EN 14587-3 Railway applications - Track - Flash butt welding of rails - Part 3: Welding in association with crossing construction

This document (EN 14587-3:2012) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 256 Railway
applications, the secretariat of which is held by DIN.
This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an identical text or
by endorsement, at the latest by March 2013, and conflicting national standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by
March 2013.
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CEN [and/or CENELEC] shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
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This document is one of a series of three parts of the EN 14587 Railway applications – Track – Flash butt welding
of rails. The list of parts is as follows:
 Part 1: New R220, R260, R260Mn and R350HT grade rails in a fixed plant
 Part 2: New R220, R260, R260Mn and R350HT grade rails by mobile welding machines at sites other than a
fixed plant
 Part 3: Welding in association with crossing construction (the present standard)
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Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal,
Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.