RAILWAY OR TRAMWAY LOCOMOTIVES ROLLING-STOCK AND PARTS THEREOF; RAILWAY OR TRAMWAY TRACK FIXTURES AND FITTINGS AND PARTS THEREOF; MECHANICAL (INCLUDING ELECTRO-MECHANICAL) TRAFFIC SIGNALLING EQUIPMENT OF ALL KINDS Chapter Notes.

1.-This Chapter does not cover :

(a) Railway or tramway sleepers of wood or of concrete or concrete guide-track sections forhovertrains (heading No. 44.06 or 68.10);

(b) Railway or tramway track construction material of iron or steel of heading No. 73.02 or

(c) Electrical signalling safety or traffic control equipment of heading No. 85.30.

2.-Heading No. 86.07 applies inter alia to :

(a) Axles wheels wheel sets (running gear) metal tyres hoops and hubs and other parts of wheels;

(b) Frames underframes bogies and bissel-bogies;

(c) Axle boxes; brake gear;

(d) Buffers for rolling-stock; hooks and other coupling gear and corridor connections;

(e) Coachwork.

3.-Subject to the provisions of Note 1 above heading No. 86.08 applies inter alia to :

(a) Assembled track turntables platform buffers loading gauges;

(b) Semaphores mechanical signal discs level crossing control gear signal and point controls and other mechanical (including electro-mechanical) signalling safety or traffic control equipment whether or not fitted for electric lighting for railways tramways roads inland waterways parking facilities port installations or airfields.

GENERAL

This Chapter covers locomotives and rolling-stock and parts thereof and certain track fixtures and fittings for railways or tramways of any kind (including narrow gauge railways single rail railways etc.). It also covers containers specially designed and equipped for carriage by one or more modes of transport. Mechanical (including electro-mechanical) signalling safety or traffic control equipment for traffic of all kinds (including that for parking facilities) is also covered.

Throughout this Chapter the expressions " railway " and " tramway " refer not only to conventional railways and tramways using steel rails but also to similar guided systems such as those using magnetic levitation or concrete tracks. These various goods are classified as follows :

(A) Self-propelled railway vehicles of all types such as locomotives motorised railway or tramway coaches and rail-cars (headings 86.01 to 86.03). Heading 86.02 also includes locomotive tenders. Locomotives operated by two types of power are classified in the heading corresponding to the main type of power used.

(B) Railway or tramway maintenance or service vehicles whether or not self-propelled (heading 86.04).

(C) Various types of hauled vehicles (railway or tramway passenger coaches and luggage vans railway or tramway goods vans wagons and trucks etc.) (headings 86.05 and 86.06).

(D) Parts of railway or tramway locomotives and rolling-stock (heading 86.07) and also railway or tramway track fixtures and fittings and mechanical (including electro- mechanical) equipment for signalling to or controlling road rail or other vehicles ships or aircraft (heading 86.08).

(E) Containers specially designed and equipped for carriage by one or more modes of transport (heading 86.09).

The Chapter also includes air-cushion vehicles designed to travel on a guide-track (hovertrains) parts of these vehicles and hovertrain track fixtures fittings and mechanical (including electro-mechanical) signalling safety or traffic control equipment for hovertrain transport systems (see Note 5 to Section XVII).

Incomplete or unfinished vehicles are classified with the corresponding complete or finished vehicles provided they have the essential character thereof. Such vehicles may include :

(1) Locomotives or motorised railway or tramway coaches not fitted with a power unit measuring instruments safety apparatus or service equipment.

(2) Passenger coaches not fitted with seats.

(3) Truck underframes complete with suspension and wheels. On the other hand bodies of motorised railway or tramway coaches of vans wagons or trucks or of tenders not mounted on underframes are classified as parts of railway or tramway locomotives or rolling-stock (heading 86.07).

The Chapter excludes :

(a)Model railway rolling-stock for demonstrational purposes of heading 90.23.

(b)Heavy artillery mounted on railway trucks (heading 93.01).

(c)Toy trains (heading 95.03).

(d)Equipment not constituting rolling-stock proper specially designed for use on roundabouts or other fairground amusements (heading 95.08).

9 HEADINGS

86.01 - RAIL LOCOMOTIVES POWERED FROM AN EXTERNAL SOURCE OF ELECTRICITY OR BY ELECTRIC ACCUMULATORS.

86.02 - OTHER RAIL LOCOMOTIVES; LOCOMOTIVE TENDERS.

86.03 - SELF-PROPELLED RAILWAY OR TRAMWAY COACHES VANS AND TRUCKS OTHER THAN THOSE OF HEADING No. 86.04.

86.04 - RAILWAY OR TRAMWAY MAINTENANCE OR SERVICE VEHICLES WHETHER OR NOT SELF-PROPELLED (FOR EXAMPLE WORKSHOPS CRANES BALLAST TAMPERS TRACKLINERS TESTING COACHES AND TRACK INSPECTION VEHICLES).

86.05 - RAILWAY OR TRAMWAY PASSENGER COACHES NOT SELF-PROPELLED; LUGGAGE VANS POST OFFICE COACHES AND OTHER SPECIAL PURPOSE RAILWAY OR TRAMWAY COACHES NOT SELF-PROPELLED (EXCLUDING THOSE OF HEADING No. 86.04).

86.06 - RAILWAY OR TRAMWAY GOODS VANS AND WAGONS NOT SELF-PROPELLED.

86.07 - PARTS OF RAILWAY OR TRAMWAY LOCOMOTIVES OR ROLLING-STOCK.

86.08 - RAILWAY OR TRAMWAY TRACK FIXTURES AND FITTINGS; MECHANICAL (INCLUDING ELECTRO-MECHANICAL) SIGNALLING SAFETY OR TRAFFIC CONTROL EQUIPMENT FOR RAILWAYS TRAMWAYS ROADS INLAND WATERWAYS PARKING FACILITIES PORT INSTALLATIONS OR AIRFIELDS; PARTS OF THE FOREGOING.

86.09 - CONTAINERS (INCLUDING CONTAINERS FOR THE TRANSPORT OF FLUIDS) SPECIALLY DESIGNED AND EQUIPPED FOR CARRIAGE BY ONE OR MORE MODES OF TRANSPORT.

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