SR EN 15227+A1:2011

Railway applications - Crashworthiness requirements for railway vehicle bodies

This European Standard applies to new designs of locomotives and passenger carrying rolling stock as defined in categories C-I to C-IV of Clause 4 taking into consideration the recommendations given in Annex E on the application of the standard (migration rule). It is intended to protect vehicle occupants, through the preservation of structural integrity, and does not extend to other railway employees and customers who are not in vehicles, or to third parties. The specified requirements relate to the technical and operational conditions of use that prevail in the CEN member countries. The design of new vehicles for use in passenger trains is based on operations with compatible rolling stock that also meet this standard. It is recognised that operational requirements will require new crashworthy and existing non-crashworthy vehicles to exist in the same train unit but such combinations of vehicles are not required to comply with this European Standard. The requirements apply to the vehicle body, and to those mechanical elements directly associated with it that may be used to ab

39.99

Status : Withdrawn
Approval date : 4/29/2011
Withdrawal date : 6/30/2020
Number of pages : 42
ICS : 45.060.01 Railway rolling stock in general
Technical Committee : 146 - Railway applications

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