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APPLICATION OF THE EN 45545
STANDARD AT SNCF
BERLIN 2016-03-02

AUTHORS:
GUILLAUME CRAVEUR (SNCF) FIRE SAFETY EXPERT
SERGE MÉTRAL (SNCF) CONVENOR OF CEN TC256 WG1
 LET ME INTRODUCE MYSELF

I AM

+ From the SNCF Centre d'Ingénierie du Matériel

(Rolling Stock Engineering Centre)
+ Fire Safety Engineer
+ Member of CEN TC256 WG01 : Fire Protection in
Rolling Stock

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 CENTRE D’INGÉNIERIE DU
MATÉRIEL
WHO ARE WE ?
ROLLING STOCK ENGINEERING CENTRE
Part of the SNCF Rolling Stock Division, located at Le Mans

Over 70 years of experience in railway rolling stock engineering

250 technicians & engineers with cutting-edge technical skills

covering 90 technological and scientific railway disciplines

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 CENTRE D’INGÉNIERIE DU
MATÉRIEL
WHO ARE WE ?
Comprehensive know-how
Specification, support to development, design and installation of railway rolling
stock and its equipment,
Assistance to project management for all rolling stock
Know-how upgraded by analysis of operational feedback and technology watch

Clients : Operators - Manufacturers - Equipment suppliers - Rolling stock and

wagon operators - Wagon owners - Organising Authorities - Institutional bodies -
Infrastructure managers

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 WHAT WE DO ?
Technical responsibilities

• Project Management

• Safety and braking equipment

• Diesel engine

• Bogies and bearing equipment

• Propulsion and energy conversion

• Body structure and interior fittings

• Systems engineering and transverse functions

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 WHAT WE DO ?
Services
• Procurement and refurbishment of rolling stock
• Assessment and diagnostics
• Functional and technical standards drafting
• Safety equipment integration and qualification
• Verification of component compliance with standards & regulations
• Assistance and advice for rolling stock design and homologation

All engineering services available with http://www.masteris.com

&
http://www.eurailtest.com
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 SUMMARY

1. Outlining management of the transitional

period

2. Fire and smoke file

3. Highlighting deviation management at SNCF

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 1. OUTLINING MANAGEMENT OF THE
TRANSITIONAL PERIOD AT SNCF

• Fire standards used at SNCF

• Assessment process at SNCF

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 FIRE STANDARDS USED AT SNCF

o At National (French) level :

• SAM S 002 Prévention et lutte contre l’incendie (recommendation from

EPSF)

• Standards NF F 16-101, NF F 16-102, NF F 16-103 (to be replaced by

the European standards)

• STM S 001 (Specifications from SNCF and RATP)

o At European level :

• STI LOC&PAS (published december 2014)

• EN 45545 (parts 1 to 7)

• EN 50553

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 TRANSITIONAL PERIOD

2011/291 (TSI CR)

1302/2014 (TSI LOC&PAS)
2008/232 (TSI HS)

EN 45545-2 EN 45545-2 EN 45545-2

Voluntary Voluntary Mandatory

Notified National Fire Notified National Fire Standard

Standard not withdrawn Withdrawn

03-2013 01-2015 03-2016 01-2018

Publication of Publication of TSI Withdrawal of End of transitional
10EN 45545
Beginning of national Fire period granted by
transitional period standards TSI LOC&PAS
 ASSESSMENT PROCESS AT SNCF
New material

yes Possibility to use

Rolling stock TSI?
NF F until 2017

no
yes
New Rolling Stock? EN45545

no
EN45545
yes
Maintenance? or
NF F
no (refurbishment)
EN45545
Before 03/2016
When? or
NF F
After 03/2016
EN45545
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 2. FIRE AND SMOKE FILE

• List of materials and components

• Fire and smoke certificates

• Requirements according to STM S 001

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 LIST OF MATERIALS AND COMPONENTS

In order to justify the conformity of a rolling stock concerning fire safety, a

list of materials and components has to be established according to EN
45545-2.
Below, the table used by SNCF:

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 FIRE AND SMOKE CERTIFICATES

• All tests required by EN 45545 shall be carried out by laboratories

accredited for these tests according to EN ISO/IEC 17025.

• Laboratories should not write validity date on certificates.

Example of report :

• There is no validity date in the EN 45545-2.

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 REQUIREMENTS ACCORDING TO STM S 001

• This document describes the application of EN 45545 by SNCF and RATP

companies.

• It gives more precisions in the description of materials and components.

• It deals with essential objectives of fire safety :

Minimize the effect of fire in terms of heat, smoke and toxic gases.

• It specifies the validity of certificates : 5 years

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 REQUIREMENTS ACCORDING TO STM S 001
IN Interiors Details Requirement

All tables and toilet wash basins

Tables, folding table (including surrounds).
tops, and Seats tables
IN9A toilet wash basins. R2
(tables on the back of seats or
Type A – Upper housed in the armrest for example,
surfaces are covered by products IN 9A and
IN 9B)

Longitudinal seals such as window

IN 16 Interior seals seals, door joints, panel R22
connections, joints of chests or
cabinets of equipment

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 REQUIREMENTS ACCORDING TO STM S 001

EX Exteriors Details Requirement

Exterior ducts
Interior surfaces of ducts which are
EX4A transiting inside installed outside of the vehicle and R1
the vehicle –
leading airflow inside of the vehicle
interior surfaces

Exterior and interior surfaces of

EX4B Exterior ducts ducts which are not taken into R7
account in the field of EX4A

Longitudinal seals such as window

EX12 Exterior seals seals, door joints, panel connections, R23
joints of chests or cabinets of
equipment

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 REQUIREMENTS ACCORDING TO STM S 001

F Furniture Details Requirement

R21 (F1A) for

The design elements such as the perch seat
is treated as furniture within the meaning of the fabric
the table 2 , product F. R6 (F1C) for the
structure

The counters of car restoration are treated as

tables and folding tables downward
facing surface:
F Furniture
Top surface of the counter R2 (IN9A)

bottom surface of the counter :

If it is accessible to the public in the absence R1 (IN9B)
of operating personnel .
If it is not accessible to the public in the R10
absence of operating personnel
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 REQUIREMENTS ACCORDING TO STM S 001

F Furniture Details Requirement

According table 3
of EN 45545-2 :
F Foot of the seat, footrests,
Seats accessories R1 or R22 in
magazine rack, cup holders.
function of the
exposed area

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 REQUIREMENTS ACCORDING TO STM S 001
E Electrotechnical Details Requirement
equipment
EL2 Cable Cable containment surface related See Table
containment (cable duct, cable conduit). 8 and
(linear product) See 5.3.5 Table 9 of EN
Braided sleeving, corrugated pipes, 45545-2
fixing and connecting fittings

EL7A Choke and coils Chokes for supply line filtering, coils
(1) for air cooled transformers,
R22
– Interior including spacers and air guiding
plates (rated voltage ≤ 3000V)
EL7B Choke and coils Chokes for supply line filtering, coils
(1) for air cooled transformers,
– Exterior including spacers and air guiding
R23
plates and traction motor winding
insulation (rated voltage ≤ 3000V)

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 REQUIREMENTS ACCORDING TO STM S 001
E Electrotechnical Details Requirement
equipment
EL9 Printed circuit Printed circuit boards without any R25 Completed
boards attached technical equipment by test T12 as
defined in
requirement R22
With soldermask and topcoat or
tropicalization identical to the terms of
use
EL10 Small R 26
electrotechnical Components of low power circuits See text on
products (< 20 kW) Examples include low power EL10 products.
circuit breakers, contactors, all kinds of
relays and their bases, the limit
switches, the sensors, inverters,
control or signaling switches, the
terminals and terminal blocks, fuses,
connectors, the push buttons , showy,
electrical sockets, the phone handsets
supports, speakers
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 REQUIREMENTS ACCORDING TO STM S 001

Small electrotechnical products : EL10

• EN 45545-1 in the scope precises that «The protection of passengers and

staff is essentially based on measures to […] minimise the effects of fire in
terms of heat, smoke and toxic gases on passengers or staff through the
specification of materials installed on railway vehicles (Part 2)”

• Requirement R26 does not allow to respect this sentence due to the lack
of smoke testing

• Grouping rules because non-listed products

• R26 + R22 for interior products

• R26 + R23 for exterior products

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 REQUIREMENTS ACCORDING TO STM S 001

• Casing : external surface of small electrical

component (see IEC 60529 (or EN60529)
§3.1 or IEV 826-03-12) against direct
Contactor relay contact. This external surface reduce risk of
fire to propagate from inside toward outside
the electrical equipment and so to ignite
other component located in it vicinity.
• Casing has to fulfil the NLI rules (Chap 4.3)
in term of fire ands smoke qualification level.
• No requirement apply to parts located inside
this casing .
• This proposal is due to :
• very small quantity of O2 ,
• fire &smoke qualification of casing,
• very low weight/volume of combustible
material in each casing

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 REQUIREMENTS ACCORDING TO STM S 001

§ 4.7 Products to be approved on functional necessity

• Respect of essential safety requirements defined in EN 45545-1

• Evaluation file to justify the application :

• Valid NF F 16-101, NF F 16-102 certificates

• Demonstration of the nonexistence of a product in accordance with

EN 45545-2 and other performance needed by the required functions
of the product

• Inclusion of the return of experience or data from full-scale test on

rolling stock

• The absence of possible use of a satisfactory alternative product

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 3. HIGHLIGHTING DEVIATION MANAGEMENT
AT SNCF

• Non-compliance NF F but compliance EN

• Non-compliance EN but compliance NF F

• Non-compliance NF F and non-compliance EN

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 NON-COMPLIANCE NF F BUT COMPLIANCE EN

• If the contract for a rolling stock is according to NF F :

• Contractual deviation request

• The fire risk is mastered by a product compliant with EN 45545

NON-COMPLIANCE EN BUT COMPLIANCE NF F

• If the contract for a rolling stock is according to EN 45545 :

• Contractual deviation request

• The fire risk is mastered by a product compliant with NF F 16-101, NF F

16-102

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 NON-COMPLIANCE NF F AND NON-COMPLIANCE
EN
• Standard deviation request

• Demonstration of fire risk assessment

• Use of § 4.7 according to STM S 001

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 CONCLUSION

• STM S 001 is a document written to help users of EN 45545-2:

• To have more examples of listed products

• To have complementary requirements in accordance to EN 45545-1

• This document could help during the revision of EN 45545-2

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 THANK YOU

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