DIN Standards Committee Railway
Railway applications - Rolling stock - Head stock layout
Abstract
This document is applicable to vehicles equipped with buffers and screw coupling systems. In order to allow operation and coupling of trainsets or vehicles, this document specifies the defined free space for the shunter called the "Berne rectangle" and the necessary free space for the installation of the rescue coupler. This document specifies the location, fixing and free spaces on the headstock of: - buffers; - screw coupling systems; - end cocks; - pneumatic half couplings; - connections for electric cables. It also specifies the calculation of the width of the buffer heads. Unless otherwise displayed, all dimensions given in this document are nominal values.
Begin
2023-06-01
WI
00256A3M
Planned document number
EN 16839/prA1
Responsible national committee
NA 087-00-13 AA - Coupling devices
Responsible european committee
CEN/TC 256/SC 2/WG 33 - Coupling devices
draft standard
Railway applications - Rolling stock - Head stock layout
2024-03
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