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The essence of iron shoe braking is the principle of Sliding friction along the rail surface to replace the rolling friction of the original wheel after the wheel is braked by the iron shoe on one or two rails. Due to the strong friction generated by the wheel pressing on the iron shoes, the vehicle experiences resistance, causing it to quickly lose its original speed and achieve its goal of stopping after a certain sliding distance. The use of iron shoes to brake vehicles not only reduces the labor intensity of the brake personnel, improves the shunting efficiency, but also strengthens the human body. Therefore, most of the manual iron shoes braking methods are popularized when the marshalling station and Bahnbetriebswerk use the lead line to roll off the shunting operation. In particular, the station with mechanization, small capacity and simple hump also uses iron shoe braking as the main braking tool to control vehicles.