This European Standard specifies minimum structural requirements for freight wagon bodies and associated
specific equipment such as: roof, side and end walls, door, stanchion, fasteners and attachments. It defines
also special requirements for the freight wagon bodies when the wagon is equipped with crashworthy buffers.
It defines the loads sustained by vehicle bodies and specific equipment, gives material data, identifies its use
and presents principles and methods to be used for design validation by analysis and testing.
For this design validation, two methods are given:
? one based on loadings, tests and criteria based upon methods used previously by the UIC rules and
applicable only for vehicle bodies made of steel;
? one based on the method of design and assessment of vehicles bodies given in EN 12663-1. For this
method, the load conditions to be applied to freight wagons are given in this European Standard. They
are copied in the EN 12663-1 in order to facilitate its use when applied to freight wagons.
The freight wagons are divided into categories which are defined only with respect to the structural
requirements of the vehicle bodies.
Some freight wagons do not fit into any of the defined categories; the structural requirements for such freight
wagons should be part of the specification and be based on the principles presented in this European
Standard.
The standard applies to all freight wagons within the EU and EFTA territories. The specified requirements
assume operating conditions and circumstances such as are prevalent in these countries.
BS EN 12663-2:2010 history
2023BS EN 12663-2:2010+A1:2023 Railway applications. Structural requirements of railway vehicle bodies. Freight wagons
2010BS EN 12663-1:2010 Railway applications - Structural requirements of railway vehicle bodies - Locomotives and passenger rolling stock (and alternative method for freight wagons)
2000BS EN 12663:2000 Railway applications - Structural requirements of railway vehicle bodies