International Union of Railways - Some UIC Regulations

Some UIC Regulations

Some UIC codes are:

• UIC 568 The 13-corded cable with connector is a standardized connection cable, used transmit data and commands between the locomotive and the carriages of a passenger train.
• UIC 592-2 Large containers for transport on wagons - Technical conditions to be fulfilled by large containers accepted for use in international traffic. This leaflet defines the technical characteristics and practical features of large containers for use in combined traffic. It describes: the classes and categories of large containers. the handling characteristics, the identification markings, and the special conditions applying to large tank containers.
• UIC 592-3 Large containers (CT), swap bodies (CM) and transport frames for horizontal transhipment (CA) - Standard report on acceptance tests.
• UIC 592-4 Swap bodies for grab handling and spreader gripping - Technical conditions Swap bodies are the removable superstructures of road transport vehicles. Their dimensions and some of their fittings are standardised. This standardisation applies particularly to the dimensions, strength parameters, securing devices, of the road vehicle itself, of the wagon and of transhipment arrangements (grab-handling grooves, lower securing parts and, in special cases, upper securing parts).
• UIC 596-5 Transport of road vehicles on wagons - Technical organisation - Conveyance of semi-trailers with P coding or N coding on recess wagons This Leaflet sets out regulations and provisions to be observed by semi-trailers with normal road transport characteristics for conveyance on fixed-recess carrier wagons. The provisions are valid for: Semi-trailers, Gantry equipment/industrial trucks with grab handles, Recess wagon types 1a and 1b in accordance with UIC Leaflet 571-4.
• UIC 596-6 Conveyance of road vehicles on wagons - Technical organisation - Conditions for coding combined-transport load units and combined-transport lines The present leaflet sets out the coding and organisation of loading units in respect of road vehicles on wagons. This coding is designed to ensure the compatibility of loading units (LU) with the permissible profile for combined transport lines. The provisions in the present leaflet aim to facilitate LU identification in order thereby to speed-up international traffic movements. They are applicable to: semi-trailers swap bodies roller units loaded on wagons or bogies in combined transport operations.