TECHNICAL AND QUALITY REQUIREMENTS ON MAINTENANCE OF RAILWAY INFRASTRUCTURE
On January 31, 2019, the Ministry of Transport issues the Circular No. 06/2019/TT-BGTVT on prescribing criteria for surveillance and acceptance testing of maintenance performance of national railway infrastructure in terms of maintenance quality, regime and procedures.
Accordingly, railway infrastructure must satisfy the following requirement:
- Steel bridge structure must be kept clean, must be painted to prevent it from rusting, must be coated and must prevent water from being trapped on it;
- Structures made of reinforced concrete, concrete and gravels must meet requirements that the expansion of cracks is within the permissible limit and must be checked and monitored regularly; the surface of these structures must have good drainage capacity;
- As for railroad bridges over rivers providing ship clearances, inland waterway signals must be available in full, stable, firm, in position and meet prescribed specifications in accordance with the National technical regulations on inland waterway signaling systems;
- As for railroad crossings equipped with lighting systems, lighting systems must be made available in full while the average illuminance and illuminance uniformity of lighting systems must be within the prescribed limits;
- Railroad crossing protection systems must be installed in full, in position and must meet engineering specifications as well as must be under good working conditions…
This Circular takes effect on April 1, 2019.
