Railway applications - Testing for the acceptance of running characteristics of railway vehicles - Freight wagons - Testing of running safety under longitudinal compressive forces
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This European Standard defines the acceptance process to be followed by vehicles that are operated in trains capable of generating high longitudinal forces and that are susceptible, as a result of their design, to derailment as a result of being subjected to these forces. This European Standard applies to the following types of freight wagons equipped with standard ends as defined in this EN: - single wagons; - permanently coupled units with side buffers and screw couplers between the vehicles; - permanently coupled units with diagonal buffers with screw couplers between the vehicles; - articulated units with three 2-axle bogies; - low-floor wagons with eight or more axles (e.g. rolling road wagon 1)). The following vehicles are not currently in the scope of this European Standard: - wagons which are not subjected to extensive Longitudinal compressive forces due to their operational environment (as train composition, braking regime, track layout); - wagons with automatic couplers 2); wagons with 3-axle bogies 3); - permanently coupled units with a bar coupler between the vehicles 4); - articulated wagons with more than three 2-axle bogies.
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