BS EN 17343:2020

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,

• Zugsteuerung, Zugsicherung und Signal- gebung,

• operation,

• geographical aspects.