ORDER OF THE MINISTER OF INVESTMENTS AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN

of April 30, 2015 No. 544

About approval of Operational regulations of rail transport

According to subitem 34-12) of Item 2 of article 14 of the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan of December 8, 2001 "About rail transport" PRIKAZYVAYU:

1. Approve the enclosed Operational regulations of rail transport.

2. To committee of transport of the Ministry for Investments and Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Asavbayev A. A.) provide:

1) state registration of this order in the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

2) within ten calendar days after state registration of this order in the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan the direction it the copy on official publication in periodic printed publicity materials and information system of law of Ad_let;

3) placement of this order on Internet resource of the Ministry for Investments and Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan and on the intranet portal of state bodies;

4) within ten working days after state registration of this order in the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan submission to Legal department of the Ministry for Investments and Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan of data on execution of the actions provided by subitems 1), 2) and 3) of Item 2 of this order.

3. To impose control of execution of this order on the supervising vice-minister of investments and development of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

4. This order becomes effective after ten calendar days after day of its first official publication.

Approved by the Order of the Minister of investments and development of the Republic of Kazakhstan of April 30, 2015 No. 544

Operational regulations of rail transport

1. General provisions

1. These rules of technical operation of rail transport (further - Rules) are developed according to subitem 34-12) of Item 2 of article 14 of the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan of December 8, 2001 "About rail transport" (further - the Law) and determine procedure for technical operation of rail transport.

2. In these rules the following terms are used:

1) automatic cab signaling - system in case of which train movements on stage are performed on signals of engineman's indicators and operation points are the designated borders of block sites;

2) low-active sites - sites with amount of movement of passenger and freight trains (in the amount) according to the schedule no more than 8 couples a day;

3) distillation communication - communication for conducting office negotiations between persons on duty on railway stations and the workers performing works and being on stage;

4) stage - the part of rail line limited to adjacent stations, traveling, outdistanced Items or traveling posts;

5) special railway vehicles (further - Union of Right Forces) - the self-propelled and non-self-propelled rail vehicles intended for works on content, servicing, recovery and repair of the high-level railway net and sidings;

6) crew of special railway vehicles (further - crew of Union of Right Forces) - the workers appointed for management and servicing of Union of Right Forces. For management of Union of Right Forces the crew - the driver and the assistant driver or the driver and the assistant to the driver of section car is appointed (according to the operating manual of the corresponding vehicle);

7) the heavyweight freight train - the freight train which weight for the corresponding series of locomotives on 100 tons and more exceeds the weight regulation established by the traffic schedule on the site of following of this train;

8) arrow - the part of the railroad switch consisting of stock rails, funnymen and shift mechanism. In the presence of crosspieces with the movable core the crosspiece also enters concept of the shooter;

9) pointer post - one or several railroad switches of not centralized operation serviced by one person on duty of pointer post;

10) the pointer area - group of the adjacent pointer posts which are under control of one senior pointer post on duty;

11) the railroad switch - the device serving for transfer of railway vehicles from one way on another. Railroad switches consist of arrows, crosspieces and connecting tracks between them. Crosspieces happen to the rigid or movable core. Leading particulars of crosspiece without mobile elements are the core, two usovik, two counterrails, prikrepitel and liners, connection fastenings and bolts with washers and nuts for consolidation of usovik and the core in single design in case of combined crosspieces;

12) pointer communication - communication for conducting office negotiations between the person on duty on railway station with interlocked and control posts of railway station concerning preparation of routes (including check of svobodnost of railway tracks and arrows) and fixing of railway rolling stock on converging railway tracks;

13) neutral insert - the site of the contact suspender between two air spaces (the isolating interfaces) on which there is no tension, providing electrical insulation of the integrated sites when passing current collectors of electrorailway vehicles;

14) the block site - part of end-of-siding-to-end-of-siding block in case of automatic lock-out or in case of the automatic cab signaling applied as independent means of the alarm system and communication, limited to traffic lights through passage (borders of block sites) or the traffic light through passage (block site border) and the entrance traffic light of railway station, and also the output traffic light and the first passing traffic light through passage (block site border);

15) side track - way on which when following the railway vehicles deviate on the railroad switch;

16) special wayside markers - borders of railway right of way, the index of switch number, sign of axis of the passenger building, signs on linear roadway buildings, reference points of the beginning and end of simple curves, and also began, the middle and the end of easement curves, hidden constructions of subgrade, the highest horizon of waters and maximum height of wave;

17) wayside marker - the permanent index of profile and extent of rail lines;

18) the passenger train - the train for public conveyance, baggage, cargo baggage and mailings created from passenger and luggage cars;

19) passenger stopping point - the Item on stage which does not have traveling development, intended only for landing and disembarkation of passengers which is not operation point;

20) the works manager - person in charge on operation of railway tracks;

21) the rapid passenger train - the passenger train handling motion speeds to 200 kilometers per hour;

22) clearance gage of rolling stock - limiting cross (perpendicular track centers) the outline in which without coming to light is located both the loaded, and empty railway vehicles established on straight-and-level track;

23) means of automatic monitoring of technical condition of railway vehicles on the run of the train - the equipment allowing to find and transfer in automatic mode information to the person on duty on ahead to the lying station, the traffic controller, the driver about availability and arrangement in the train of defective railway vehicles and type of defect;

24) bank locomotive - the locomotive appointed for the aid to the leading locomotive on separate stages or part of stage (in the rear of the train);

25) the warranty site - the site limited to Items of maintenance which extent is determined proceeding from need of safe passing of cars in good repair for the train;

26) stage interon point duty - the stage limited to traveling posts or traveling post and the station;

27) bias - element of long edged profile of railway track, rakish to the horizontal line (rise, descent);

28) track clearance - limiting cross (perpendicular track centers) outline in which no parts of constructions and devices come. The exception constitutes only the devices intended for their direct interaction with railway vehicles (rail brakes in working order, contact wires with fittings, the turning part of column in case of set of water);

29) service braking - braking by steps for reduction of speed or stop of the train in the provided place;

30) the locomotive - the railway vehicles intended for ensuring movement on railway tracks of trains or separate cars;

31) engine crew - the workers appointed for servicing of locomotives, and also motor car trains;

32) shunting structure - group of the cars linked among themselves and to the locomotive making maneuvers. The locomotive linked to one car is also considered as shunting structure;

33) motor car railway vehicles - motor and trailer cars of which the motor car trains (electric trains, diesel - trains, rail buses) intended for public conveyance are created;

34) outdistanced Item - the operation point on double lines having the traveling development allowing overtaking of trains and in necessary cases, transfer of the train from one main track on another;

35) interlocked point - arrow which funnymen (and in the presence of crosspiece with the movable core and the core) are translated by the special fittings managed from one central Item;

36) non-interlocked point - arrow which funnymen are translated manually by means of shift mechanism directly at arrow;

37) especially heavy traffic of trains - the amount of movement of passenger and freight trains (in the amount) according to the schedule on double-track territor more than 100 couples and on single-line sites - more than 48 couples a day;

38) heavy traffic of trains - the amount of movement of passenger and freight trains (in the amount) according to the schedule on double-track territor from 50 to 99 couples of trains and on single-line sites from 24 to 47 couples a day;

39) train conference circuit - communication for conducting the office negotiations between the traffic controller and persons on duty on railway stations entering the serviced dispatching site;

40) radio blocking - system of interval regulation by train movements on the basis of network of digital radio communication;

41) travel - the operation point on single-line lines having the traveling development intended for crossing and overtaking of trains which can carry out commercial transactions;

42) the refrigerator train - the train created from refrigerated cars;

43) safety track - the way intended for the prevention of exit of railway vehicles to routs to follow of trains;

44) long descent - descent in case of values of the steepness and extent according to appendix 1 to these rules;

45) railway station (further - the station) - the Item which is dividing the main ways into sites, having traveling development, providing traffic regulation, handling capacity and allowing to make transactions on acceptance, departure and (or) crossing, overtaking of trains, servicing of passengers, acceptance, issue of baggage, cargo baggage, mailings and (or) loads and also shunting operation;

46) the station supervisor - the shift assistant administrator of the station solely disposing of acceptance, departure and the omission of trains, and also other movements of railway vehicles on the main and priyemo-dispatch tracks of the station (where there is no shunting dispatcher - and on other ways);

47) train interexchange communication - communication for conducting office negotiations between persons on duty on railway stations of the next railway stations;

48) end-of-siding-to-end-of-siding block - the stage limited to stations, traveling and outdistanced Items;

49) station signal cabin - post on railway station in which management of group of interlocked points and signals is concentrated;

50) braking distance - the distance passed by train in time from the moment of transfer of the handle of the crane to the driver or the crane of emergency braking in brake provision to full stop. Braking distances differ depending on braking type (office, complete office and emergency);

51) railway and construction machines - one of types of Union of Right Forces having one or several operating parts performing works on construction, all types of repairs, content and maintenance of constructions and devices of rail transport;

52) technological window - time during which train movements on stage, separate ways of stage or the station for production of repair construction works stop;

53) loading dimension - limiting cross (perpendicular track centers) outline in which, without coming to light, the load (taking into account packaging and fixture) on open railway vehicles is placed in case of stay it on straight-and-level track;

54) contact network - set of the wires, designs and the equipment providing transfer of electrical energy from transformer stations to current collectors of electrorailway vehicles;

55) the national operator of infrastructure - the legal entity whose controlling stock is owned by National railway company, performing operation, the content, upgrade, construction of the high-level railway net and rendering services to the high-level railway net;

56) the catching deadlock - the way intended for stop of the train which lost control or parts of the train in case of movement;

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