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Part 1 of the European Rails Standard, concerning flat-bottom symmetrical railway rails, is being developed by Working Group 4 of the CEN Railway Applications Techntcal Committee TC 256. Its probable requirements for quality assurance and inspection, steel manufacture and grades, qualifying tests, and the new or modified acceptance tests, are outlined. Attempts are being made to introduce many performance-related aspects.
Keywords:
Europe,
Permanent Way,
Railways,
Standards,
Development,
Rails,
Flat,
Bottom,
Harmonisation,
Symmetrical,
Quality,
Assurance,
Inspection,
Steel,
Manufacture,
Grades,
Tests,
Qualifying,
Acceptance,
British Rail Research
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1993
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