CEN/TC 256/SC 1/WG 50 - Monitoring and treatment of rails

This document specifies the procedures of visual testing and ultrasonic testing of rail welds in track for rail profiles meeting the requirements of EN 13674-1.
This document specifies the principles for testing procedures for manufactured welds. This document defines the procedure for repair welds and joint welds. This document does not define the number of welds to be tested.
This document is not concerned with the approval of the welding procedure.

This document specifies the defect management system the infrastructure manager uses to control the risk of severe accidents due to degradation of internal or surface defects on rails complying with EN 13674-1, EN 13674-2, EN 13674-4 and EN 15689:2009 (excluding grooved rails EN 14811 - which need alternative systems).

This document defines the technical requirements and measurements for the acceptance of works for longitudinal and/or transverse reprofiling of railway rail heads in plain line, switches and crossings and expansion devices.
This document applies to Vignole rails of 46 kg/m and above according to EN 13674-1.

This document is applicable to testing of rails installed in track for detecting rail surface cracks. This document applies to testing equipment in inspection-trains or reprofiling machines and manual systems. This document specifies the requirement for testing principles and systems in order to produce comparable results in respect to the location and the characteristic of surface cracks. This document is not aiming to give any guidelines for managing the result of eddy current rail testing. This document does not define the requirements for vehicle acceptance. This document is not concerned with production testing of rails in a production plant. This document applies only to rail profiles meeting the requirements of EN 13674-1.

This document defines the requirements for qualification of the personnel who plan, carry out and supervise non-destructive testing in industrial sector - Railway maintenance infrastructure, on rails in switches, crossings and plain track.
Safety of staff working on or near the railway track is part of the infrastructure manager safety management system and is not part of this standard.
This document applies only to rail profiles meeting the requirements of EN 13674 1 and EN 13674 2.

This document specifies the procedure for planning and execution of rail reprofiling work including description of rail surface defects. It concerns work in both plain lines and switches and crossings generally done with machines according to the EN 14033 series and EN 15746 series.
It applies to vignole railway rails of 46 kg/m and above according to EN 13674-1.

This part of this European Standard specifies the NDT methods used to detect internal and surface rail defects and the suitability of each method for the detection and evaluation of typical rail defects of rails installed in track.
This part of this European Standard does not specify the assessment criteria of rail defects and the derived actions.
This part of this European Standard applies only to rail profiles meeting the requirements of EN 13674-1.

This European Standard applies to testing of rails installed in track for detecting internal discontinuities.
This part applies to testing equipment fitted to dedicated test vehicles or manually-propelled devices. This European Standard does not define the requirements for vehicle acceptance. This part of the standard does not apply to ultrasonic testing of rails in a production plant.
The European Standard specifies the requirements for testing principles and systems in order to produce comparable results with regard to location, type and size of discontinuities in rails. This European Standard is not aiming to give any guidelines for managing the result of ultrasonic rail testing.
This European Standard applies only to rail profiles meeting the requirements of EN 13674-1.

This European Standard lays down the technical requirements and the measurements to be made for the acceptance of work for reprofiling longitudinally and/or transversely the heads of railway rails in switches, crossings and expansion devices.
For acceptance purposes two classes of longitudinal profile and three classes of transverse profile tolerance are defined.
It applies to reprofiled vignole railway rails and associated switch rails 46 kg/m and above.

This European Standard specifies the technical requirements and the measurements to be made for the acceptance of work to reprofile longitudinally and/or transversely the heads of railway rails. For acceptance purposes, two classes of longitudinal profile and three classes of transverse profile tolerance are defined.
Annexes describe procedures to verify reference instruments to be used for these measurements as well as methods to approve non-reference instruments to be used for measurements.
This European Standard applies to reprofiled vignole railway rails 46 kg/m and above.
It does not apply for acoustic rail reprofiling.
A form of acceptance documentation that may be used is given in Annex E.