BS EN 17095:2019

What is BS EN 17095 - Railway rolling stock maintenance records about?  

BS EN 17095 is a European standard on railway applications that discusses railway rolling stock maintenance records. 

BS EN 17095 specifies requirements for the content on maintenance records on railway vehicles and guidance to help the parties involved in the maintenance process to fulfil their responsibilities, especially to: 

• Document that maintenance has been ordered properly 
• Document that maintenance has been delivered according to the maintenance order. 

Within an entity in charge of maintenance (ECM) organization, the fleet maintenance management and maintenance delivery functions are especially concerned with maintenance records and are an important input for the maintenance development function. 

Note: BS EN 17095 does not apply to: 

• Managing documentation required to schedule and carry out maintenance (e.g., trigger events for planned maintenance or fault notices reported by train crew) 
• Managing fault notices generated by train borne diagnostic systems 
• Managing documentation related to the interaction between railway undertakings and ECM (e.g., return to operation). 

Who is BS EN 17095 - Railway rolling stock maintenance records for? 

BS EN 17095 on railway applications is useful for: 

• Railway inspector 
• Railway engineer 
• Manufacturers of rail rolling stock 

Why should you use BS EN 17095 - Railway rolling stock maintenance records? 

Maintenance records are an important part of the maintenance process regarding the exchange of information and documentation of the decisions made and actions taken. 

The purpose of BS EN 17095 on maintenance records in the planning, ordering and delivery of maintenance on railway vehicles is to ensure that the vehicles are in a safe state of running by means of a system of maintenance. 

BS EN 17095 provides a wide variety of design and maintenance methods, so that system of maintenance should be a process-oriented system. 

Overall, BS EN 17095 guides you through the maintenance records on railway vehicles used to manage information and logs the maintenance, inspection, and breakdown of the rolling stock. 

In this way, with the help of this system, future records can be maintained for inspection purposes making operations cost-effective and reducing the transit time to a larger extent.