Welcome to the standards updates for June 2024. There are updated standards for rolling stock, infrastructure, and Control, Command, and Signalling. There is new guidance on designing freight wagons for the GB mainline and lineside signal and indicators. One new non-RSSB standard has been added. There’s also news about guidance supporting rail-related safety legislation.
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Five Rolling Stock standards have been updated.
The guidance note will support the authorisation and development of wagon designs for operation on the GB mainline railway.
This standard has been updated to improve its readability. Issue 2 is clearer in preparing test procedures, approval of new techniques, certification of equipment, facilities, and operatives.
This standard puts a human at the centre of the cab design process. It aims to reduce operational risks like train stop-shorts and station over runs.
The revised guidance simplifies projects working on new or modified vehicles for carrying intermodal load units.
This update will make demonstrating compliance more straightforward for projects. This will reduce costs and time for the introduction of new or modified wagons. Together, the changes in GMRT2141 Iss 5 and GMGN2641 Iss 2, are estimated to benefit the industry by £3M over 5 years. This is from improved efficiency of a range of new and modified vehicle projects.
One Rolling Stock Technical Note has been updated.
This Technical Note describes the standards associated with rail vehicle route availability numbers. It also gives guidance on their application.
One Control, Command and Signalling standard has been updated.
This standard provides a single document with all the requirements, rationale, and associated guidance for lineside signal and indicator product design and assessment. It also contains guidance from GKGN0657 Iss 1 which has now been withdrawn.
Three Infrastructure standards have been updated.
This standard has new requirements for assessing train-bridge compatibility. More guidance has been added for plant travelling.
This update clarifies the application of loadings. It will make the Route Availability number more accurate.
New guidance helps engineers and operators carry out the Stage 3 compatibility assessment.
In June, one revised Code of Practice was published.
The revised Code of Practice is:
