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ORDER OF THE MINISTER OF INVESTMENTS AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN

of April 30, 2015 No. 544

About approval of Rules of technical operation of rail transport

(In edition of Orders of the Minister of investments and development of the Republic of Kazakhstan of 22.06.2017 No. 374, 27.11.2017 No. 818; Orders of the deputy. The Minister of Transport of the Republic of Kazakhstan of 16.05.2025 No. 154, 01.10.2025 No. 323, 18.12.2025 No. 426)

According to subitem 34-12) of Item 2 of article 14 of the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "About rail transport" I ORDER:

1. Approve the enclosed Rules of technical operation of rail transport.

2. To committee of transport of the Ministry for Investments and Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Asavbayev A. A.) provide:

1) state registration of this order in the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

2) within ten calendar days after state registration of this order in the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan the direction it the copy on official publication in periodic printing editions and information system of law of Ad_let;

3) placement of this order on Internet resource of the Ministry for Investments and Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan and on the intranet portal of state bodies;

4) within ten working days after state registration of this order in the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan submission to Legal department of the Ministry for Investments and Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan of data on execution of the actions provided by subitems 1), 2) and 3) of Item 2 of this order.

3. To impose control of execution of this order on the supervising vice-minister of investments and development of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

4. This order becomes effective after ten calendar days after day of its first official publication.

Minister of investments and development of the Republic of Kazakhstan

A. Isekeshev

Approved by the Order of the Minister of investments and development of the Republic of Kazakhstan of April 30, 2015 No. 544

Rules of technical operation of rail transport

1. General provisions

1. These rules of technical operation of rail transport (further - Rules) are developed according to subitem 34-12) of Item 2 of article 14 of the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "About rail transport" (further - the Law) years and determine procedure for technical operation of rail transport.

2. In these rules the following terms are used:

1) the automatic locomotive alarm system - system in case of which train service on stage is performed on signals of locomotive traffic lights and separate Items are the designated borders of block sites;

2) low-active sites - sites with amount of movement of passenger and cargo trains (in the amount) according to the schedule no more than 8 couples a day;

3) distillation communication - communication for conducting office negotiations between persons on duty on railway stations and the workers performing works and being on stage;

4) stage - the part of rail line limited to adjacent stations, traveling, obgonny Items or traveling posts;

5) special railway vehicles (further - Union of Right Forces) - the self-propelled and not self-propelled rail vehicles intended for works on content, servicing, recovery and repair of the high-level railway system and sidings;

6) crew of special railway vehicles (further - crew of Union of Right Forces) - the workers appointed for management and servicing of Union of Right Forces. For management of Union of Right Forces the crew - the driver and the assistant driver or the driver and the assistant to the driver of section car is appointed (according to the maintenance instruction of the corresponding vehicle);

7) the train cargo heavyweight - the cargo train which weight for the corresponding series of locomotives on 100 tons and more exceeds the weight regulation established by the traffic schedule on the site of following of this train;

8) arrow - the part of the railroad switch consisting of frame rails, funnymen and the translated mechanism. In the presence of crosspieces with the mobile core the crosspiece also enters concept of the shooter;

9) arrow post - one or several railroad switches of not centralized management serviced by one person on duty of arrow post;

10) the arrow area - group of the adjacent arrow posts which are under control of one senior arrow post on duty;

11) the railroad switch - the device serving for transfer of railway vehicles from one way on another. Railroad switches consist of arrows, crosspieces and connecting ways between them. Crosspieces happen to the motionless or mobile core. Basic elements of crosspiece without mobile elements are the core, two usovik, two counterrails, prikrepitel and liners, joint fastenings and bolts with washers and nuts for consolidation of usovik and the core in single design in case of combined crosspieces;

12) arrow communication - communication for conducting office negotiations between the person on duty on the railway station with executive and administrative posts of the railway station concerning preparation of routes (including check of svobodnost of railway tracks and arrows) and fixing of railway rolling stock on adjacent railway tracks;

13) neutral insert - the site of contact suspension bracket between two air intervals (the isolating interfaces) on which there is no tension, providing electric isolation of the integrated sites when passing current collectors of electrorailway vehicles;

14) the block site - part of interexchange stage in case of automatic lock-out or in case of the automatic locomotive alarm system applied as independent means of the alarm system and communication, limited to traffic lights through passage (borders of block sites) or the traffic light through passage (block site border) and the entrance traffic light of the railway station, and also the output traffic light and the first passing traffic light through passage (block site border);

15) branch track - way on which when following the railway vehicles deviate on the railroad switch;

16) special track signs - borders of railway strip of branch, the index of number of arrow, sign of axis of the passenger building, signs on linear roadway buildings, reference points of the beginning and end of circular curves, and also began, the middle and the end of transitional curves, hidden constructions of road bed, the highest horizon of waters and the maximum height of wave;

17) track sign - the permanent index of profile and extent of rail lines;

18) the passenger train - the train for transportation of passengers, baggage, cargo baggage and mailings created from passenger and luggage cars;

19) passenger stopping point - the Item on stage which does not have traveling development, intended only for landing and disembarkation of passengers which is not separate Item;

20) the works manager - the responsible person on operation of railway tracks;

21) the high-speed passenger train - the passenger train handling speeds of movement from 141 kilometer per hour to 200 kilometers per hour;

22) dimension of railway vehicles - limiting cross (perpendicular axes of way) the outline in which without coming to light is located both the loaded, and empty railway vehicles established on the direct horizontal way;

23) means of automatic control of technical condition of railway vehicles on the run of the train - the equipment allowing to find and transfer in the automatic mode information to the person on duty on ahead to the lying station, the train dispatcher, the driver about availability and arrangement in the train of defective railway vehicles and type of defect;

24) the pushing locomotive - the locomotive appointed for the aid to the leading locomotive on separate stages or part of stage (in the rear of the train);

25) the warranty site - the site limited to Items of maintenance which extent is determined proceeding from need of safe passing of cars in good repair for the train;

26) stage interon point duty - the stage limited to traveling posts or traveling post and the station;

27) bias - the element of longitudinal profile of railway track having inclination to the horizontal line (rise, descent);

28) dimension of approach of structures - limiting cross (perpendicular axes of way) outline in which no parts of constructions and devices come. The exception constitutes only the devices intended for their direct interaction with railway vehicles (car decelerators in working order, contact wires with fixture details, the turning part of column in case of set of water);

29) office braking - braking by steps for reduction of speed or stop of the train in the provided place;

30) the locomotive - the railway vehicles intended for ensuring movement on railway tracks of trains or separate cars;

31) locomotive crew - the workers appointed for servicing of locomotives, and also motorvagonny trains;

32) shunting structure - group of the cars linked among themselves and to the locomotive making maneuvers. The locomotive linked to one car is also considered as shunting structure;

33) motorvagonny railway vehicles - motor and trailer cars of which the motorvagonny trains (electric trains, diesel - trains, rail buses) intended for transportation of passengers are created;

34) obgonny Item - the separate Item on two-acceptable lines having the traveling development allowing overtaking of trains and in necessary cases, transfer of the train from one main way on another;

35) arrow centralized - arrow which funnymen (and in the presence of crosspiece with the mobile core and the core) are translated by the special devices managed from one central Item;

36) arrow not centralized - arrow which funnymen are translated manually by means of the translated mechanism directly at arrow;

37) especially heavy traffic of trains - the amount of movement of passenger and cargo trains (in the amount) according to the schedule on two-acceptable sites more than 100 couples and on single-line sites - more than 48 couples a day;

38) heavy traffic of trains - the amount of movement of passenger and cargo trains (in the amount) according to the schedule on two-acceptable sites from 50 to 99 couples of trains and on single-line sites from 24 to 47 couples a day;

39) train conference circuit - communication for conducting office negotiations between the dispatcher train and persons on duty on railway stations, entering the serviced dispatching site;

40) radio blocking - system of interval regulation by train service on the basis of network of digital radio communication;

41) travel - the separate Item on single-line lines having the traveling development intended for skreshcheniye and overtaking of trains which can carry out commercial transactions;

42) the refrigerator train - the train created from refrigerated cars;

43) the safety deadlock - the way intended for the prevention of exit of railway vehicles to routes of trains;

44) long descent - descent in case of values of the steepness and extent according to appendix 1 to these rules;

45) the railway station (further - the station) - the Item which is dividing the main ways into sites, having traveling development, providing traffic regulation, handling capacity and allowing to make transactions on acceptance, departure and (or) skreshcheniye, overtaking of trains, servicing of passengers, acceptance, issue of baggage, cargo baggage, mailings and (or) loads and also shunting work;

46) the person on duty on the station - the shift assistant administrator of the station solely disposing of acceptance, departure and the omission of trains, and also other movements of railway vehicles on the main and priyemo-dispatch ways of the station (where there is no shunting dispatcher - and on other ways);

47) train interexchange communication - communication for conducting office negotiations between persons on duty on railway stations of the neighboring railway stations;

48) interexchange stage - the stage limited to stations, traveling and obgonny Items;

49) station post of centralization - post at the railway station in which management of group of centralized arrows and signals is concentrated;

50) brake way - the distance overcome by train from the moment of impact on devices and devices for control of the brake system including operations of the crane of emergency brake application (emergency brake), to complete stop;

51) railway and construction machines - one of types of Union of Right Forces having one or several working bodies performing works on construction, all types of repairs, content and maintenance of constructions and devices of rail transport;

52) technological window - time during which train service on stage, separate ways of stage or the station for production of repair construction works stops;

53) loading dimension - limiting cross (perpendicular axes of way) outline in which, without coming to light, the load (taking into account packaging and fixture) on open railway vehicles is placed in case of stay it on the direct horizontal way;

54) contact network - set of the wires, designs and the equipment providing transfer of electrical energy from traction substations to current collectors of electrorailway vehicles;

55) the national operator of infrastructure - the legal entity whose controlling stock is owned by National railway company, performing operation, the content, upgrade, construction of the high-level railway system and rendering services to the high-level railway system;

56) the catching deadlock - the way intended for stop of the train which lost control or parts of the train in case of movement;

57) the economic train - the train created from the operating locomotive or the special self-propelled railway vehicles used as the locomotive, cars allocated for special and technical needs of the railway organization, the special self-propelled and not self-propelled railway vehicles intended for performance of works on content, servicing and repair of constructions and devices of the high-level railway system;

58) emergency brake application - the braking used in the cases requiring immediate stop of the train by use of the maximum brake force;

59) the safety control - the device ensuring traffic safety of locomotives and motorvagonny railway vehicles, and also preventing emergency and preemergency situations;

60) the parking brake - the device with the manual or automatic drive located on unit of railway rolling stock and intended for its deduction on the parking from spontaneous leaving and also for forced emergency stop in the presence of the manual or automatic drive in unit of railway rolling stock;

61) Talgo cars - the cars constructed on technology of the Patentes Talgo S.L company.;

62) the mobile block site - part of interexchange stage in case of radio blocking applied to measurement of distance between in passing following trains on stage;

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