AM

A1) Size.

A2) No, because one would only really expect terminals and connections inside it.

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07/27/2012 11:41 AM

Isn't a cubicle where office workers sit?

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07/27/2012 6:27 PM

I don't have an answer, but is this to do with the small cabins in railway sidings and marshaling-yards/switch-yards?

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Re: Marshalling Kiosk

07/27/2012 6:39 PM

I think we're marshaling electrical cables in this case.

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Re: Marshalling Kiosk

07/27/2012 7:30 PM

The difference is semantics, but neither are "control panels" in that the concept is not to have "control" devices in them. The concept of "marshalling" areas (boxes, cubicles, cabinets, enclosures, compartments etc.) is to have a single place where field wiring comes into a system in one designated area and is then connected to control elements in ANOTHER area (i.e. your control panels) in a more neat and organized fashion.

So then you get down to the semantics differences of "kiosk", "box", "cabinet", "cubicle" , "compartment" etc. etc.

But if they are being used in the same project, I would conject that a "marshalling cubicle" is an area WITHIN another enclosure or other piece of equipment that is set aside for marshalling of field connections,

whereas a "marshalling box" is a stand alone box dedicated to the task.

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Re: Marshalling Kiosk

07/29/2012 4:20 PM

PassingtonGreen noticed the wire/cable marshalling concept to railroad marshalling yards. See photo here in earlier thread on the same topic:

http://cr4.globalspec.com/thread/68470/Marshelling-Panel

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