prEN 15273-2

Railway applications - Gauges - Part 2: Rolling Stock

This document is applicable to new vehicle designs, to modifications to existing vehicles and for checking existing vehicles to be used on another route or network.
This document contains:
- the rules for rolling stock for all defined gauges,
- the swept envelope calculation process used for defined dynamic gauges, absolute and comparative methods; process;
- the list of documents required to assess vehicle conformity to this standard.
This European standard is applicable to heavy rail vehicles using various track gauges. Other vehicles are outside the scope of this document, but the rules may be applied to them.
This European standard is not applicable to the gauges “S” and “T” for track gauge 1 520 mm.

Bahnanwendungen - Begrenzungslinien - Teil 2: Fahrzeuge

Applications ferroviaires - Gabarits - Partie 2 : Matériel roulant

Železniške naprave - Profili - 2. del: Vozna sredstva

General Information

• Status: Not Published
• Publication Date: 22-Jun-2025
• ICS: 45.020 - Railway engineering in general
• ICS: 45.060.01 - Railway rolling stock in general
• Technical Committee: CEN/TC 256 - Railway applications
• Drafting Committee: CEN/TC 256/WG 32 - Vehicle gauge
• Current Stage: 4060 - Closure of enquiry - Enquiry
• Start Date: 06-Jul-2023
• Due Date: 06-Apr-2023
• Completion Date: 06-Jul-2023
• Directive: 2016/797/EU - 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)
• Mandate: M/483 - Mandate for programming and standardisation addressed to the European standardisation bodies under directive 2008/57/EC in the field of the interoperability of the rail system within the European Union
• Mandate: M/591 - Standardisation request to the European Committee for Standardisation and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation as regards railway products in support of Directive (EU) 2016/797
• Ref Project: oSIST prEN 15273-2:2023 - Railway applications - Gauges - Part 2: Rolling Stock

Relations

• Revises: EN 15273-2:2013+A1:2016 - Railway applications - Gauges - Part 2: Rolling stock gauge
• Effective Date: 28-Jan-2023

Standards Content (Sample)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
oSIST prEN 15273-2:2023
01-maj-2023
Železniške naprave - Profili - 2. del: Vozna sredstva
Railway applications - Gauges - Part 2: Rolling Stock
Bahnanwendungen - Begrenzungslinien - Teil 2: Fahrzeuge
Applications ferroviaires - Gabarits - Partie 2 : Matériel roulant
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: prEN 15273-2
ICS:
45.060.01 Železniška vozila na splošno Railway rolling stock in
general
oSIST prEN 15273-2:2023 en,fr,de
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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DRAFT
EUROPEAN STANDARD
prEN 15273-2
NORME EUROPÉENNE

EUROPÄISCHE NORM

March 2023
ICS Will supersede EN 15273-2:2013+A1:2016
English Version

Railway applications - Gauges - Part 2: Rolling Stock
Applications ferroviaires - Gabarits - Partie 2 : Matériel Bahnanwendungen - Lichtraum - Teil 2: Fahrzeuge
roulant
This draft European Standard is submitted to CEN members for enquiry. It has been drawn up by the Technical Committee
CEN/TC 256.

If this draft becomes a European Standard, CEN members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations
which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration.

This draft European Standard was established by CEN in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other
language made by translation under the responsibility of a CEN member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC
Management Centre has the same status as the official versions.

CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,
Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway,
Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye and
United Kingdom.

Recipients of this draft are invited to submit, with their comments, notification of any relevant patent rights of which they are
aware and to provide supporting documentation.

Warning : This document is not a European Standard. It is distributed for review and comments. It is subject to change without
notice and shall not be referred to as a European Standard.


EUROPEAN COMMITTEE FOR STANDARDIZATION
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© 2023 CEN All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved Ref. No. prEN 15273-2:2023 E
worldwide for CEN national Members.

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Contents
European foreword .10
Introduction .12
1 Scope .13
2 Normative references .13
3 Terms and definitions .14
4 Symbols and abbreviations .14
5 Gauges and gauging processes .14
5.1 General principles for all defined gauges .14
5.2 Defined static and kinematic gauges .14
5.3 Dynamic methods .15
5.3.1 General principles .15
5.3.2 Dynamic method based on defined gauges .15
5.3.3 Absolute gauging process .15
5.3.4 Comparative gauging process .15
Annex A (normative) Defined kinematic gauges — common rules .16
A.1 General rules .
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