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ERA Railway Terminology Collection

Last updated: 12 March 2026

The ERA Railway Terminology Collection gathers terms and abbreviations that are contained in the EU legal framework for railway, technical documents produced by bodies which are engaged in the development of important evolution in the railway system and other relevant glossaries.

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ERA Railway Terminology Collection is a consultation tool, developed to support the sharing of information through the actors involved in running the Single European Railway Area (SERA). The responsibility for the correctness, completeness, accuracy, or reliability of the information in ERA RTC lays upon the authors of the definitions, as they derive from reference documents having their own preparation and approval flow. Users cannot call ERA liable for the use they make of the content. Please consider that when the collection is exported (.csv) and then printed or converted, it becomes uncontrolled.
Term	Context	Document Type	Origin document
Goods carried by rail	EU Policy	Glossary	Glossary for transport statistics - 6TH EDITION 2026	Latest release
Goods in transit by rail throughout	Withdrawn	Glossary	Glossary for transport statistics - 6TH EDITION 2026	Latest release
Goods loaded	EU Policy	Glossary	Eurostat Transport Glossary on web release November 2024
Goods loaded on rail	EU Policy	Glossary	Glossary for transport statistics - 6TH EDITION 2026	Latest release
Goods rail transport link	EU Policy	Glossary	Glossary for transport statistics - 6TH EDITION 2026	Latest release
Goods road motor vehicle	EU Policy	Glossary	Eurostat Transport Glossary on web release November 2024
Goods unloaded from rail	EU Policy	Glossary	Glossary for transport statistics - 6TH EDITION 2026	Latest release
GOSIP	International Standard	EU Technical Document	CEN CENELEC ABBRAVIATION ACRONYM 2025
Governance Entity	Withdrawn	Application Guide	TAP TSI Annex B.52 Reservation application_guide - version 1.0 of 06/12/2013	Latest release
Governance Entity	Withdrawn	Application Guide	TAP TSI Annex B.54 Indirect Fulfilment application_guide - version 1.0 of 06/12/2013	Latest release
Governance Entity	Withdrawn	Application Guide	TAP TSI Annex B.55 PRM assistance application_guide - version 1.0 of 06/12/2013	Latest release
Governing the particular subject concerned	International Relations	Decision	2013/103/EU: Council Decisionof 16 June 2011 on the signing and conclusion of the Agreement between the European Union and the Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail on the Accession of the European Union to the Convention concerning International Carriage by Rail (COTIF) of 9 May 1980, as amended by the Vilnius Protocol of 3 June 1999
GovTech	Interoperability	Regulation	Regulation EU) 2024/903 of the European Parliament and of the Concil of 13 March 2024 laying down measures for a high level of public sector interoperability across the Union.
GP	International Standard	ISO	ISO 3166 (en) - Online Browsing Platform (OBP) Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions — Part 1: Country code
GPA	International Standard	EU Technical Document	CEN CENELEC ABBRAVIATION ACRONYM 2025
GPRS	ERTMS	Technical Document	ERTMS/ETCS - Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations - version : 4.0.0 - date 05/07/2023
GPRS	Infrastructure	Application Guide	Guide on the application of the common specifications of the register of Infrastructure - v. 3.1.0 on 31.03.2025
GPRS for ETCS	Infrastructure	Regulation	Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/777 of 16 May 2019 on the common specifications for the register of railway infrastructure and repealing Implementing Decision 2014/880/EU
GPS	Infrastructure	Application Guide	Guide on the application of the common specifications of the register of Infrastructure - v. 3.1.0 on 31.03.2025
GPSR	International Standard	EU Technical Document	CEN CENELEC ABBRAVIATION ACRONYM 2025

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