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Railway vehicle

Definition
Mobile equipment running exclusively on rails, moving either under its own power (tractive vehicles) or hauled by another vehicle (coaches, railcar trailers, vans and wagons). The following vehicles are included in the statistics for a railway enterprise: • All railway vehicles belonging to the railway enterprise and hired by it and actually at its disposal, including those under or waiting for repair, or stored in working or non-working order, and foreign vehicles at the disposal of the enterprise and vehicles of the enterprise temporarily abroad and engaged in the normal course of running. • Private owners’ wagon, i.e. those not belonging to the railway enterprise but authorized to be operated by it under specified conditions, together with wagons hired out by the railway enterprise to third parties and being operated as private owners’ wagons. Statistics for a railway enterprise exclude vehicles not at its disposal, i.e. • Foreign vehicles or vehicles not belonging to the railway enterprise circulating on the railway network. • Vehicles which are on hire to, or otherwise at the disposal of, other railway bodies. • Vehicles reserved exclusively for service transport condemned or intended for sale or, breaking-up.
Context
EU Policy
Document Type
Glossary
Origin document

Glossary for transport statistics - 5TH EDITION 2019

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