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BS EN 16116-2:2024

BS EN 16116-2:2024

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Railway applications. Design requirements for steps, handrails and associated access for staff – Freight wagons

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BSI 2024 30
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This document is applicable to all types of heavy rail freight wagons. This document specifies the minimum requirements for ergonomic and structural integrity of steps and handrails used together to give staff access. It does not cover ladders, top platforms and top gangways. It specifies in particular the required free spaces necessary for handrails below buffer, for shunter’s stand, for steps and handrails. This document also specifies their dimensions, positions, limits for durability and functionality. It also specifies the general requirements for the access to tail lights.

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PDF Pages PDF Title
2 undefined
5 European foreword
6 Introduction
7 1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
8 4 Steps and handrails
4.1 General requirements
4.2 Steps
4.2.1 General
9 4.2.2 Shunter’s step
10 Figure 1 — Shunter’s step
11 Figure 2 — Examples for grating
12 4.2.3 Other steps
4.3 Handrails
4.3.1 General
4.3.2 Handrail below buffer
13 Figure 3 — Positions of handrails below buffer
Figure 4 — Position of handrail below buffer when using automatic coupler together with side buffers
4.3.3 Other handrails
14 5 Shunter’s stand
5.1 General
15 Figure 5 — Shunter’s stand
5.2 Shunter’s stand at wagons with end wall boards
16 Figure 6 — Shunter’s stand at wagons with end wall boards
5.3 Shunter’s stand with tiltable handrail
17 Figure 7 — Shunter’s stand with tiltable handrail
18 5.4 Shunter’s stand for special case flat wagons with fixed handrails
5.5 Steps for gangways and end platforms
6 Reserved spaces
6.1 General
6.2 Space for shunting staff operation
19 Figure 8 — Reserved space above left end step
20 Figure 9 — Reserved space above the top access step of the platforms and gangways
6.3 Clearances for tail light
21 Figure 10 — Required dimensions and clearance for tail light brackets and access
22 Annex A (informative) Gangways and other access solutions
23 Figure A.1 — Example for gangway
24 Figure A.2 — Example for steps for access to the wagon floor
25 Figure A.3 — Example for steps at wagon end
26 Figure A.4 — Example for shunter’s stand at car carrier flat wagon
27 Annex ZA (informative) Relationship between this European Standard and the Essential Requirements of Directive (EU) 2016/797 aimed to be covered
Table ZA.1 — Correspondence between this European Standard, Commission Regulation (EU) No 321/2013 concerning the technical specification for interoperability relating to the subsystem ‘rolling stock — freight wagons of the rail system in the European…
28 Bibliography

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