This European Standard is applicable to authorities involved in railway operation and may also be applied for light vehicles (e. g. trams, metros, etc. running on two rails) and their associated infrastructure, but not for systems such as rail-guided buses. It allows rolling stock and infrastructures to be dimensioned and their compliance to be checked relative to applicable gauging rules. For rolling stock and infrastructure, this standard is applicable to new designs, to modifications and to the checking of vehicles and infrastructures already in use. This document EN 15273-1 covers: the general principles; the various elements and phenomena affecting the determination of gauges; the various calculation methods applicable to the elements shared by the infrastructure and by the rolling stock; the sharing rules for elements taken into account in calculations specific to the infrastructure and to the rolling stock; a catalogue of European gauges. This document does not cover: conditions to be met to ensure safety of passengers on platforms and of persons required to walk along the tracks; conditions to be met by the fixed equipment maintenance machines in active position; the space to be cleared for the running track of rubber-tyred metros and other vehicles; rules applicable to extraordinary transportation, however some formulae may be used; rules applicable to the design of the overhead contact line system; rules applicable to the design of the current collection system on a third rail; simulation methods for the running of vehicles, however, it does not confirm the validity of existing simulations; verification rules of wagon loadings; coding methods for combined transportation; infrastructure gauges for very small curve radii (e. g. R < 150 m for gauge G1).
EN 15273-1:2013 Referenced Document
EN 14067-2:2003 Railway applications - Aerodynamics - Part 2: Aerodynamics on open track
EN 14067-3:2003 Railway applications - Aerodynamics - Part 3: Aerodynamics in tunnels
EN 14363:2005 Railway applications - Testing for the acceptance of running characteristics of railway vehicles - Testing of running behaviour and stationary tests
EN 15273-2:2013 Railway applications - Gauges - Part 2: Rolling stock gauge (Incorporates Amendment A1: 2017)
EN 15273-3:2013 Railway applications - Gauges - Part 3: Structure gauges (Incorporates Amendment A1: 2016)
EN 15313:2010 Railway applications - In-service wheelset operation requirements - In-service and off-vehicle wheelset maintenance
EN 50119:2009 Railway applications - Fixed installations - Electric traction overhead contact lines (Incorporates Amendment A1: 2013)
EN 50367:2012 Railway applications - Current collection systems - Technical criteria for the interaction between pantograph and overhead line (to achieve free access) (Incorporating corrigendum August 2013)
EN 15273-1:2013 history
2013EN 15273-1:2013 Railway applications - Gauges - Part 1: General - Common rules for infrastructure and rolling stock (Incorporates Amendment A1: 2016)
2009EN 15273-1:2009 Railway applications - Gauges - Part 1: General - Common rules for infrastructure and rolling stock