What is BS EN 17343 about?
BS EN 17343 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.
BS EN 17343 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.
NOTE: BS EN 17343 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
NOTE: BS EN 17343 does not include terms and definitions related to:
- Control command and signaling
- Operation
- Geographical aspects.
Who is BS EN 17343 for?
BS EN 17343 on terms and definitions for railway system is useful for:
- Railway engineer
- Railway authority
Why should you use BS EN 17343?
Terms and definitions for rail networks and rail vehicles are necessary for the easy understanding of terminology by railway engineers as well as railway authorities.
BS EN 17343 helps you to minimize misunderstandings, effort, and time-related to term definition during new standard preparation or revision, translation effort, and errors arising from the translation process.
Several of the terms used in the field of rail systems have had different meanings in different languages and at different periods, BS EN 17343 brings together a consensus of opinion by those charged with its drafting as to the most effective unambiguous definitions for future use.
Overall, BS EN 17343 guides you with the terminologies related to the railway vehicle that help the rail industry apply these terms to all documents such as standards, recommended practices, standard operating practices, standard maintenance practices, rail agency policies, and procedures, and agency rule books.