Deliverable

This European Standard specifies the requirements for demountable machines and trailers, including road-rail trailers – henceforward referred to as ‘machines’. This European Standard specifies the requirements to deal with the common hazards during transport, assembly and installation, commissioning, travelling and working on track, use including setting, programming, and process changeover, operation, cleaning, fault finding, maintenance and de-commissioning of the machines and associated equipment when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable; see Clause [tba]. This European standard deals with the requirements for the machine to be declared conformant by the manufacturer to the Machinery Directive (2006/42/EC), see Annex ZA, together with additional specific technical railway requirements. These machines are not designed nor intended to operate signalling and control systems and are only designed and intended to work and travel under special operating conditions specifically designated by the infrastructure manager. These machines are not classified as ‘vehicles’ as defined in the Interoperability Directive 2008/57/EC and are not permitted to run on the railway lines open to normal traffic. Other machines are dealt with in other European Standards; see Annex [tba]. Additional requirements can apply for travelling and working on infrastructures with narrow gauge or broad gauge lines, lines of urban rail, railways utilising other than adhesion between the rail and rail wheels and underground infrastructures. This European Standard is also applicable to machines and associated equipment that in working mode are partly supported on the ballast or the formation. The common hazards dealt with include the general hazards presented by the machines, as well as the hazards presented by the following specific machine functions: - excavation; - ballast tamping, ballast cleaning, ballast regulating, ballast consolidating; - track renewal; - rail maintenance; - craning; - catenary renewal / maintenance; - maintenance of the components of the infrastructure; - inspection and measurement of the components of the infrastructure; - tunnel inspection / ventilation; - shunting; - emergency rescue and recovery; This European Standard does not apply to the following: - requirements for quality of the work or performance of the machine; - specific requirements established by the railway infrastructure operator for the use of machines, which will be the subject of negotiation; - separate equipment temporarily mounted on machines. - machines that utilise the catenary for traction purposes; - hazards due to air pressure caused by the passing of high-speed trains at more than 200 km/h This European Standard does not establish additional requirements for the following: - operation subject to special rules, e.g. potentially explosive atmospheres; - hazards due to natural causes, e.g. earthquake, lightning, flooding; - working methods; - operation in severe working conditions requiring special measures, e.g. work in tunnels or in cuttings, extreme environmental conditions (below – 20 °C or above + 40 °C), corrosive environments, contaminating environments, strong magnetic fields; - hazards due to errors in software; - hazards occurring when used to handle suspended loads which may swing freely. The maximum speed allowed for these machines is likely to be limited by the infrastructure manager; compliance with the clauses of this standard does not confer permission for machines to travel at this speed. It is assumed that a finished standard automotive chassis used as a host for a demountable machine will offer an acceptable safety level for its designed functions before conversion. This specific aspect is not dealt with in this European Standard.