Innerbetriebliches, schienengebundenes Transportsystem

The invention relates to a rail-bound transport system comprising self-propelled vehicles running along a rail system, fixed rail sections and movable rail sections, shunted wagons, lifts, turntables, etc. The rail-bound transport system is characterized by the vehicles having at least one bumper to prevent them travelling over open rail ends and having at least a stopping element for the fixed and movable open rail ends, which are movable between an operating point at which they stop the vehicle on contact with the bumper, and an external operating point at which they permit the passage of the vehicle, the transition of the contact element from operating point to external operating point taking place by means of an operating equipment, when a moving rail end is positioned in relation to the open fixed rail end such that a vehicle can travel over the joint position.