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RAE/1/-/8 - Railway Applications - Vehicle/Track Interaction

Sector: Manufacturing

Categories: Surfaces. Properties | Transport. Rail | Railway engineering. General | Trailing stock | Vibration and shock. Human beings | Rails and railway components | Railway/cableway construction and maintenance equipment | Railway rolling stock. General

Overview: Under the direction of RAE/1, is responsible for the UK input to CEN/TC 256/WG 10.

Committee standards activity

In Progress (11)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.

ISO/NP 24580-1 Railway applications — Derailment detection systems — Part 1: General vocabulary

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules

Proposal begins : 2024-10-23
Proposal
C07/2023 – WG07 Registration PWI CENTS Ride comfort UR CEN/TS XXX “Railway applications – Ride Comfort for Passengers in Trams and Metros -- Measurement and evaluation”

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Engineering | Railway engineering | Railway engineering. General | Railway engineering. Materials and components

Proposal begins : 2023-02-14
Proposal
BS ISO 18318 Railway applications — Wheel-rail contact geometry parameters — Definitions and methods for evaluation

Categories: Surfaces. Properties | Railway rolling stock. General

Approval begins : 2025-04-22
Approval
BS EN 15654-1 Railway Applications - Measurement of wheel and axle loads. Part 1: Interoperable "In-service" rail vehicles

Categories: Unclassified documents

Approval begins : 2017-12-21
Approval
BS EN 15528 Railway applications - Line categories for managing the interfacebetween load limits of vehicles and infrastructure

Categories: Unclassified documents

Proposal begins :
Proposal
BS EN 14363-5 EN 14363-5 Railway applications. Testing and simulation for the acceptance of running characteristics of railway vehicles operated on the heavy rail network. Part 5: Calculations/Simulations

Categories: Railway rolling stock. General

Public comment begins : 2025-06-19
Public comment
BS EN 14363-4 EN 14363-4 Railway applications. Testing and simulation for the acceptance of running characteristics of railway vehicles operated on the heavy rail network. Part 4: On-track testing

Categories: Railway rolling stock. General

Public comment begins : 2025-06-19
Public comment
BS EN 14363-3 EN 14363-3 Railway applications. Testing and simulation for the acceptance of running characteristics of railway vehicles operated on the heavy rail network. Part 3: Stationary tests not obligatory on a European level

Categories: Railway rolling stock. General

Public comment begins : 2025-06-19
Public comment
BS EN 14363-2 EN 14363-2 Railway applications. Testing and simulation for the acceptance of running characteristics of railway vehicles operated on the heavy rail network. Part 2: Safety against derailment on twisted track

Categories: Railway rolling stock. General

Public comment begins : 2025-06-19
Public comment
BS EN 14363-1 EN 14363-1 Railway applications. Testing and simulation for the assessment of running characteristics of railway vehicles operated on the heavy rail network. Part 1: General

Categories: Railway rolling stock. General

Public comment begins : 2025-06-19
Public comment
Published (12)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.

PD CEN/TS 17843:2022 Railway applications. Investigations on vehicles to quantify track loading in curve radii below 250 m

Categories: Railway rolling stock. General

Published standard begins : 2022-10-28
Published standard
PD CEN/TR 17792:2022 Railway Applications. Wheel-rail contact geometry parameters. Technical report and background information about EN 15302

Categories: Surfaces. Properties | Railway rolling stock. General

Published standard begins : 2022-03-08
Published standard
PD CEN/TR 17039:2017 Railway applications. Technical Report about the revision of EN 14363

Categories: Railway rolling stock. General

Published standard begins : 2017-03-08
Published standard
PD CEN/TR 15654-3:2019 Railway applications. Measurement of vertical forces on wheels and wheelsets. Approval and verification of on track measurement sites for vehicles in service

Categories: Railway rolling stock. General

Published standard begins : 2019-05-08
Published standard
BS EN 16235:2023 Railway applications. Testing for the acceptance of running characteristics of railway vehicles. Freight wagons. Conditions for dispensation of freight wagons with defined characteristics from on-track tests according to EN 14363

Categories: Trailing stock

Published standard begins : 2023-11-27
Published standard
BS EN 15839:2024 Railway applications. Testing and simulation for the acceptance of running characteristics of railway vehicles. Running safety under longitudinal compressive force

Categories: Trailing stock

Published standard begins : 2024-10-17
Published standard
BS EN 15654-2:2019 Railway applications. Measurement of vertical forces on wheels and wheelsets. Test in workshop for new, modified and maintained vehicles

Categories: Railway rolling stock. General

Published standard begins : 2019-04-15
Published standard
BS EN 15654-1:2018+A1:2023 Railway applications. Measurement of vertical forces on wheels and wheelsets. On-track measurement sites for vehicles in service

Categories: Railway rolling stock. General

Published standard begins : 2023-07-03
Published standard
BS EN 15528:2021 Railway applications. Line categories for managing the interface between load limits of vehicles and infrastructure

Categories: Transport. Rail | Trailing stock

Published standard begins : 2021-12-15
Published standard
BS EN 15302:2021 Railway applications. Wheel-rail contact geometry parameters. Definitions and methods for evaluation

Categories: Surfaces. Properties | Railway rolling stock. General

Published standard begins : 2021-10-29
Published standard
Withdrawn (14)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.

BS EN 16235:2013 Railway application. Testing for the acceptance of running characteristics of railway vehicles. Freight wagons. Conditions for dispensation of freight wagons with defined characteristics from on-track tests according to EN 14363

Categories: Trailing stock

Withdrawn begins : 2023-11-27
Withdrawn
BS EN 15839:2012+A1:2015 Railway applications. Testing for the acceptance of running characteristics of railway vehicles. Freight wagons. Testing of running safety under longitudinal compressive forces

Categories: Trailing stock

Withdrawn begins : 2024-10-17
Withdrawn
BS EN 15839:2012 Railway applications. Testing for the acceptance of running characteristics of railway vehicles. Freight wagons. Testing of running safety under longitudinal compressive forces

Categories: Trailing stock

Withdrawn begins : 2015-11-20
Withdrawn
BS EN 15687:2010 Railway applications. Testing for the acceptance of running characteristics of freight vehicles with static axle loads higher than 225 kN and up to 250 kN

Categories: Railway rolling stock. General

Withdrawn begins : 2016-04-04
Withdrawn
BS EN 15686:2010 Railway applications. Testing for the acceptance of running characteristics of railway vehicles with cant deficiency compensation system and/or vehicles intended to operate with higher cant deficiency than stated in EN 14363:2005, Annex G

Categories: Railway rolling stock. General

Withdrawn begins : 2016-04-04
Withdrawn
BS EN 15654-1:2018 Railway applications. Measurement of vertical forces on wheels and wheelsets. On-track measurement sites for vehicles in service

Categories: Railway rolling stock. General

Withdrawn begins : 2023-07-03
Withdrawn
BS EN 15528:2015 Railway applications. Line categories for managing the interface between load limits of vehicles and infrastructure

Categories: Trailing stock | Transport. Rail

Withdrawn begins : 2021-12-15
Withdrawn
BS EN 15528:2008+A1:2012 Railway applications. Line categories for managing the interface between load limits of vehicles and infrastructure

Categories: Transport. Rail | Trailing stock

Withdrawn begins : 2016-01-12
Withdrawn
BS EN 15528:2008 Railway applications. Line categories for managing the interface between load limits of vehicles and infrastructure

Categories: Transport. Rail | Trailing stock

Withdrawn begins : 2013-01-30
Withdrawn
BS EN 15302:2008+A1:2010 Railway applications. Method for determining the equivalent conicity

Categories: Surfaces. Properties | Railway rolling stock. General

Withdrawn begins : 2021-10-29
Withdrawn