SIST EN 50367:2020/A2:2025

Railways applications - Fixed installations and rolling stock - Criteria to achieve technical compatibility between pantographs and overhead contact line

No change from existing scope of EN 50367:2020 + A1:2022
EN 50367 specifies requirements for the technical compatibility between pantographs and overhead contact lines, to achieve free access to the lines of the European railway network.

Bahnanwendungen - Zusammenwirken der Systeme - Technische Kriterien für das Zusammenwirken zwischen Stromabnehmer und Oberleitung für einen freien Zugang

Applications ferroviaires - Systèmes de captage de courant - Critères techniques d'interaction entre le pantographe et la ligne aérienne de contact (réalisation du libre accès)

Železniške naprave - Fiksni postroji in vozna sredstva - Kriteriji za doseganje tehnične združljivosti med odjemnikom toka in kontaktnim vodnikom - Dopolnilo A2

General Information

• Status: Published
• Public Enquiry End Date: 19-Sep-2024
• Publication Date: 13-May-2025
• ICS: 29.280 - Electric traction equipment
• Technical Committee: ŽEN - Electrical applications for railways
• Current Stage: 6060 - National Implementation/Publication (Adopted Project)
• Start Date: 20-Mar-2025
• Due Date: 25-May-2025
• Completion Date: 14-May-2025
• 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: EN 50367:2020/A2:2025 - Railways applications - Fixed installations and rolling stock - Criteria to achieve technical compatibility between pantographs and overhead contact line

Relations

• Amends: SIST EN 50367:2020 - Railway applications - Fixed installations and rolling stock - Criteria to achieve technical compatibility between pantographs and overhead contact line
• Effective Date: 01-Jun-2025

Standards Content (Sample)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-junij-2025
Železniške naprave - Fiksni postroji in vozna sredstva - Kriteriji za doseganje
tehnične združljivosti med odjemnikom toka in kontaktnim vodnikom - Dopolnilo
A2
Railways applications - Fixed installations and rolling stock - Criteria to achieve technical
compatibility between pantographs and overhead contact line
Bahnanwendungen - Zusammenwirken der Systeme - Technische Kriterien für das
Zusammenwirken zwischen Stromabnehmer und Oberleitung für einen freien Zugang
Applications ferroviaires - Systèmes de captage de courant - Critères techniques
d'interaction entre le pantographe et la ligne aérienne de contact (réalisation du libre
accès)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 50367:2020/A2:2025
ICS:
29.280 Električna vlečna oprema Electric traction equipment
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EUROPEAN STANDARD EN 50367
NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM August 2020
ICS 29.280 Supersedes EN 50367:2012 and all of its amendments
and corrigenda (if any)
In accordance with CENELEC/BT Decision D144/010, this consolidated version is purely
informal and is intended to be used by the CENELEC National Committees only.

This document includes Amendment 1, approved by CENELEC on 2022-08-15.
This document includes Amendment 2, approved by CENELEC on 2025-01-24.
The start and finish of text introduced or altered by amendment is indicated in the text by tags
!";#$ .
English Version
Railway applications - Fixed installations and rolling stock -
Criteria to achieve technical compatibility between pantographs
and overhead contact line
Applications ferroviaires - Systèmes de captage de courant Bahnanwendungen - Zusammenwirken der Systeme -
- Critères techniques d'interaction entre le pantographe et la Technische Kriterien für das Zusammenwirken zwischen
ligne aérienne de contact (réalisation du libre accès) Stromabnehmer und Oberleitung für einen freien Zugang
This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2020-07-27. CENELEC 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.
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same status as the official versions.
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Turkey and the United Kingdom.

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Ref. No. EN 50367:2020 E
EN 50367:2020 (E)
Contents Page
European foreword . 5
1 Scope . 6
2 Normative references . 6
3 Terms and definitions . 7
4 Symbols and abbreviations . 10
5 Geometry . 13
5.1 General . 13
5.2 Overhead contact line characteristics . 13
5.2.1 General . 13
5.2.2 Infrastructure gauge for free passage of pantograph . 13
5.2.3 Contact wire height . 14
5.2.4 Contact wire gradient . 14
5.2.5 Lateral deviation of contact wire . 14
5.2.6 Contact wire uplift . 17
5.2.7 Neutral sections . 17
5.2.8 Change over area between pantograph profiles . 18
5.3 Pantograph characteristics . 18
5.3.1 General . 18
5.3.2 Assessment of the pantograph head profile . 19
5.3.3 Conducting range . 22
6 Interface material . 22
6.1 General . 22
6.2 Contact wire . 23
6.3 Contact strips . 23
7 Interaction performance . 23
7.1 General . 23
7.2 Static contact forces and current capacity . 23
7.3 Dynamic behaviour and quality of current collection . 24
8 Operational requirements . 27
8.1 Requirement for pantograph . 27
8.2 Minimum and maximum distance between two operating pantographs . 27
8.2.1 General . 27
8.2.2 Design of overhead contact lines . 27
8.2.3 Formation of train with multiple pantographs - Arrangement of pantographs
................................................................................................................................ 28
9 Assessment requirements - Dynamic behaviour and quality of current collection . 28
9.1 General . 28
9.2 Overhead contact line . 29
9.2.1 Assessment of overhead contact line design . 29
9.2.2 Integration of an assessed OCL into a network . 30
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9.3 Pantograph . 30
9.3.1 Assessment of pantograph design . 30
9.3.2 Integration of an assessed pantograph into a vehicle . 30
Annex A (normative) Special requirements . 32
A.1 Neutral sections . 32
A.1.1 Principle of neutral section . 32
A.1.2 Long neutral section . 32
A.1.3 Short neutral section . 33
A.1.4 Split neutral section . 33
A.1.5 Arrangement of pantographs on trains. 34
A.2 Profiles for interoperable pantograph head . 35
A.2.1 Pantograph head with length of 1 600 mm . 35
A.2.2 Pantograph head with length of 1 950 mm . 36
A.3 Additional tests for DC systems at standstill . 36
A.3.1 General . 36
A.3.2 Testing conditions. 37
A.3.3 Testing method . 37
A.3.4 Test results . 39
A.4 Visualization of mean contact forces . 39
Annex B (informative) Data of existing networks . 42
B.1 General . 42
B.2 National characteristics . 42
B.3 General characteristics of pantograph head . 48
Annex C (normative) Additional tests for DC at standstill – alternative method – Test method –
Single strip configuration . 55
Annex D (informative) Specimen calculation for the permissible lateral deviation of the contact
wire according to the requirements of 5.2.5 with typical values from the German network
..................................................................................................................................................... 56
D.1 Calculation Values. 56
D.2 Calculation independent of type of pantograph . 58
D.2.1 Calculation of reference height . 58
D.2.2 Calculation of tolerances of track at the lower verification point . 58
D.2.3 Calculation of tolerances of track at the upper verification point . 58
D.2.4 Calculation of additional overthrow on the inside/outside of the curve for pantographs . 59
D.2.5 Calculation of quasi static effect . 59
D.3 Pantograph head with length of 1600 mm . 59
D.3.1 Calculation of lateral movement of contact wire caused by forces from non-horizontal
sections of pantograph head . 59
D.3.2 Calculation of tolerances of overhead contact line . 60
D.3.3 Calculation of width of mechanical kinematic pantograph gauge at minimum verification
height of the pantograph gauge in a raised position . 60
D.3.4 Calculation of width of mechanical kinematic pantograph gauge at maximum verification
height of the pantograph gauge in a raised position . 60
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D.3.5 Calculation of width of mechanical kinematic pantograph gauge at reference height for
interaction between contact wire and pantograph .
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