BS EN 15746-2:2020
Railway applications. Track. Road-rail machines and associated equipment. General safety requirements
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2021-01-14
In Force
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| Available languages: | English |
| Summary: | This document specifies the significant hazards, hazardous
situations and events, common to self-propelled road-rail machines
- henceforward referred to as machines - and associated equipment,
arising due to the adaptation for their use on railway networks and
urban rail networks. These machines are intended for construction,
maintenance and inspection of the railway infrastructure, shunting
and emergency rescue vehicles, when they are used as intended and
under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the
manufacturer; see Clause 4. This document deals with the common
hazards during assembly and installation, commissioning, travelling
on and off track, use including setting, programming, and process
changeover, operation, cleaning, fault finding, maintenance and
de-commissioning of the machines. NOTE Specific measures for
exceptional circumstances are not dealt with in this document. They
can be subject to negotiation between manufacturer and the machine
operator. The common hazards dealt with include the general hazards
presented by the machines, also the hazards presented by the
following specific machine functions: a) excavation; b) ballast
tamping, ballast cleaning, ballast regulating, ballast
consolidating; c) track construction, renewal, maintenance and
repair; d) lifting; e) overhead contact line system renewal /
maintenance; f) maintenance of the components of the
infrastructure; g) inspection and measurement of the components of
the infrastructure; h) working in tunnels; i) shunting; j)
vegetation control; k) emergency rescue and recovery; during
commissioning, use, maintenance and servicing. For a road-rail
machine it is assumed that an EU road permissible host vehicle will
offer an accepted safety level for its designed basic functions
before conversion. Unless explicitly stated otherwise in a
particular clause this specific aspect is not dealt with in this
document. This document does not deal with: 1) requirements with
regard to the quality of work and the performance of the machine;
2) machines that utilize the contact line system for traction
purposes; 3) specific requirements established by a railway
Infrastructure Manager or Urban Rail Manager; 4) negotiations
between the manufacturer and the machine operator for additional or
alternative requirements; 5) requirements for use and travel of the
machine on public highway; 6) hazards due to air pressure caused by
the passing of high-speed trains at more than 190 km/h; 7)
requirements which could be necessary in case of use in extreme
conditions, such as extreme ambient temperatures (tropical or
polar); see 5.30; 8) highly corrosive or contaminating environment,
e.g. due to the presence of chemicals; 9) potentially explosive
atmospheres. Other special machines used on railway tracks are
dealt with in other European Standards, see Annex E.
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| CTN: | RAE/2 - RAE/2 |
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International Equivalence |
Identic EN 15746-2 |
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Reemplazo Normas |
Reemplaza a BS EN 15746-2:2010+A1:2011 |










