1.1 General
This document defines the specific technical railway requirements for travelling and working with railbound machines and other vehicles - referred to as machines - used for construction, maintenance and inspection of track, structures, track formation and fixed electric traction equipment as specified in prEN 14033 1:2024.
This document applies to all machines working exclusively on the railway (utilizing adhesion between the rail and rail wheels) and used for construction, maintenance and inspection of track, structures, infrastructure and fixed electric traction equipment.
This document applies to machines that are intended to operate signalling and control systems.
NOTE Other rail mounted railway maintenance and infrastructure inspection machines are dealt with in other European Standards, see Technical Report CEN/TR 17498:2020.
This document is applicable to 1 435 mm nominal track gauge. Some requirements may be applicable for working on infrastructures with nominal narrow track gauge or nominal broad track gauge lines, tramways, railways utilizing other than adhesion between the rail and rail wheels and underground infrastructures.
This document covers the safety requirements for the railway specific problems for travelling and working on different infrastructures. The application of these requirements will be the subject of a verification procedure, which is not part of this document. Annex I is included for information for the potential content of a verification procedure. In all cases an authorization to work is needed to access the infrastructure.
This document is also applicable for machines that in working position are partly supported on the ballast or the formation.
This document does not apply to:
- the requirements with regard to the quality of work, including the related measuring methods, and the performance of the machine; )
- the specific requirements established by each railway infrastructure manager for the use of machines which will be the subject of negotiation between the manufacturer and the machine keeper.
This document does not deal with the following additional requirements:
- working methods;
- operation in severe working conditions requiring special measures (e.g. work in tunnels or in cuttings, extreme environmental conditions such as corrosive conditions, tropical conditions, contaminating conditions, strong magnetic fields);
- operation subject to special rules (e.g. potentially explosive atmospheres);
- hazards due to errors in software;
- hazards occurring when used to handle suspended loads which may swing freely;
- hazards due to wind pressure greater than normal e.g. pressures caused by the passing of trains at speed in excess of 190 km/h.
1.2 Validity of this European Standard
This document applies to all machines that are ordered one year after the publication date of this European Standard.
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