SR EN 15955-1:2025

This document specifies the requirements for demountable machines and trailers, including road-rail trailers - henceforward referred to as ‘machines’. NOTE Trailers, including road-rail trailers, are considered as machines because they are moved along the track by powered machines. This document specifies the requirements to deal with the common hazards presented by their use on the railway during transport, assembly and installation, commissioning, travelling and working on track, use including setting, programming, and process changeover, operation, cleaning, fault finding, maintenance and de-commissioning of the machines and associated equipment when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable. These machines are not designed nor intended to operate signalling and control systems and are only designed and intended to work and travel under special operating conditions in accordance with those permitted by the infrastructure managers. These machines are not permitted to run on railway lines open to normal traffic. NOTE Other rail mounted