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Railway applications - Infrastructure - Machines without rail wheels and associated equipment, intended for work on the railway infrastructure - Part 1: Technical requirements for working cen:proj:73045

Scope

This European Standard specifies the requirements for machines and associated equipment, without rail-wheels, designed and intended for work on railway infrastructure, henceforward referred to as ‘MWR’. This EN-standard also covers MWR intended for use on urban rail infrastructure. The types of MWR covered by this standard also include
- MWR with power driven mechanisms
- MWR with manually driven mechanisms
- hand held machines (with ability to attach to track):
NOTE 1 Railway maintenance and infrastructure inspection machines fitted with rail-wheels are dealt with in other European Standards, see Technical Report CEN/TR 17498:2020.
This European Standard specifies the requirements to deal with the common hazards during transport, assembly and installation, commissioning, working, including setting up, programming, and process changeover, operation, cleaning, fault finding, maintenance and decommissioning of MWR and associated equipment when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable.
The requirements set out in this European Standard are intended to control the hazards associated with the engineering aspects of MWR.
NOTE 2 It is anticipated that a safe system of work (see EN 16704) will additionally be required.