naSRPS EN 15877-2:2025

Railway applications - Markings of railway vehicles - Part 2: External markings on coaches, motive power units, locomotives and railbound construction and maintenance machines

Scope

This document specifies the external markings on heavy rail vehicles including heavy rail railbound construction and maintenance machines but except freight wagons relating to their technical and operational characteristics.
This document specifies the characteristics of these markings, the requirements pertaining to their presentation, their shape and position on a rail vehicle and their meaning.
Some markings are accompanied with note(s) where appropriate.
Service markings relating to passenger information are not addressed by this document.
The document is applicable to all heavy rail coaches, motive power units, locomotives and railbound construction and maintenance machines operating within the European Union, the European Free Trade Association Member States and States which are member of OTIF (Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail).

Related directives

NOTE: If the word "harmonized" (marked in green) is not found in the field with the name of the directive, it means that the European standard is not cited in the OJEU.