BS EN 15273-1-2013 Railway applications - Gauges Part 1 General - Common rules for infrastructure and rolling stock

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1、BSEN15273-1:2013BSIStandardsPublicationRailwayapplications—GaugesPart1:General—CommonrulesforinfrastructureandrollingstockBSEN15273-1:2013BRITISHSTANDARDNationalforewordThisBritishStandardistheUKimplementationofEN15273-1:2013.ItsupersedesBSEN15273-1:2009whichiswithdrawn

2、.TheUKcommitteedrawsusers’attentiontothedistinctionbetweennormativeandinformativeelements,asdefinedinClause3oftheCEN/CENELECInternalRegulations,Part3.Normative:Requirementsconveyingcriteriatobefulfilledifcompliancewiththedocumentistobeclaimedandfromwhichnodeviationispermi

3、tted.Informative:Informationintendedtoassisttheunderstandingoruseofthedocument.Informativeannexesdonotcontainrequirements,exceptasoptionalrequirements,andarenotmandatory.Forexample,atestmethodmaycontainrequirements,butthereisnoneedtocomplywiththeserequirementstoclaimcom

4、pliancewiththestandard.WhenroundedvaluesrequireunitconversionforuseintheUK,usersareadvisedtouseequivalentvaluesroundedtothenearestwholenumber.Theuseofabsolutevaluesforconvertedunitsshouldbeavoidedinthesecases.Forthevaluesusedinthisstandard:80km/hhasanequivalentvalueof50

5、mile/hGaugingpracticesusedinGreatBritainaredocumentedinRailwayGroupStandards,publishedfortheGBmainlinerailwayindustrybyRailSafetyandStandardsBoardLimited(RSSB),www.rssb.co.uk.RailwayGroupStandardsarefreelyavailablefromwww.rgsonline.co.uk.ThegaugingpracticesusedinGreatBr

6、itaindivergesignificantlyfromtheInternationalUnionofRailways(UIC)gaugingpracticesusedinmuchoftherestofEurope.AlthoughBSEN15273Railwayapplications—Gaugesdefinesanumberofdifferentgaugingmethodologiesandapplications,theunderlyingphilosophyisthatoftheUICmethodofgauging,whichd

7、ependsontheuseofreferenceprofiles.Itshouldbenoted,therefore,thatBSEN15273andRailwayGroupStandardssometimesusethesameterms,butwithdifferentmeanings.Theterminologyusedinonecannotthereforebeusedtointerprettherequirementsoftheother.NationalAnnexNAgivesthedefinitionsusedinGrea

8、tBritainforsomeofthekeytermsusedinBSEN15273.ExceptwhereadecisionhasbeenmadetoadoptstandardEuropeangaugesandtou