This document specifies the requirements for validation of the structural design of rail vehicle bodies and body-mounted equipment, including interfaces to couplers and running gear.
This document is applicable to all kinds of rail vehicles designed to operate on conventional rail systems.
NOTE 1 Structural requirements for couplers and running gear are excluded from this document as they are given in referenced documents.
NOTE 2 The definition of rail vehicle follows the one given in EN 17343. Machines (e. g., on track machines, infrastructure inspection machines, road-rail machines) are not regarded as rail vehicles even if some of the requirements can be referred to by other application standards.
Legislation related to this standard
Directive (EU) 2016/797 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2016 on the interoperability of the rail system within the European Union (Text with EEA relevance)
PUBLISHED
EN 12663-1:2010+A2:2023
IN_DEVELOPMENT
prEN 12663-1 rev
00.60
Close of review
Jan 25, 2024