 In order to achieve the aspiration for a capacity of 11,000 goods wagons per day, Maschen was equipped from the beginning with the most modern shunting technology available in the 1970s.The composition of incoming goods trains was transmitted to Maschen before they arrived, so that the hitherto usual practice of handing over the trains in the reception sidings could be done away with.Using the data, train-splitting lists were created, these formed the working basis for the sequence control unit ("Ablaufsteuerrechner" or ASR).