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86.04 - M w a y or tramway maintenance or service vehicles, whether or not self-propelled (for example, workshops, cranes, ballast tampers, trackliners, testing coaches and track inspection vehicles). The vehicles covered by this heading, whether or not self- ropelled, are specially designed for use, e.g., in the installation, servicing and maintenance o the permanent way and structures alongs~dethe track. i? The heading includes : (1) Workshop vans and trucks fitted with tools, machine-tools, electric generators, lifting machinery Cjacks, hoists, etc.), welding equipment, chains, cables, etc. (2) Breakdown and other crane-vehicles; locomotive or coach lifting crane-vehicles; crane-vehicles for lifiing or placing rails; crane-vehicles for loading and unloading at station platforms. ' (3) Winch trucks. (4) Trucks fitted with special equipment for cleaning or tamping ballast. (5) Trucks fitted with machinery for mixing cement for use on the track (for the foundations of electric cable pylons, etc.). (6) Trucks for calibrating weigh-bridges. (7) Scaffold trucks for the installation and maintenance of electric cables. (8) Spraying vans for weed-killing. (9) Self-propelled vehicles for track maintenance (in particular, railway trackliners), equipped with one or more engines which not only power the working machines mounted thereon (track-setters, ballast tampers, etc.), and pro el the vehicle while work is in progress but also enable it to travel rapidly along the traci, as a self-propelled unit, when the w o r h g machines are not in operation. (10) Railway testing coaches fitted with special equipment such as automatic instruments for checking the workin of the engine, brakes, etc. (for example, for measuring the load hauled, detectin de ects in the rails, track base, bridges, etc.); track checlung coaches which record, w ilst travelling, any track irregularity. f (11) Mechanically-pro elled track inspection trolleys, including motorised rail-cycles, used by the railway staff or track maintenance. They are usually fitted with internal combustion engines, are self-propelled, and provide a rapid means of transport both for maintenance personnel and for materials to be carried or picked up along the track. ! (12) Non-mechanically-pro elled track inspection trolleys, including rail-cycles, used by railway inspection sta (e.g., hand- or foot-propelled types). tP When mounted on simple wheeled platforms and not on true railway or tramway underframes (not constituting, therefore, true railway or tramway rollin -stock), machines, measurin instruments and other c uipment, are excluded h r n this heading and fa1 in other more specific hea8ngs (beadings 84.25, 81.26,84.28,8429,84.30, etc.). P
1.- This Chapter does not cover : (a) Railway or tramway sleepers of wood or of concrete, or concrete guide-track sections for hovertrains (heading 44.06 or 68.10); (b) Railway or tramway track construction material of iron or steel of heading 73.02; or (c) Electrical signalling, safety or traffic control equipment of heading 85.30. 2.- Heading 86.07 applies, inter alia, to : (a) Axles, wheels, wheel sets (running gear), metal tyres, hoops and hubs and other parts of wheels; (b) Frames, underframes, bogies and bissel-bogies; (c) Axle boxes; brake gear; (d) Buffers for rolling-stock; hooks and other coupling gear and corridor connections; (e) Coachwork. 3.- Subject to the provisions of Note 1 above, heading 86.08 applies, inter alia, to : (a) Assembled track, turntables, platform buffers, loading gauges; (b) Semaphores, mechanical signal discs, level crossing control gear, signal and point controls, and other mechanical (including electro-mechanical) signalling, safety or traffic control equipment, whether or not fitted for electric lighting, for railways, tramways, roads, inland waterways, parking facilities, port installations or airfields.