Loading Guidelines

Verladerichtlinien / Règles de Chargement

Loading Guidelines

Verladerichtlinien / Règles de Chargement (updated April 1, 2022)

Safety of loading in freight transportation is a shared concern by all actors in the rail logistics supply chain: RUs, carriers, consigners/shippers.
The UIC Code of practice for the loading and securing of goods on railway wagons is a reference for a safe loading; the volume 1 (Principles) contains the mandatory requirements to be observed for the safe loading and securing of goods and the volume 2 (Goods), loading guidelines for specific types of goods, developed in compliance with the Principles set out in volume 1 on the basis of tests in practice.

Loading Guidelines-Volume 1 1 April - PDF - 10.2 Mb View	Règles de Chargement-Tome 1 1 April - PDF - 10.2 Mb View	Verladerichtlinien-Band 1 1 April - PDF - 9.3 Mb View
Loading Guidelines-Volume 2 1 April - PDF - 19.1 Mb View	Règles de chargement-Tome 2 1 April - PDF - 26.8 Mb View	Verladerichtlinien-Band 2 1 April 2022 - PDF - 26.6 Mb View

also available on the ETF website.

LOCA

Line categories / Catégories de lignes / Streckenklassen

Each RU designates a standard line category that correspond to the majority of its lines open to international traffic and exceptions: 3.1_Lines categories
Please find the explanation guide: Explanation_Loca_fr_de_en
The RUs shall send to UIC for publication the data on the railway lines they use; only a few such lists are currently available:

RICS	RU	Name	Normal categorie	Exceptions	Line categories that RUs use &/ or network statements
00 50	ZFBH	Zeljeznice Federacije Bosne I Hercegovine	D₄	Tables 2 and 3	zfbh_04-05-2017_transit_routes_and_destination_stations.pdf
00 71	ADIF	Administrator de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias	D₄	3.2, 3.3	https://www.adif.es/sobre-adif/conoce-adif/declaracion-sobre-la-red
00 82	CFL	CFL Infrastructure	D₄	3.4	https://acf.gouvernement.lu/fr/sillon/Document-de-reference-du-reseau.html
00 83	FS	Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane	C₃	3.3, 3.4	FS_2015_line categories &https://www.rfi.it/en/railway-infrastructure-access-/Network-statement.html
00 87	SNCF	SNCF Réseau			https://www.sncf-reseau.com/fr/carte/charges-admissibles-transport-fret & https://www.sncf-reseau.com/fr/documents-reference-reseau
21 51	PKP	PKP CARGO		3.3, 3.4	pkp_cargo_20-03-2015_transit_routes
21 54	CD	CD Cargo	C₂	3.3, 3.4	CD Cargo_01-01-2020_transit_routes & CD Cargo_01-01-2020_destination_stations
21 55	RC H	Rail Cargo Hungaria	C₂	3.3, 3.4	EIB MÁV_GySEV_04-01-2022_transit_routes & EIB MÁV_GySEV_04-01-2022_destination_stations
21 56	ZSSK	ZSSK Cargo	D₄	3.3, 3.4	ZSSK C_2017_transit routes & ZSSK C_2017_ national destination stations
21 78	HZ	HZ CARGO	D₃	3.3, 3.4	HZ_Cargo_11-12-2017_transit_routes & HZ_Cargo_11-12-2022_transit_routes_and_destination_stations
21 79	SŽ	SŽ-Tovorni promet	D₃	3.3, 3.4	sz_02-09-2020_transit_routes_and_destination_stations
21 80	DB	DB Cargo	D₄	3.2, 3.3	DB_Cargo_07-09-2020_transit_routes & DB_Cargo_07-09-2020_destination_stations &https://geovdbn.deutschebahn.com/isr
21 81	RCA	Rail Cargo Austria	D₄	3.2, 3.3	RCA_04-10-2017_transit_routes_and_destination_stations
21 84	DB NL	DB Cargo Nederland (The Nederlands)	C₂	3.3, 3.4	DB_Cargo_Nederland_3.4_v4_2022
21 85	SBB	SBB Cargo	D₄	3.3, 3.4	SBB_Cargo_01-12-2018_transit_routes_and_destination_stations

Loading examples (currently under construction)

Verladebeispiele (derzeit überarbeitet) / Exemples de chargement (actuellement en cours de refonte)

The publish colour-coded loading examples cover other types of loading or wagons fitted with special securing devices. Blue and rosa are listed in the following table, are available according to conditions mentionned in the current version of Loading Guidelines: