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Guidance: Rail interoperability: current national technical rules

Department For Transport

August 4
10:20 2023

National technical rules for vehicles

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National technical rules for infrastructure

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NTRs can perform several functions, such as:

  • making a provision for country or network-specific cases
  • filling in open points identified in the national technical specification notices (NTSNs)
  • setting requirements to maintain technical compatibility with existing assets that do not conform to the requirements of NTSNs

Background

Under Regulation 3C of the Railways Interoperability Regulations 2011, the Secretary of State for Transport must publish a list of all national technical rules (NTRs) applying in the United Kingdom and the list must, where appropriate, specify the notified national technical rule (NNTR) that an NTR replaces.

These are the lists of NTRs for infrastructure and vehicles that replace the lists of NNTRs previously notified to the Commission by the Secretary of State.

Published 21 July 2011
Last updated 4 August 2023 +show all updates
  1. GIRT7073 entry amended to include requirements relating to cross-wind adjustments and structure gauge considerations. Other rules listings were updated to replace references to TSI with references to NTSN.

  2. Updates made to GLRT1210 and GMRT2111 to reflect recent technical changes made.

  3. Updated entries for GERT8073 in both lists plus GKRT0028 (infrastructure) and GMRT2173 (vehicles).

  4. Updated entries for GMRT2173 and GIRT7020 to alter their issue numbers and reflect wider changes made to both.

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