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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
Training centre	SMS Safety Culture Human and Organisational Factor	Directive	Directive 2007/59/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2007 on the certification of train drivers operating locomotives and trains on the railway system in the Community
Trainset	Vehicles / VA	TSI	Commission Regulation (EU) No 1302/2014 of 18 November 2014 concerning a technical specification for interoperability relating to the rolling stock — locomotives and passenger rolling stock subsystem of the rail system in the European Union
Trainset	RNE Glossary	Glossary	RNE Glossary - NS_CID_Glossary_2025
Trainset	International Standard	ISO	ISO/DIS 22575(en) Railway applications — General terms and definitions
Trainset	EU Policy	Glossary	Glossary for transport statistics - 6TH EDITION 2026	Latest release
Tram	EU Policy	Glossary	Glossary for transport statistics - 6TH EDITION 2026	Latest release
Tram (streetcar)	EU Policy	Regulation	Regulation (EU) 2018/643 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 April 2018 on rail transport statistics
Tram line	EU Policy	Glossary	Glossary for transport statistics - 6TH EDITION 2026	Latest release
Tram system	International Standard	ISO	ISO/DIS 22575(en) Railway applications — General terms and definitions
Tram vehicle	International Standard	ISO	ISO/DIS 22575(en) Railway applications — General terms and definitions
Tram-train	EU Policy	Glossary	Glossary for transport statistics - 6TH EDITION 2026	Latest release
Tram-train	Vehicles / VA	TSI	Commission Regulation (EU) No 1302/2014 of 18 November 2014 concerning a technical specification for interoperability relating to the rolling stock — locomotives and passenger rolling stock subsystem of the rail system in the European Union
Tram-train	Interoperability	Directive	Directive (EU) 2016/797 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2016 on the interoperability of the rail system within the European Union (recast)
Trans European Network for Transport (TEN-T)	RNE Glossary	Glossary	RNE Glossary - NS_CID_Glossary_2025
Trans-European digital public services	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.
Trans-European Network (TEN) classification of track	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
Trans-European networks (TENs)	EU Policy	Glossary	Eurostat Transport Glossary on web release November 2024
Trans-European rail network	Withdrawn	TSI	Commission Regulation (EU) No 454/2011 of 5 May 2011 on the technical specification for interoperability relating to the subsystem ‘telematics applications for passenger services’ of the trans-European rail system	Latest release
Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T)	Infrastructure	Glossary	European Rail Infrastructure Managers
Trans-shipment	EU Policy	Glossary	Eurostat Transport Glossary on web release November 2024

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