18 Aug 2025
AS 7520.3 Body Structural Requirements – Passenger
The closing date for comments – Thursday 16 October 2025
The AS 7520.3 Body Structural Requirements – Passenger draft is now open for Public Consultation.
How this product helps the rail industry
This Standard aims to minimise risks to train crew and members of the general public in the event of collisions or derailments.
AS 7520.3 describes the requirements for the structural strength of railway passenger rolling stock, which prescribe the minimum structural integrity level of the vehicle bodies to ensure safe performance under normal operating conditions and extreme operating conditions. It is applicable to passenger rolling stock and crew cars.
About
Significant changes to passenger vehicle structural requirements and crashworthiness have occurred since this Standard was last published.
This review of AS 7520.3 has analysed and incorporated changes associated with technological improvements, contemporary international standards, safety, lessons learned from incidents/accidents and/or engineering improvements.
The review has considered harmonisation and interoperability requirements and well as whole of life asset management frameworks as appropriate.
How to contribute
AS 7520.3 Body Structural Requirements – Passenger will be available for public consultation for 60 days. All interested parties are encouraged to provide comments during this time.
It is available to download here.
To make comments on the draft, please use the commenting tools in Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Reader to comment in-line with the text. If needed you can find instructions here.
NOTE: There is a recognised fault with some versions of Adobe Acrobat where a message displays ‘This is restricted file – The owner of this file has locked it from receiving comments or other changes.’ This message is incorrect and does not prevent you from adding comments to the PDF and saving the file prior to emailing to RISSB.
Please return your PDF with comments to [email protected] by Thursday 16 October 2025.
As the rail industry’s accredited Standards Development Organisation (SDO), RISSB continues to collaborate with government, rail operators and industry leaders to improve the efficiency and harmonisation of the Australia and New Zealand’s rail network, ensuring national interoperability, safety and sustainability into the future.