European Railway
In order to facilitate interoperability of railway rolling stock within Europe, railway rolling stock is constructed to meet the performances specified in several EN standards. The EN 45545 suite describes these requirements and EN 45545-2 lists all the fire performance requirements and test methods that products must meet to be used in various rolling stock applications for classification of structural products including flooring, seats, cables and non- listed items. Almost all the fire tests to be used were developed by other specialist fire test committees. The performance of all the products is determined with respect to flame spread and the amounts of heat, smoke and toxic fumes produced. The test methods are listed in Table 5.
Table 5 – EN 45545-2: Railway applications – Fire protection on railway vehicles. Part 2: Requirement for behaviour of materials and components
Structural Products (incl.flooring)
| ISO 5658-2 | Reaction to fire tests – Spread of flame – Part 2: Lateral spread on building and transport products in vertical configuration |
| ISO 5660-1 | Reaction-to-fire tests – Heat release, smoke production and mass loss rate. Part 1: Heat release rate (cone calorimeter method) and smoke production rate (dynamic measurement |
| EN ISO 9239 | Reaction to fire tests for building products - Horizontal surface spread of flame for floor coverings |
| EN ISO 11925 | Reaction to fire tests for building products – Ignitability of building products subjected to direct impingement of flame |
| EN ISO 5659-2 | Plastics – Smoke Generation: Part 2: Determination of optical density by a single-chamber test; ASTM E662: Standard Test Method for Specific Optical Density of Smoke Generated by Solid Materials |
Seats
| ISO 9705 | Furniture Calorimeter |
| ISO 5660-1 | Reaction-to-fire tests – Heat release, smoke production and mass loss rate. Part 1: Heat release rate (cone calorimeter method) and smoke production rate (dynamic measurement |
| EN ISO 5659-2 | Plastics – Smoke Generation: Part 2: Determination of optical density by a single-chamber test; ASTM E662: Standard Test Method for Specific Optical Density of Smoke Generated by Solid Materials |
Cables
| EN 60332-1-2 | Vertical flame spread of single cable |
| ISO 5660-1 | Tests on electric and optical fibre cables under fire conditions: Test for vertical flame spread of vertically mounted bunched wires or cables – Category C |
| EN 61034-2 | Smoke production of burning cable |
Non-listed items
| ISO 5658-2 | Reaction to fire tests – Spread of flame – Part 2: Lateral spread on building and transport products in vertical configuration |
| ISO 5660-1 | Reaction-to-fire tests – Heat release, smoke production and mass loss rate. Part 1: Heat release rate (cone calorimeter method) and smoke production rate (dynamic measurement |
| EN ISO 4589-2 | Plastics – Determination of burning behavior by oxygen index – Part 2: Ambient-temperature test |
| NFX X 70-100 | Toxicity Test Apparatus |
| EN ISO 5659-2 | Plastics – Smoke Generation: Part 2: Determination of optical density by a single-chamber test; ASTM E662: Standard Test Method for Specific Optical Density of Smoke Generated by Solid Materials |