Which Network Rail telecoms standard covers it — and which clause?
Built for designers early in their rail telecoms career. Type what you are working on and get the standard number, the clause, and a plain-words line on what that clause deals with. Then read the real thing on the NR portal. 133 current NR/TEL standards indexed.
Results point to clause numbers and say what each clause deals with, in our words. Read the current issue on the NR Standards Portal before using anything.
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- Fibre design
Loose-tube and high-capacity fibre, joints, spurs, splicing, loss budgets, pigtails.
- Copper design & immunisation
Unit-twin cable, enclosures, screening conductor, induced voltages, immunity testing.
- Cable route, survey & installation
Surveying a route, troughing, ducts, UTXs, buried and station routes, laying cable.
- Housings, earthing & masts
Trackside housings, radio mast earthing and lightning protection, earth maintenance.
- Design process, assurance & records
GRIP stages, AiP, design review, installation control, T&C, asset data.
- GSM-R & radio
Works near GSM-R, air-interface KPIs, RF clearance, modems, radio structures.
- Lineside telephones & NTPs
SPTs, positioning and labelling, product spec, network terminating points.
- IP networks, transmission & security
Sub-access IP principles, systems architecture, security hardening, Ethernet commissioning.
- Station systems
PA/VA, CIS, CCTV, DOO, SISS asset management.
- Maintenance & faulting
Fault priorities, maintenance regimes and the 30181 work-instruction modules.
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Opstel-original Visio stencils and blank FTN design frames, a worked example route (copper SLD, fibre SLD, splicing diagram), and a bill-of-materials builder with a PADS-referenced item catalogue. Sign-up opens when they are ready.