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Mobile equipment running exclusively on rails, moving either under its own power (locomotives and railcars) or hauled by another vehicle (coaches, railcar trailers, vans and wagons).
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The following vehicles are included in the statistics for a principal railway enterprise:
a) All railway vehicles belonging to the principal 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 system and vehicles of the enterprise temporarily engaged in the normal course of running abroad, or upon secondary railway enterprises network.
b) Private owners’ wagons, i.e. those not belonging to the principal railway enterprise but registered on it and authorized to run on it under specified conditions, together with wagons hired out by the railway enterprise to private persons and being operated as private owners’ wagons.
Statistics for a principal railway enterprise exclude vehicles not at its disposal, i.e.
a) Foreign or secondary railway enterprise vehicles temporarily on railway lines of the principal railway enterprise in the normal course of running.
b) Vehicles which are on hire to, or otherwise at the disposal of, or other railway enterprises.
c) Vehicles reserved exclusively for service transport, or intended for sale, breaking up or condemning.
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Glossary for Transport Statistics, prepared by the Intersecretariat Working Group on Transport Statistics – Eurostat, European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT), United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).
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Theme: Transport statistics |
| Created
on Sunday, June 16, 2002 |
| Last
updated on Wednesday, January 4, 2006 |
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