20/30385987 DC

This standard 20/30385987 DC BS EN 13232-1. Railway applications. Track. Switches and crossings for Vignole rails is classified in these ICS categories:

• 01.040.93 Civil engineering (Vocabularies)
• 93.100 Construction of railways

This document provides an accepted “terminology” for switch and crossing work. With the assistance of diagrams, the various components are given definitions, and these specific names are regarded as obligatory.

The definitions cover the constituent parts and design geometry of switch and crossing work. Additional terminology of a more specific nature will be defined in the relevant part of the series.

The present definitions set out the terms most generally used for the geometrical form and the construction of switches and crossings, omitting those of too special a nature.