This standard BS EN 17343:2023 Railway application. General terms and definitions is classified in these ICS categories:
01.040.45 Railway engineering (Vocabularies)
45.060.01 Railway rolling stock in general
This document provides terms and definitions for rail networks and rail vehicles guided by track and wheels, both made of steel and/or other materials. This includes heavy rail and urban rail systems. This document is applicable as a reference for future European Standards and the revision of existing standards and represents a set of general technical terms and definitions. This document does not apply to specific applications such as: - track construction and maintenance machines not travelling on rails; - road-rail machines when not travelling on rails; - magnetic levitation transport networks and vehicles; - guided busways and guided busses; - non-public rail networks and vehicles, e.g. mine rail systems; - rail networks and vehicles exclusively for leisure, historical and tourist purposes, e.g. mountain-, field-, park-, cable rail systems, funiculars and theme park rides; - trolley busses. Not in the scope are terms and definitions related to: - control command and signalling, - operation, - geographical aspects.
