CHAPTER - 86

RAILWAY OR TRAMWAY LOCOMOTIVES, ROLLING-STOCK AND PARTS THEREOF;RAILWAY OR TRAMWAY TRACK FIXTURES AND FITTINGS AND PARTS THEREOF;MECHANICAL (INLCUDING ELECTRO-MECHANICAL) TARIFFIC SIGNALLINGEQUIPMENT OF ALL KINDS

Notes :

1) This Chapter does not cover;

a) Railway or tramway sleepers of wood or of concrete, or concrete guide-track sections for hovertrains (heading 4406 or 6810)

b) Railway or tramway track construction material of iron or steel of heading 7302 ; or

c) Electrical signalling, safety or traffic control equipment of heading 8530.

2) Heading 8607 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;

a) Coachwork.

3) Subject to the provisions of Note 1 above, heading 8608 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.