International Coach Regulations

RIC ( Regolamento Internazionale delle Carrozze ) is a 1922 agreement concluded between European railways agreement on internationally deployable coaches. By 1982, the RIC was supervised by the Swiss Federal Railways, since the UIC today take part in the 27 railway companies of the European countries except the UK, Ireland and Finland at the RIC.

The RIC will determine which technical conditions must meet a railway carriage to be used internationally can. Cars that meet these conditions, wear the symbol RIC and may, without prior approval in all RIC - Bahn trains.

In RIC grid also the speed limit, the allowable stresses and the maximum current of the train line to be specified. An anchor symbol indicates the permissibility of the use of train ferries. Are country code specified in the RIC grid, then the car is only allowed for the specified countries.

The car number of a RIC car starts with 51, ​​52, 53, 61, 62, 63, 71 or 73, the car number 71 was only active from 1971 to 1995 and marked the International Sleeping Car Pool, also known under the name TEN pool. This pool was active only in Western Europe and included only sleeper CIWL and the DSG.

There are also international use car without RIC. These require a special agreement between the railway company on whose networks they may operate. At such cars also a RIC grid can be written, but with a cross instead of the letters RIC and the abbreviations of the countries for which the car is registered (except his home track management ).

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